'They're Bringing the Heat': Marvel Fans Hyped for X-Men Reboot Casting as Adam Driver Rumors Swirl

Marvel fans are celebrating the latest X-Men casting rumors, which suggest that Star Wars sequel trilogy standout Adam Driver volition play a caller incarnation of Magneto.

Famously played by Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellen (the second of which volition reprise the relation 1 much clip successful the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday), Magneto is simply a cardinal subordinate of the X-Men beingness and a pivotal casting for Marvel to get close arsenic it looks to a caller procreation of actors to instrumentality connected the comics' acquainted characters.

Discussion of Driver playing Magneto has been fuelled connected societal media by precocious illustration Marvel tipster MyTimetoShineHello and DC root ApcHorseman, who was the archetypal to correctly assertion Scarlett Johansson had joined The Batman Part 2 and that Josh Brolin had been offered the relation of Hal Jordan successful Lanterns.

"He carried sequel trilogy," wrote Marvel instrumentality merscever successful a lengthy reddit thread discussing Driver arsenic Magneto. "He tin transportation mcu reboot." "Well I accidental helium got plentifulness of signifier successful his Star Wars trilogy gesturing with his hands and acting similar he's telekinetically controlling metallic objects," noted sidv81. "If the remainder of the X-Men castings are astatine this caliber, motion maine up," added Kazrules.

X-Men casting reports are present hotting up arsenic Marvel begins enactment connected its fresh, "youth-oriented" reboot that's acceptable to debut pursuing 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars. The task is being led by Thunderbolts/The New Avengers manager Jake Schreier, and is seen arsenic a lynchpin of Marvel's adjacent saga.

Of course, determination is already wide content among fans that we've already seen the casting of 1 caller X-Men quality — arsenic galore are convinced that Sadie Sink's concealed relation successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day volition beryllium revealed arsenic Jean Grey. Last week, Obsession prima Inde Navarette acceptable tongues wagging erstwhile she revealed that she precocious met with Jake Schreier and was funny successful a Marvel role, prompting Marvel fans to statesman discussing which subordinate of the mutant squad she volition apt play (Mystique?).

While Schreier's movie isn't expected until 2028 astatine the earliest, it's wide Marvel already arsenic its eyes connected the MCU's aboriginal pursuing the extremity of its existent Multiverse Saga, which is acceptable to beryllium bookended by Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. These movies volition not lone headdress disconnected the MCU's current, alternatively uneven era, but besides bring successful bequest characters from the Fox X-Men beingness successful a last send-off.

All of this paves the mode for the adjacent incarnation of X-Men to consciousness wholly different, portion besides presumably capable to acceptable people into the MCU's continuity. Marvel antecedently confirmed that Avengers: Secret Wars would enactment arsenic thing of a "reset" for the MCU (don't telephone it a reboot), allowing its beingness to diagnostic caller versions of classical characters — specified arsenic the X-Men — interacting with the surviving members of its main cast. Could we spot Driver arsenic Magneto successful Secret Wars? And could Marvel statesman confirming X-Men formed members arsenic aboriginal arsenic this Comic-Con? We don't person agelong to find out.

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