Rumors: MCU X-Men Reboot To Introduce One Notable Villain

In March 2019, Marvel Studios regained the film rights to X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Deadpool after Disney’s acquisition of Fox for $71.3 billion.

These characters are planned to be integrated into the MCU. In October 2020, the ‘X-Men’ and ‘Fantastic Four’ films were rebranded as “Marvel Legacy films” on Disney+. Notably, Patrick Stewart already reprised his role as an alternate Professor X in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ and Kelsey Grammer returned as Beast in ‘The Marvels’. ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ a sequel to ‘Deadpool 2,’ will bring Deadpool and Wolverine, portrayed by Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, respectively, into the MCU continuity.

A new X-Men film, aimed at rebooting the franchise within the MCU, entered early development in September 2023 but the rumors of its development appeared as early as 2021 with Kevin Feige himself working on it. Now we haven’t heard anything new about the project in a long time but if Daniel Richtman is to be believed, MCU plans on using one of the most popular X-Men villains in the reboot – Mister Sinister.

Mister Sinister, also known as Nathaniel Essex, is a supervillain in the Comics. He was created by writer Chris Claremont and first appeared as the mysterious employer behind the team of assassins known as the Marauders in ‘The Uncanny X-Men’ #212. His full appearance followed in ‘The Uncanny X-Men’ #221.

Mister Sinister was Born in Victorian London, he was a human scientist inspired by Charles Darwin’s work. He became obsessed with engineering humanity into a perfect race of superhumans. After encountering the mutant villain Apocalypse, Essex was transformed into Mister Sinister—an ageless man with superpowers—using alien Celestial technology.

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