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By George Robbins

There has been much talk ever since the announcement last year that Disney had acquired 21st Century Fox after winning a bidding war with Comcast. Much of the talk involves the properties that Disney now controls which is a large number of IP’s that they have been trying to get for years. Among those intellectual properties is the ‘X-Men‘ franchise which has brought in fans for years but it has also been stagnating. After their release of the first film, they were definitely standing on top because they did it pretty well. What followed after that is nothing but a series of hits and misses that fans were worried they would end up making and it essentially killed the franchise. Though now that Disney owns the property, all sorts of different things can be done moving forward.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe, often referred to as the MCU, is a cultural phenomenon that had not been done with so much success before. The MCU was started by Marvel Studios before they had been officially acquired by Disney and they have been able to continue without issue ever since. Without any real interference from their parent company they have managed to make films that will last throughout the ages and people will always love to go back and watch them as time goes on. This is something that not every franchise is capable of saying they have managed to do. With this in mind they are continuing to put out new movies, when they are able to, and they will probably be just as high quality as the other films.

Many MCU fans and comic book fans in general were happy to hear that Disney acquired 21st Century Fox due to the knowledge that it comes with. That would be the knowledge that the MCU now has a very strong chance of having the X-Men appear in the MCU in some fashion sometime in the future. If we are going to see them in the MCU, it will not be the same portrayals by the same actors we have seen in the past as this new adaptation of the characters will be a reboot. There is currently a theory in place that if the upcoming ‘New Mutants’ movie does well, then that may just be the jumping in point for where they could introduce the characters. There is no telling whether this theory is actually true but it would kind of make sense since the film is standalone, meaning that if it does well they can start from there and if it does bad they can simply call it a one-off.

Many fans are excited to see this iteration of the X-Men come to fruition but many feel that it might be too soon off of the heels of the previous films for anything to be done yet. This is why it is probably still a ways off especially since they don’t even have any writers currently working on the film. When they do, they are going to be putting their best writers forward so that their introduction goes smoothly. David Hayter, the screenwriter for 2000’s X-Men, has said that they will probably not hire him for this job working on the reboots, though he is very much open to the idea of it. Hopefully it will not be in the distant future where we will get to see the characters join the beloved universe of characters.