Marvel appears to be readying the production of its X-Men reboot for a shoot in late 2025, with a potential release in 2027.
As Deadpool & Wolverine continues to break assorted box office records, co-star Ryan Reynolds has described the movie as “farewell” to the “fun, weird, uneven and risky world of 20th Century Fox.”
Following Disney’s acquisition of Fox in 2019, it was inevitable that the X-Men franchise would be rebooted at some point, and it now sounds as though we have a timeframe for that reboot. Production Weekly (as reported by World Of Reel) now has an X-Men movie scheduled to begin filming in “late 2025.”
The appearance of that shoot window emerged roughly around the time that Disney put out an updated version of its release schedule (via Variety), which included a mix of movies previously announced at San Diego Comic-Con and a few unexpected ones – among them ‘Untitled Marvel’ films set to appear in US cinemas on the 23rd July 2027 and the 5th November 2027. It’s just possible that the new X-Men will be one of these.
Elsewhere on the list you’ll find Avengers: Doomsday, out on the 1st May 2026 and replacing the outgoing Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Then there’s the perma-troubled Blade reboot, which is still scheduled for 7th November 2025 – despite having no director.
As for X-Men, the franchise hasn’t seen a new entry since the critical and financial disappointment of 2019’s Dark Phoenix, another movie with a troubled production history. The last we heard, screenwriter Michael Lesslie was in talks to write a new X-Men film for Marvel, while Jordan Peele was also reportedly among the filmmakers offered the directing gig. Peele is said to have turned it down.
After a somewhat moribund patch in terms of box office and fan reception, Deadpool & Wolverine appeared to have put the spring back in Marvel’s step, at least if its bombastic show at last month’s Comic-Con is anything to go by. Director Julius Onah’s Captain America: Brave New World and Jake Schreier’s Thunderbolts* are set to end the fifth phase of Marvel’s cinematic universe in 2025.
Time will tell whether phase six, which will begin with The Fantastic Four: First Steps next July, will see the studio on more consistent creative form.
