So, Marvel has the X-Men back for Marvel Studios.
But there's a problem.
The entire MCU timeline has been planned and designed to work around not having them. The Fantastic Four are less of a challenge - do another prequel movie a la Captain Marvel, then have them get lost in the multiverse until the current time. Homecoming already gave us a shot of the Baxter Building.
(Of course, the side question there, is whether the MCU can, in fact, break the Fantastic Four movie jinx. If anyone can...)
The X-Men are an entire other matter. We have already rewritten Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver to not be mutants and replaced the mutants with the Inhumans in pretty much every other way.
If there have been X-Men all along, the big question is: What have they been doing?
Short of using the Infinity Stones to rewrite reality, there is no solid answer.
Marvel will be keeping Deadpool off in its own continuity, and the rumors indicate the upcoming X-23 movie will also be in that continuity, placing Logan firmly there (as was hinted at in Deadpool 2). It's likely that genre risks such as superhero horror movies will be in this studio, marketed as adult movies and mostly R-rated.
But that doesn't answer the question of how you introduce Magneto and Xavier into an established world without retcons or ruining their back stories. (Magneto's age is an easy fix. He's been de-aged in the comics before).
Or doing some kind of Crisis like thing, but that's far too much of a DC schtick.
Thoughts?
"Short of using the Infinity Stones to rewrite reality, there is no solid answer."
ReplyDelete$5 says that's exactly what they will do.