Hot off the Phase 4 MCU news at San Diego Comic Con 2019, IGN’s Terri Schwartz talked to Kevin Feige about one of the biggest teases of the Marvel Studios panel: the mention of the X-Men.
Rather, Feige referred to them as “mutants” on stage, so we started by clarifying why he didn’t use the proper team name, “X-Men.”
“‘Mutants’ and ‘X-Men’ are interchangeable. I just said ‘mutants,’” Feige explained.
We also questioned Feige on how they’ll be approaching the X-Men for the MCU.
“Whatever we do will be quite different than what’s been done before,” Feige said.
Watch the full interview in the video player above.
It seems obvious Marvel would present the X-Men differently given the state of the MCU, but now we have official word that things won’t be much like what we’ve seen over the years in the Fox movies. Those films often put Wolverine in the starring role and, barring that, largely focused on the relationship between frenemies Professor X and Magneto. With audiences having seen those elements on the big screen since the first X-Men movie in 2000, it’s likely that Fiege will take the X-franchise in a new direction.
Source: IGN.com Marvel’s Kevin Feige Says MCU X-Men Will Be 'Quite Different' Than Fox Movies