The Marvel Cinematic Universe is already massive, and over the next few years it’s going to get much bigger.
Marvel Studios will be expanding the MCU by adding X-Men characters who were previously unavailable for use due to Fox having the rights to the characters.
Fox’s X-Men film universe will be wrapping up, and it seems likely that Marvel Studios will be casting new actors to play their version of the X-Men.
James McAvoy has played Charles Xavier in several X-Men related films, but he recently explained to Yahoo why he’s unsure that the X-Men are a good fit for the MCU.
“I don’t know if the X-Men could go into the Marvel universe, I’m not sure. Maybe they could? But I think what’s different about the Avengers universe anyway is you’ve only got a couple of superheroes in the world. There’s a good amount, but there’s like a couple of football teams’ worth, you know what I mean? Whereas in the X-Men world you’re potentially saying there are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of [superheroes] and the social implication of that is different.”
At this point it’s not clear how the X-Men will be integrated, how the existence of mutants will be explained in a film universe that’s been around for over a decade. But regardless of how it all plays out, most fans seem to agree that it will be exciting to see mutants and Avengers on the big screen someday.
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