For years now, Marvel Studios has been working in the background setting the stage for the X-Men to arrive. Ever since Disney acquired Fox, wheels have been in motion for the mutants to change the DNA of the MCU – and while little has been publicly announced, we do know one all-important detail: the man in charge of directing the eventual MCU X-Men film is Jake Schreier , the filmmaker who recently brought us Marvel’s Thunderbolts* (aka, the New Avengers).

As he tells Empire , Schreier is starting to get the wheels spinning on his X-adventure. “I can’t say anything about it, but we’ve started work on X-Men , and that’s obviously very, very exciting,” he confirms. And with Thunderbolts* being a team-up story, there’s much he’s learned about making an ensemble Marvel movie.

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