Overview
- After Avengers: Secret Wars in 2027, Marvel will reset its continuity and recast X-Men characters for Jake Schreier’s standalone film.
- Legacy X-Men actors—including Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden and Kelsey Grammer—will reprise their roles in Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Secret Wars before the reset.
- The narrative reset draws on Marvel Comics’ 2015 Secret Wars storyline by collapsing multiple timelines into one continuity rather than fully rebooting the franchise.
- Feige said that cornerstone heroes like Iron Man and Captain America will be reimagined by new actors after the continuity reset.
- Upcoming X-Men installments will focus on adolescent stories of otherness in line with the comics’ themes of young characters feeling different and excluded.