Marvel Studios has announced a host of new actors for its X-Men reboot – including Stranger Things star Sadie Sink and Adam Driver.<\/p>\n
The stars taking on the roles of seven characters in the new movie were unveiled at Disney’s D23 fan event in the US on Friday.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the event, Sink told the crowd it was “so wonderful” to be there and to “finally talk about the character after months of speculation”<\/p>\n
Star Wars actor Driver joined via video-link as his character was revealed as the villainous Nathaniel Milbury, who will also been known as Mr Sinister.<\/p>\n
He told fans he’d been talking “for years about maybe joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I think we finally found the perfect film at the perfect time”.<\/p>\n
The new X-Men film, which is currently untitled, will be directed by Jake Schreier and is out in cinemas in May 2028.<\/p>\n
Sink will play Jean Grey, a character revealed to fans when she appeared in Spiderman: Brand New Day last month.<\/p>\n
The other stars announced for X-Men were Heartstopper actor Kit Connor as Cyclops, Christopher Abbott as Professor Charles Xavier or X, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, Inde Navarrette as Rogue and Maya Boyd as Storm.<\/p>\n
Professor X has previously been played by Sir Patrick Stewart in other Marvel movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.<\/p>\n
Stewart will also appear as Professor X in the much-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday which is out later this year, before Abbott plays the role in X-Men.<\/p>\n
The last X-Men movie Dark Phoenix, which featured the likes of Jennifer Lawrence and Sophie Turner, came out in June 2019.<\/p>\n
It was released under 20th Century Fox, but earlier that year, Disney, which owns Marvel, acquired the rights to the franchise.<\/p>\n
Speaking at D23, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said there was a lot more X-Men casting news to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Studios has announced a host of new actors for its X-Men reboot – including Stranger Things star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}