X-MEN (2028) CAST BREAKDOWN! Cyclops, Professor X, and Storm… Everything We Know!

It's official, the MCU has its Cyclops. to pair with its Jean Grey. Here's. everything we know about the Marvel. Studios X-Men movie coming in 2028. I'm. Eric Voss from the New Rock Stars. channel and the Marvel Studios X-Men. cast is coming together with Deadline. reporting that Scott Summers Cyclops. will be played by Kit Connor from. Heartstopper alongside another Marvel. Studios mutant Wicked actor Joe Locke. and from the movie Warfare alongside. Marvel actors like Joseph Quinn, Will. Poulter and Michael Gandolfini. While. not yet officially confirmed by Marvel. Studios, this news is expected to be. confirmed at Disney's D23 event on.

August 14th where I will be there on the. scene reporting it. But Kit Connor. sounds like the latest X-Men actor. confirmed after Samara Weaving as Emma. Frost and of course Sadie Sink as Jean. Grey that we learned about in Spider-Man. Brand New Day. In this video, I'm going. to break down everything we are learning. about this Marvel Studios X-Men film. By. the way, we have so many great Marvel. themed designs available at our merch. store nerdriot.shop. Specifically, shirts that you see Peter wearing in the. film like Delmar's Deli and The Physics. Are Theoretical, But The Fun Is Real. And of course, our awesome Spider-Man. Who Suit design and our Guy in the Chair.

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Deadline's Justin Kroll broke the news. and included the detail that meetings. and auditions over the last couple. months have been happening for this. X-Men reboot and that a small group of. actors tested after the July 4th. holiday. Deadline reported last week. that Samara Weaving will be playing Emma. Frost, Sadie Sink is of course playing. Jean Grey, Scott Summers' future wife, and what's going to be a very. complicated marriage involving Jean. Grey's clone, Madeline Pryor, at some. point. Sadie Sink finally opened up. about playing Jean Grey today in. interviews with Variety and. Entertainment Weekly and shared that. when she was cast, she told Stranger. Things creators the Duffer brothers that.

she would be playing Jean Grey, which is. interesting because those guys put. Uncanny X-Men 134 in the Stranger Things. pilot episode, which was part of the. Dark Phoenix Saga. But, Sadie did not. tell anyone else in the Stranger Things. cast, which makes the footage of all the. cast crying during the final table read, while Sadie just kind of sat there and. smiled, even funnier. But, Sadie was. also asked whether Jean is headed to the. Westchester estate at the end of brand. new day, and she said she genuinely had. no clue. But, Sadie did offer this to. Variety as to what all the X-Men will be. exploring thematically in the X-Men. film. She said, "It's been really. exciting all the conversations we've.

had, and I feel really lucky that I have. this introduction in through Spider-Man. and her backstory. I think that's what. X-Men is all about, too. The more I've. gotten into it and researched what makes. them all special is that they are all. incredibly flawed and maybe have done. bad things. That makes them even more. compelling, complex characters, and a. more complex hero if they don't start. out that way. And we have to find their. relationship to their powers, because. it's not like they've asked for this or. that these strengths make their lives. easier. They make them a lot harder, actually. So, knowing Jean's struggle. will be important to the future of her. character and where she goes just makes.

her really well-rounded, which I'm. excited for." Sadie also told Variety. that she has not met her X-Men. castmates, which some took to mean that. she wasn't part of the July screen. tests. But, in the interview she did. with Entertainment Weekly, she did. confirm that she was part of the screen. test for the X-Men. I think to Variety, Sadie just didn't want to get caught in. the gotcha question, and she would have. accidentally confirmed Kit Connor and. Tamara Weaving based on the phrasing of. the question. But, also in that. Entertainment Weekly article in the last. question that was asked, Sadie did seem. to confirm the production timeline for. the movie of a 2028 release. Those are.

the X-Men cast we know for sure as of. this taping, but other names being. rumored include Kaylee Spani as Rogue. and Charles Melton as Hank McCoy Beast, two actors whom co-writer Lee Sung Jin. and Jake Schreier would have worked with. in season 2 of Beef on Netflix. This. X-Men film is being directed by. Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier and. written by Beef writers Lee Sung Jin and. Joanna Calo. Joanna Calo was also the. showrunner of The Bear. Kasra Farahani. will be the production designer after. working on Loki, Fantastic Four: First. Steps, and Avengers: Doomsday. Elsewhere. on the rumor front, Obsession star.

Indiana Evans kind of put her own name. in the ring when she confirmed that she. was part of those interviews with X-Men. director Jake Schreier and that Mystique. is her favorite character. >> Is there a character you would love to. play or you grew up watching that you're. like, "Oh, that would be such a dream.". Even if somebody already is playing. them. >> Oh, I mean, uh Mystique has always been. super cool. >> There have also been rumors that. Professor Charles Xavier of this film. has come down to a couple different. actors, including Bill Skarsgård, the. 35-year-old actor who plays Pennywise of. the It franchise, and Tom Pelphrey, the. 44-year-old actor who has played.

incredible roles, including Netflix's. Ozark and HBO's Task. Meanwhile, other. reporting has said that Professor X is. confirmed and it's neither of those two. actors. In The Hollywood Reporter's Heat. Vision newsletter, Boris Kit reported. that Christopher Abbott from HBO's Girls. and The Wolfman movie with Julia Garner. last year also tested for the role of. Professor X. But, unlike their. confirmations that Skarsgård and. Pelphrey were no longer in the running, Marvel would not respond as to whether. or not Abbott still was. I mean, whoever. gets cast, I'm excited to see a Charles. Xavier in the MCU who just has an. American accent. The Patrick Stewart and.

James McAvoy eras have led us to believe. that he's an Englishman, when in fact. that character was supposed to be born. in New York City and raised in New. York's Westchester County. There have. also been some rumors out there that. Adrian Brody is in contention to play. Magneto, Erik Lehnsherr. It's not from. any super reliable source, but it is. somewhat reassuring to hear that Marvel. Studios might be considering a Jewish. actor, specifically Adrien Brody has won. two Oscars, both roles being men who. survived the horrors of the Nazis in. World War II. At 53 years old, Brody. would be a generation older than the. other actors confirmed for this film and.

considerably older than the actors I. just mentioned for Professor X. But, as. I mentioned in Monday's video, Marvel. Studios could get around the whole. sticky timeline issue and maintain. Magneto's canonical backstory from. Auschwitz by just sticking with the rule. that Namor kind of suggested in Black. Panther: Wakanda Forever that mutants in. the MCU might just age slower than. normal humans do. Jake Schreier was born. to a Jewish family and I would be. surprised if this movie altered. Magneto's backstory away from World War. II. There's quite a bit of fan casting. going on to try to get Jamie Lawson to. be Aurora Monroe or Storm. Jamie Lawson.

plays Gotham City leader Bella Real in. Matt Reeves' Batman films and in the. Penguin series and she's only 28. I. thought based off of the gravitas she. brought to Bella Real that she was just. a bit older than that. The official D23. poster was released on Friday and the. art includes a depiction of Storm in the. black Outback costume that we saw her. wearing in X-Men '97 season 1. While we. are expecting some X-Men '97 and Marvel. animation news at D23, if they're. putting Storm on the poster for this. huge event, I'm expecting some. live-action Storm related X-Men. announcement. And of course, Adam Driver.

has been speculated to be cast in some. role in this franchise, perhaps as. Nathaniel Essex, Mr. Sinister, but Kevin. Feige has repeated that Adam Driver. always passes on everything they talk to. him about. According to scooper Jeff. Sneider, his source on the Kit Connor. scoop said that the runner-up for. Cyclops was Asa Butterfield from Ender's. Game and Hugo. And we have seen many. times that during the casting process, if there's an actor who gets really. close to a big role but doesn't get the. role, they'll sometimes offer them. another important role in the film. I. mean, Nicholas Hoult was one of the. finalists for Kal-El, Superman and. they're like, "We really like working.

with you. Why don't you play Lex. Luthor?" I mean, there's obviously no. shortage of other important roles in. X-Men. Nightcrawler, Kurt Wagner, Iceman, Bobby Drake, Angel, Warren. Worthington. III. Now, we aren't sure as of this. taping of the movie's release date, but. Variety gave us a big clue in the form. of its write-up of the Kit Connor. reports. Upcoming X-Men movie will kick. off a third saga of Marvel following. Avengers Doomsday and Avengers Secret. Wars. Following Doomsday and Secret Wars. suggests that X-Men will be the next MCU. release after Secret Wars. Secret Wars. coming December 17th, 2027 and the next.

open release date on Disney's slate. would probably be May 5th, 2028. I'm. assuming that's why Marvel Studios was. so non-committal with its release date. for Ghost Rider when they announced it. in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. So, I. think the 2028 slate is actually going. to be X-Men on May 5th, 2028, Ghost. Rider on July 28th, 2028, Black Panther. 3, which is confirmed to be December. 15th, 2028. Yes, three MCU movies in one. year. It's a big scale up from just the. one movie we're getting in 2027, but. hey, Marvel Studios released three. movies in 2025 even after they announced.

a general scale back. So, that would. also suggest that Ghost Rider and Black. Panther 3 might be expected to connect. in some way to Marvel Studios mutant. saga. For ideas on how that is going to. work and Marvel's future beyond these. movies with the Fantastic Four, with. Nova, and a possible recasting of Tony. Stark, check out Sunday's episode of our. sneak peek podcast. I'm a simple man. I. like lasers, I like big robots, and I. like big robots with lasers. I like. Transformers. So, whenever there's a new. way for me to re-engage with all the. Autobots or duke it out with the. Decepticons, I'm excited. That means.

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growing Chaos Legion threat. It's easy. to pick up and hard to put down. Pre-register for Transformers: Eternal. War on iOS or Android by clicking the. link in the description. Since Bill. Metzger went missing in the final. minutes of Spider-Man Brand New Day, we. are expecting Chamal Tillman's character. to come back as a villain in the mutant. saga. And the MCU has already introduced. other characters known to be mutants. Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel, played by Iman. Vellani, Namor, played by Tenoch Huerta, suspected mutant Wanda Maximoff, Scarlet. Witch, Elizabeth Olsen, and then based. off of that lineage, suspected mutant. Billy Maximoff, Wiccan, played by Joe.

Locke, and suspected mutant Tommy. Maximoff, Speed, played by Rory Mullica. in the upcoming Vision Quest series. And. also suspected mutant Franklin Richards. For many years, Franklin Richards was. considered a mutant in Marvel Comics. canon, but for the past couple decades, that was changed so that he was kind of. considered a powerful reality warping. mutate who could make his DNA look like. it had an X-gene. Either way, his mutant. status remains debated, and if you. consider him a mutant or you don't, I'm. not going to argue with you. But so far, the confirmed cast of this X-Men film, and if it includes the likes of Joe.

Locke, Rory Mullica, and Iman Vellani, it all represents a very young group of. actors. Like we are going to have a Jean. and a Scott in their early 20s. Kit. Connor is 22. Sadie Sink is 24. Now, Tamara Weaving is 34, which actually. sets up an interesting dynamic because. in the comics, there is at one point a. love triangle with Scott and Jean and. Emma Frost. Because Emma Frost, in. addition to being able to turn her body. into an indestructible diamond, is a. telepath. But a slightly older Emma. Frost also suggests that we might meet. her a little ways into her story, and. that she might have already gone through.

Emma Frost's tragic backstory as a. teacher at the Massachusetts Academy. training the Hellions until Trevor. Fitzroy arrived from a dystopian future. along with the mutant hunting Sentinels. called Upstarts who earn points by. killing other mutants and staged a. surprise attack on the school that. massacres most of Emma's students. Already, the way Brand New Day left. things, Kevin Feige has indicated that. these final shots of Jean Grey are meant. to be seen as leading directly to the. X-Men film, according to this interview. with Variety where he was asked, "How. does Brand New Day set up the MCU moving. forward?" And Feige said, "Well, for.

people who have seen Brand New Day, they. know the storyline leads into more. Spider-Man films and into the future of. the MCU. And I think we're still in. spoiler territory because the movie only. just came out, but it leads into another. very well-known Marvel franchise created. by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Yeah, that. Lee and Kirby franchise, obviously. X-Men. So, maybe we really are meant to. see Jean Grey headed on that bus out of. town as her headed up state to. Westchester County where Charles Xavier. is. I mean, I know I was probably. over-analyzing that shot of Jean leaning. her head against her own reflection as.

possibly foreshadowing her astral plane. connection to her future clone Madelyne. Pryor. I think Marvel Studios will get. to that, but based on Peter Parker. inventing what are essentially mutant. inhibitor collars, I think these early. era X-Men stories are going to be all. about mutant containment and oppression. and Sentinel technology. So, two. questions I'm really left with here. Do. we think Marvel Studios is going to. announce a Wolverine actor, someone who. could have been that man with the metal. claws fighting in the bar brawl. referenced in She-Hulk? And could they. go with an actor who's slightly older, someone in their 30s? Or would any age.

gap like that make things just really. messy with Jean Grey and Scott Summers. being in their early 20s? And a second. question, how much will Marvel Studios. X-Men link with the mythology of the. Celestials as part of the mutant genetic. origin story? The current season of. X-Men '97, which is awesome by the way, is establishing that in that animated. universe at least, the Celestial Eson. the Searcher visited Earth in ancient. times and experimented on Insaba Nur, aka Apocalypse, to elevate and transform. this early era mutant suggesting that. all of mutantkind was really part of the.

Celestial plan and grand design. Eson. the Searcher exists in the live-action. MCU. He was the one who wielded the. Power Stone in the flashbacks in James. Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1. So, can we connect the dots here and say. that Infinity Stone radiation does have. some impact on the X-gene? The same. Infinity Stones that were just snapped. by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner in. Endgame? The same Bruce Banner who was. just effectively the Albert Einstein. warning the J. Robert Oppenheimer of. Brand New day about the dangers of. mutant suppression technology. Again,

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talked about the lessons I learned from. trying to stupidly report on rumors live. on the scene from events like D23 and. Comic-Con. So, with all this confidence. that I had as this high school junior, I. was like, I know what I'm doing now. I. think I started to fly a little too. close to the sun because this year I. really wanted to try to report. eyewitness things of what I was seeing. and hearing. I I wanted to inform the. public about like what the word on the. street is. And I learned a lot of. valuable lessons about. currently in progress news and rumor and.

scoop reporting from the scene in San. Diego. Um I don't normally do that kind of. thing. I don't normally break news per. my sources cuz I don't have that many. sources and the sources that I do have, I normally just keep internal to help. the New Rockstars team plan our. production schedule and our programming. slate and I'm not trying to get word out. there that way. That's not really the. hustle I'm involved with. But while I. was there in San Diego, I started to get. a little too big for my britches and I'm. like, okay. And uh so there was two. things that I reported while I was on.

the ground that actually maybe three. that um. were. either not accurate or just complete. like hoaxes or rumors that were just. like not true at all. Uh and also just. some things that I reported I think were. taken out of context that really I. should have known better and phrased it. better. You can listen to whole podcast. and join this exclusive dialogue with us. by clicking the link in the description. below or going to n our. underground.supercast.com. And don't forget to pre-register for.

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