Kevin Feige on the future plans for the MCU

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In a wide-ranging conversation with press on Friday, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige confirmed that, following the events of 2027’s “Avengers: Secret Wars,” the company will recast the super-powered mutants for its upcoming “X-Men” movie directed by Jake Schreier (“Thunderbolts*”).

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In future films, however, X-Men characters who appeared in previous movies will be played by new actors, along with mutants making their big screen debut. The decision echoes changes in the composition of the Marvel comics following the 2015 “Secret Wars” storyline, which involved multiple timelines collapsing and re-converging, mixing up the characters of the main Marvel timeline in the process.

“We’re utilizing that [story] not just to round out the stories we’ve been telling post-‘Endgame,’ just as importantly — and you can look at the at the ‘Secret Wars’ comics for where that takes you — it very, very much sets us up for the future,” Feige said. “‘Endgame,’ literally, was about endings. ‘Secret Wars’ is about is about beginnings.”

But Feige was also careful not to characterize the changes as a “reboot”; instead, the executive said “Secret Wars” will serve as a “reset” for the MCU.

“Reboot is a scary word,” he said. “Reboot can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Reset, singular timeline — we’re thinking along those lines.” Later, he added, “‘X-Men’ is where that will happen next.”

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“It’s a seven-year plan,” teases Feige, “I think it goes to 2032.”

“It’s on magnets, it can move around.”

While several Marvel projects post Avengers: Endgame have dovetailed between TV series and films, for Feige, it was important to have the Fantastic Four be contained in their own world sans any callbacks to the Avengers‘ blip or other verse characters.

“It’s a no homework required go-see-the movie. It’s literally not connected to anything that was made before,” says Feige, “It kicks off phase six.”

“There were a lot of left turns and surprises that happened over the last seven or eight years,” Feige continues, “A positive one was to finally have those characters back and the X-Men.”

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Feige revealed on Friday that while there were four versions of Blade in the works, two of them period (one of them set in the 1930s), “we landed on modern day and that’s what we’re focusing on.”

On pausing Blade after the exit of two filmmakers, Yann Demange, exit and then assam Tariq’s departure, Feige says “We didn’t want to put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires.”

“You can start and have a good script and make it a great script through production, but we didn’t feel confident we could do that on Blade,” he continues, “We didn’t want to do that to Mahershala and didn’t want to do that to us.”

In the wake of the success of his own vampire movie, Sinners, one reporter wondered whether Ryan Coogler would get to take a crack at directing Blade. Feige says there’s no plans, rather the director remains committed to Black Panther 3.

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