'Thunderbolts*' director Jake Schreier is in talks to return to Marvel to direct the 'X-Men' reboot. After 'Thunderbolts*' garnered some of the best reviews for Marvel in quite a few years, sources confirm that Schreier is engaged in early talks for the 'X-Men' gig.
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00:00Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier is in talks to return to Marvel to direct the X-Men reboot.
00:07After Thunderbolts garnered some of the best reviews for Marvel in quite a few years,
00:11sources confirm that Schreier is engaged in early talks for the X-Men gig.
00:15Michael Leslie, a writer on The Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,
00:19is pending the script, with Marvel's Kevin Feige producing the feature as usual.
00:24Marvel has been quietly moving ahead on finding a director for the currently untitled X-Men film.
00:28Talk of a director heated up this week.
00:31This development finally puts a new X-Men movie from Marvel on a track to viability.
00:352000's X-Men was one of the films that ushered in the modern comic book movie era.
00:39It also led to a lucrative franchise until it ran out of steam with 2019's Dark Phoenix.
00:44As for Schreier's Thunderbolts, the film opened to a solid $74.3 million,
00:49but more importantly scored strong audience exit scores and strong reviews,
00:54helping Marvel turn a downward slide in the opposite direction.
00:57It's kind of strange that it's all over now.
00:59No one's coming to save the day.
01:02I think we are.
01:03We can be the ones that are coming.
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