Marvel has spent the past few years building up to its next major event in Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars, which could deliver the end of its cinematic universe as we know it. If it is to be the end, it honestly can’t come fast enough — if only because of what’s waiting on the other side.
Secret Wars may bring a reckoning to the MCU, but it will also signal a major shift from the Avengers to the X-Men. The team-up film will even bring the old class of X-Men back into the fold, offering the cast (and those endeared to them) yet another fond farewell. I’ll never say no to a victory lap for the likes of Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden, cloying as it obviously is. But the MCU promises a new chapter after all that nostalgia: According to Marvel boss Kevin Feige, mutantkind will inherit what’s left of the Earth after Secret Wars. Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier is set to helm Marvel Studios’ first X-Men film, tapping an all-new cast to replace the old.
