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Marvel’s New ‘X-Men’ Cast Revealed: Adam Driver as Mr. Sinister

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August 15, 2026

Meet your new X-Men.

Kevin Feige took the stage at D23 on Friday to announce the cast of Jake Schreier’s MCU reboot. Adam Driver will play the villain Mr. Sinister, while Inde Navarrette plays Rogue, Maya Boyd plays Storm and Christopher Abbott plays Professor X.

They join Sadie Sink, who debuted as Jean Grey in the massively successful “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.” Feige teased that the film will be “Jean Grey’s story” and will release in theaters on May 5, 2027. In the comics, Jean Grey and Mr. Sinister have a key relationship that could come into play.

These new mutants will also join the previously announced Kit Connor as Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops, and Samara Weaving as the sometimes hero, sometimes villain mutant Emma Frost, sometimes referred to as the White Queen (often in relation to the Hellfire Club).

This news comes after a whirlwind few weeks of rumors over who was in talks to play these mutants. Navarrette herself spoke a few times about how she was gunning to play Mystique — not Rogue — before the reveal.

Driver’s casting is also crucial after years of his name being floated for various parts in the MCU. He was notably one of the key names rumored for Mister Fantastic before Pedro Pascal took over.

Schreier will direct the new “X-Men” film, which is set to come after the Multiverse Saga finale “Avengers: Secret Wars.” This follows his work on 2025’s “Thunderbolts*,” later known as “The New Avengers.” The “X-Men” film will be written by Lee Sung Jin (the creator of “Beef,” which Schreier directed several episodes of), Joanna Calo (who wrote on “Thunderbolts*”) and Michael Lesslie.

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New ‘X-Men’ Movie Taps Christopher Abbott As Professor X, Adam Driver Joins

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August 15, 2026

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Christopher Abbott has been tapped to play Charles Xavier aka Professor X in Marvel Studios upcoming X-Men movie. But also Adam Driver beamed in to announce that he’s playing…”Magneto,” said the actor. But then the actor paused to say “No wait, Nathaniel Mayberry.”

The news was announced at Disney’s D23 event in Anaheim tonight. Deadline had previously broken the news of Samara Weaving being tapped to play Emma Frost and Kit Connor on board to play Cyclops and those castings were also confirmed. Inde Navarette was announced as Rogue. And as Storm, it’s Maya Boyd.

Before the X-Men were announced, Marvel boss Kevin Feige introduced Sadie Sink on stage, who plays Jean Gray. “We’re here to talk about the X-Men.”

May 5th, 2028 is the release date for X-Men.

While James Bond has had everyones attention this summer at who could next play 007, the most active casting process has been who will play the new team of Mutants in Marvel Studios pic. Schreier and Marvel execs have been meeting and auditioning actors all summer with a final round of tests taking place after the fourth of July holiday.

Professor X is a telepathic mutant and the founder and leader of the X-Men first appearing in a 1963 comic. The character would famously be played by Patrick Stewart in the X-Men starting in 2000 as well as by James McAvoy in the rebooted origin series in the 2010s. Stewart will actually be reprising the role in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday pic bowing in December.

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This latest development is sure to excite fans of the franchise who have been begging for a new movie since Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox and its library in 2019. The X-Men universe was by far the most popular and profitable Marvel IP that Fox controlled, with seven films and a successful Wolverine spinoff franchise that produced three more.

The project gained momentum last spring when Schreier was tapped to direct the project followed by Beef creator Lee Sung Jim and The Bear co-creator Joanna Calo being tapped to pen the script.

Abbott was most recently seen in The Testament of Ann Lee and can be next seen in Netflix’s highly-anticipated East of Eden series starring Florence Pugh. He is repped by WME and Entertainment 360.

At San Diego Comic-Con last month, Marvel announced that there’s a new Ghost Rider movie starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Shawn Levy and written by Jonathan Tropper for 2028. Also that David Jonsson is playing T’Challa’s grown son in Black Panther 3 set for December 2028.

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New Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Reveals More of RDJ’s Doom

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August 15, 2026

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Marvel Studios released a new trailer for “Avengers: Doomsday” on Friday night, giving fans an even wider look at the next superhero team-up.

The footage came at the D23 Expo, as part of the Disney Studios showcase.

The first trailer for the film came last month, just a week before San Diego Comic-Con. The footage gave fans their first proper look at Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom, as well as the return of Chris Evans as Steve Rogers.

Both are returning after their arcs ended in “Avengers: Endgame,” though Downey’s was, of course, a bit more final. At the end of that film, Tony Stark died, sacrificing himself to snap Thanos and his cronies out of existence. Meanwhile, Steve Rogers simply chose to live in the past with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell, also returning for “Doomsday”) after returning the Infinity Stones to their proper timelines.

“Avengers: Doomsday” lands in theaters on Dec. 18.

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X-Men Cast Revealed for Marvel Reboot

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August 15, 2026

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To me, my X-Men!

After years of speculation, and a furious few months of screen tests and dealmaking, Marvel unveiled its X-Men cast at D23 on Friday night.

The movie will star Sadie Sink (Jean Grey), Kit Connor (Cyclops), Chris Abbott (Prof. X), Samara Weaving (Emma Frost), Inde Navarrette (Rogue) and Maya Boyd (Storm). Adam Driver is also among the cast as the villain Mr Sinister.

The cast was onstage with Marvel boss Kevin Feige, with Driver making a video appearance.

“Kevin and I have been talking for years about me joining MCU,” Driver said, adding they had “found something perfect with characters I feel very deeply about.”

Some of the cast was known going into D23. Sink was the first piece of the puzzle, with her Jean Grey debuting in Spider-Man: Brand New Day last month. And it was already reported that Kit Connor would play Cyclops and that Samara Weaving would play Emma Frost.

Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier is directing X-Men. When Disney purchased 20th Century Fox in 2019, the key question among Marvel fans was when the X-Men would come to the MCU.

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the X-Men in 1963, with Prof. X leading an original class of Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Angel and Ice Man against Magneto. It was a foundational text for comic book culture.

It spawned 2000’s X-Men, the Bryan Singer-directed feature that kicked off the modern age of superhero movies and which made Hugh Jackman into a star thanks to his turn as Wolverine. A number of actors from the 2000s movies will return for Avengers: Doomsday, including Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), James Marsden (Cyclops), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler) and Kelsey Grammer (Beast). In addition, Channing Tatum, who played the card-throwing mutant Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine, is among the cast.

The 2010s revamp of the X-Men starred James McAvoy as Prof. X, Michael Fassbender as Magneto and Jennifer Lawrence, Mystique and Nicholas Hoult as Beast.

More to come.