Rumor: Title of Marvel’s X-Men movie revealed?

We all know that Disney is going to make a movie (or a TV show) about the X-Men sooner or later. When Disney bought 20th Century Fox in 2019, it acquired the screen rights to Marvel’s famous mutants, meaning they can finally bring them into the wider MCU. It’s only a matter of time.

What we don’t know is how it’s going to happen, although of course we have ideas. For a while, it looked like WandaVision might provide some answers, especially with X-Men movie veteran Evan Peters showing up as Quicksilver, but that ended up being a fake-out.

But you know that Marvel boss Kevin Feige, who is organized enough to have kept the MCU under control as it expands into a media empire, has plans for how to bring in the X-Men. And now, The Illuminerdi thinks it knows how. According to their sources, Feige is working on an X-Men movie simply called The Mutants.

Now, let’s pause here to underline that this is a rumor. The Illuminerdi specializes in these kinds of scoops; sometimes they’re right, and sometime they’re wrong, but it’s intriguing enough to be worth talking about.

Will the X-Men make their MCU debut in The Mutants?

Honestly, I’d be surprised if Marvel introduced the X-Men through a movie rather than a TV show. They’ve really been ramping up their Disney+ production of late. We’ve already had WandaVision, and by the time the year is over we’ll also get The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, Ms. Marvel and Hawkeye. And beyond that we’ve got She-Hulk, Moon Knight, Secret Invasion, Ironheart, Armor Wars and more beyond that. The X-Men has a ton of iconic characters (Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Rogue, Gambit, etc…), so I figure they’d be a better fit for an ensemble show than a two-hour movie.

But I didn’t turn Marvel into a billion-dollar movie-making machine, so what do I know? We’ll be keeping our ears to the ground to see if there’s anything to this rumor.

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