X-Men Cast Revealed for Marvel Reboot

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.