13 movies and $5.8 billion: this iconic sci-fi saga is coming back to theaters soon

While Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine will return to theaters in Deadpool & Wolverine, which hits theaters on July 24th, Marvel has announced a new X-Men movie.

According to DeadlineMichael Leslie, who is already working on The Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Serpent and Songbird, is in talks to write a new X-Men movie. American media specify that the film is only in the development stage. The project does not yet have any actors or directors, and no release date has been set.

The announcement comes on the heels of the success of the animated series X-Men ’97 and the revelation of several mutants in Sean Levy’s film starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.

Deadpool’s third adventure will indeed see Wade Wilson and Logan wandering between worlds. A synopsis for the film revealed last weekend explained that the two heroes will “shake up the MCU franchise.” The film is set to feature several mutants and superheroes from the MCU.

A return has been announced to The Marvels

This return of the X-Men, 6 years after the last opus X-Men: Dark Phoenix (if you do not count the spin-off movie The New Mutants, which was released in 2020), was already announced in the post-credits scene. wonder. Therefore, this statement is not surprising to most frequent viewers.

Warning, the rest of this article contains spoilers for The Marvels

For reference, at the end of The Marvels, Monica Rambo (Teyona Paris) sacrifices herself to close the space-time rift opened by Dar-Ben. He will be on the other side, but not dead.

During the post-credits scene, we find him in a hospital bed. When he wakes up, he sees – what he believes to be his dead mother, played by Lashana Lynch – at his bedside. But the latter does not recognize him. The Doctor then enters the room and when he turns around, the audience realizes that it is Hank McCoy, aka The Beast, a mutant who has appeared several times in the X-Men films. Also Kelsey Grammer, who already played the role in X-Men: The Last Stand, plays her in The Marvels.

Monica Rambo landed in a parallel universe: the X-Men universe. The information is confirmed at the end of the sequence when Fove leaves the room and specifies that he is going to talk to Charles and that we see a door with an X etched into it. We find out that Lashana Lynch plays Binary, Captain Marvel, in this universe. The energy is double.

Monica Rambo in X-Men?

Teyonah Parris, Lashana Lynch and Kelsey Grammer That’s why he might end up in the casting for the next X-Men movie. But a future release Deadpool & Wolverine It should teach us more.

Consists of 13 films (X-Men (2000), X-Men 2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), X-Men: Inception (2011) Wolverine: The Fight For Immortals (2013), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Deadpool (2016), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Logan (2017), Deadpool 2 (2018), X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) And spin-off The New Mutants (2020) X-Men saga earned $5.8 billion at the international box office, with Deadpool 2 the highest-grossing film in the franchise at $785 million worldwide.