Oh, X-Men, what are we going to do with you?
No, seriously; what is Marvel Studios going to do with you when the time comes to rope you into the Marvel Cinematic Universe? I ask not only as a longtime fan of this colorful cast of heroes, but as someone who really wouldn’t mind a world where fans gave more attention to the now rather than the later. As fun as speculation can be, the fact of the matter is that we’ll get there when we get there.
Indeed, despite the MCU having only scratched the surface of its multiverse shenanigans, some folks are left wishing they could pull a Days of Future Past and jump ahead to the mutant era (complete with the dystopian brushes, probably), meaning it’s just another day in the office for r/marvelstudios.
As much as we’d like to see Anya Taylor-Joy don the Magik mantle once again as the original poster suggests, there’s a time and a place for everything. The last time Marvel Studios rushed something, we got Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, so the lesson should be long since learned, so to speak.
One responder pointed out just how much care Marvel is going to need to put into their iteration of the mutants; when you’re adapting characters that were born out of a response to the civil rights movement, slow and steady wins the race there.
On top of that, the Marvel pipeline is pretty congested as is; any premature leaps in production would make for a one-way ticket to structural dissonance.
In any case, with the X-Men ’97 animated series due on Disney Plus later this year, mutant-hungry fans will be eating well before long anyway, making these fretful musings all the more strange, quite frankly. Then again, this is 2023; if your content isn’t part of a shared universe, are you really making anything?