Famous in animation, characters have had little presence in cinema until now
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While fans wait for Marvel Studios to officially announce its first X-Men film, rumors circulating about which characters will form the team continues to circulate on the internet. Now, insider DanielRPK, who has a history of leaking information about Marvel, said that Gambit and Kitty Pride will be part of the reboot's lineup. Gambit, recently seen in Deadpool & Wolverine where he was played by Channing Tatum, an actor who tried for years to make a film of the character, was popularized in the 1990s by X-Men: The Animated Series and until then had never appeared as part of the X-Men in theaters (his first appearance was played by Taylor Kitsch in the rejected X-Men Origins: Wolverine).
Kitty Pride had a small role in the original X-Men trilogy from the former 20th Century Fox, but she also has a strong legacy in animation, particularly with X-Men Evolution. However, we will only know when Marvel starts releasing details about the new X-Men. For now, it has only been reported that the project will have a script by Michael Leslie, who wrote the adaptation of Macbeth directed by Justin Kurzel and, more recently, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
The most popular group in Marvel comics, the X-Men are heroes who are born with mutations that grant them powers. In the comics and adaptations, themes such as discrimination and prejudice are frequently addressed, since mutants are often seen by humans as aberrations due to the abilities they were born with. Still, the X-Men choose to protect the world from villains, including other mutants, under the leadership of Professor Xavier, who believes in coexistence between species. Although it is not the group's first project at the studio (this is X-Men 97, an animated film that continues the team's classic design), Marvel's X-Men movie has been expected since Disney, the studio's owner, acquired 20th Century Fox and all of its intellectual properties in 2019. F
ox had owned the X-Men movie rights since the late 1990s when it bought them from a then-bankrupt Marvel, which did so to escape bankruptcy. At Fox, the X-Men have had several films. An initial trilogy was led by Bryan Singer and Brett Ratner in the 2000s, and featured Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Halle Berry as Storm, James Marsden as Cyclops, Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, and, of course, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, a character who earned his own trilogy, culminating in Logan, before returning in Deadpool & Wolverine.
Other X-Men spinoffs at Fox included the Deadpool movies and the forgotten The New Mutants. In the 2010s, a semi-reboot was executed to examine the adventures of the group before Singer's first film, X-Men: First Class. This new version brought James McAvoy as a young Xavier and Michael Fassbender as Magneto and ran for four films, adapting famous sagas such as Days of Future Past, Apocalypse, and, in the final chapter, Dark Phoenix. The Marvel film is expected to feature an entirely new cast and start the X-Men story from scratch.
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