Marvel’s X-Men Movie May Be Helmed by Thunderbolts‘ Jake Schreier

He turned the Thunderbolts into The New Avengers, and now director Jake Schreier may bring the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Deadline reports that the Thunderbolts director “is in early talks” to direct Marvel’s upcoming X-Men project. Michael Lesslie, the writer of The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes, has been attached as a writer since last summer. io9 reached out to Marvel for comment or clarification and will update this post if or when we hear back.

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This move makes a whole lot of sense, though. Starting with Jon Favreau and all the way up to the Russo brothers, Marvel Studios loves to use directors who they’ve already shared success with. And after the strong opening weekend, especially critically, for Thunderbolts, you can totally see how Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and the team would want to put such a massive project in trusted hands.

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