{"id":869841,"date":"2026-10-03T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869841\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:30:09","slug":"x-mens-christopher-abbott-admits-he-hasnt-read-script-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869841\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;X-Men&#8217;s Christopher Abbott Admits He Hasn&#8217;t Read Script Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlthough Charles Xavier has the power to read minds, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/christopher-abbott\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christopher-abbott\" data-tag=\"christopher-abbott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Abbott<\/a> is being kept in the dark about his next big role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe actor, who was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/x-men-christopher-abbott-adam-driver-1237012957\/\">cast as Professor X<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/marvel-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel-studios\" data-tag=\"marvel-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel Studios<\/a>\u2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/x-men\/\" id=\"auto-tag_x-men\" data-tag=\"x-men\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X-Men<\/a> movie, recently noted he\u2019s \u201cvery much\u201d excited to get to work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jake-schreier\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jake-schreier\" data-tag=\"jake-schreier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Schreier<\/a>-helmed superhero movie, despite still having not seen a script.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI haven\u2019t read anything yet. Nothing,\u201d Abbott told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EntertainmentTonight\/videos\/what-excites-christopher-abbott-most-about-joining-x-men\/1605897724355598\/\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not even being coy. It\u2019s true, I haven\u2019t read anything. But I\u2019m excited to work with Jake Schreier, I think he\u2019s a great director, and that cast is really good. I can\u2019t wait. I love X-Men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTaking over the role of Charles Xavier\/Professor X from Sir Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/x-men-christopher-abbott-adam-driver-1237012957\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Abbott\u2019s casting was announced<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAbbott joins Adam Driver as Nathaniel Millbury\/Mister Sinister, Inde Navarrette as Rogue, Maya Boyd as Storm, Kit Connor as Cyclops, Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost and Asa Germann as Angel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tScheduled to premiere May 5, 2028 in theaters, Marvel tapped Schreier to direct X-Men last May after his previous <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mcu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mcu\" data-tag=\"mcu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MCU<\/a> title Thunderbolts* premiered. Beef creator Lee Sung Jin and The Bear showrunner Joanna Calo are writing the script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Charles Xavier has the power to read minds, Christopher Abbott is being kept in the dark about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[79984,88,251700,15078,18833,206,9616],"class_list":["post-869841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-christopher-abbott","tag-entertainment","tag-jake-schreier","tag-marvel-studios","tag-mcu","tag-movies","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}