By September 2023, Marvel was already searching for writers to start working on an X-Men movie. Then, in May 2024, Michael Lesslie was chosen to write the script, and his role was officially confirmed ...

Back at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige spilled the beans, saying mutants would join the MCU and that the X-Men would get a fresh take, different from the old Fox movies.