Attention, X-Men fans, the arrival of mutants in the MCU is getting closer! Marvel Studios just announced some very good news about the reboot, confirming that a rumor from last month was true.
Marvel has found the director of X-Men (and you know him)
At the beginning of May, we shared with you a rumor that Marvel had found the director for its reboot X-Men, and it Turns out she was right! This is great news for fans of the latest MCU film, Thunderbolts, as the mutants will be landing in front of Jack Schreier's camera. The 43-year-old filmmaker has been making waves with the New York adventures of the MCU's newest team, named after Yelena Belova's childhood sports team. After Robot and Frank in 2012 (Cartier Revelation Award, Grand Prix at the Deauville Festival) and The Hidden Face of Margo in 2015, this director from the arthouse cinema definitively joins the Marvel Studios talent pool.
The X-Men,tortured superheroes
As you probably know if you are an avid reader of the X-Men comics, these Marvel superheroes have complicated personal histories, and many of them suffer from psychological disorders, whether literary or metaphorical. One of the most well-known examples is Jean Grey, the mutant who harbors the Phoenix, a destructive force that causes her to lose control of herself. As with the Sentry and the Void, the two facets of Bob, the super-powered newcomer to the MCU introduced in Thunderbolts, this X-Woman evokes bipolar disorder and the loss of her own mental control. Wolverine, another mutant particularly beloved by fans, suffers from amnesia and post-traumatic stress after suffering atrocities in the past. The result is anger and savagery, coupled with great difficulty living in society.
Yesterday on Hitek, we talked about Magik, Colossus's sister, a mutant with the potential to become the most popular X-Men in the MCU. Like her predecessors, her mental health isn't great. After being held in Limbo during her childhood, under the thumb of a demon, she developed a demonic alter-ego, the Darkchylde, with which she struggles at every moment. Cyclops, a character whose full potential was not fully exploited in the Fox films, and whose slapstick side prevented us from really getting attached to him, has some touching flaws in the comics. He suffers from depressive episodes that he strives to hide from his colleagues and he is morally rigid, having experienced an orphaned childhood during which he developed a feeling of abandonment.
The X-Men and the Thunderbolts, odes to differences and acceptance
With Thunderbolts*, Jack Schreier has proven his talent for portraying characters who have been battered by life, solitary, difficult to access but endearing, with sometimes gray morals, often prey to moral conflicts. The themes of rejection and difference are at the heart of the X-Men comics, and discovering the director's vision for these mutants promises powerful and emotional moments. Like the Thunderbolts, the X-Men are condemned to save a humanity that wants them to disappear, hates them, and despises them. In terms of the direction, it also promises a less "brutal" and more polished, darker aesthetic. Florence Pugh had compared Thunderbolts* with a film from the A24 studio, for us the best studio currently, and it is by maintaining this "independent" spirit that the filmmaker will be able to truly differentiate himself from the Fox franchise, while sublimating his raw material.
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