Marvel Taps Writers for X-Men Reboot Script

Marvel Studios has tapped writers Lee Sung Jin and Joanna Calo to pen the script for its upcoming X-Men reboot in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, director Jake Schreier revealed in a recent interview. The project, which marks the studio's first major on-screen introduction of the iconic mutant team, remains in early development stages, with no cast or release date announced yet.

Schreier, who is also directing the 2025 film Thunderbolts, shared the update while discussing the second season of Netflix's Beef, which he executive produced and directed. Both Jin, the creator of Beef, and Calo, a showrunner on The Bear who contributed to Beef and Thunderbolts, previously collaborated with Schreier on those projects. "We're still developing," Schreier told Collider. "One of the exciting things that's tying into Beef is that Sonny [Lee Sung Jin] and Joanna Calo both worked on this season... They have come in and are working on a draft right now, which is really exciting to be able to put that group of people together again."

The script represents a rework of earlier drafts. Michael Lesslie, known for writing The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, had been attached to the...