Marvel's New X-Men Movie: Everything We Know So Far

Seven years after Disney absorbed Fox's mutant universe, the X-Men finally have a release date, a director, and a full cast standing shoulder to shoulder on a D23 stage.

Currently placed as an untitled film among the first releases of Marvel's post-Secret Wars era, the new X-Men movie is expected to pick up where Spider-Man: Brand New Day left off-- with Jean Grey on a bus toward Xavier's school in upstate New York. The bigger news, though, is who's playing who.

Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming X-Men movie that's in the Marvel's pipeline. From release date to cast and crew, read about X-Men movie below.

Who Are The Cast Members of the New X-Men Film?

Sadie Sink leads as Jean Grey, a role only formally confirmed at D23 after months of online guessing that began before she'd signed on officially. Kit Connor plays Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, Inde Navarrette takes on Rogue, and Broadway performer Maya Boyd, known for leading & Juliet, plays Storm. Christopher Abbott plays a younger Professor X, a deliberate departure from Patrick Stewart's older, more settled version.

Whereas, Samara Weaving joins as Emma Frost, a character whose comic-book history moves between villain and ally. None of them-- save perhaps Weaving-- walk in with existing franchise recognition. Navarrette is fresh off her first real box-office hit this year, Boyd is making her film debut altogether, and Connor is arriving from a British teen drama. All three are still young enough, perhaps for Marvel to spend the next decade building around them.

Adam Driver rounds out the cast as the film's antagonist, appearing via a video message shot from Pinewood Studios in the UK, where filming will soon begin. He joked about assuming he'd been called to set in California, then revealed his character isn't Magneto after all but Nathaniel Milbury, better known as Mister Sinister.

He said he and Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel studios had been talking for years about him joining the MCU, and that they'd landed on "the perfect film at the perfect time."

Feige has stressed the lineup isn't final. Beast, Angel, and Mystique remain uncast, with names attached to those roles still expected before cameras roll. Beyond casting, fans are watching two other threads closely: whether Hugh Jackman's Wolverine factors in at all, given comic canon puts his X-Men debut over a decade after the team's founding, and how the film handles Emma Frost's loyalties, since the comics never fully settle whether she's on the team's side.

Feige also didn’t call any of this a reboot. He mentioned, “reboot is a scary word. Reboot can mean a lot of things to a lot of people”. He is thinking along the lines of what one would call a ‘reset’, saying “Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Alan Cumming, and Kelsey Grammer all reprise their Fox-era roles in Avengers: Doomsday this December, before Schreier's younger cast takes over for the standalone film in 2028, the same year Marvel also has Ghost Rider and Black Panther III on its slate. For now, that's what's confirmed: a cast, a director, and a date. 

The date is May 5, 2028, placing the untitled film among the first releases of Marvel's post-Secret Wars era.