Something is brewing behind the scenes at Marvel Studios. After five years of unfulfilling teases, its cinematic universe is finally ready to unveil the new X-Men: the MCU already has its Jean Grey, and the rest of the mutant team seems to be falling in beside her. After Jean’s debut in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Deadline reported that another telepath, Emma Frost, would appear in Marvel’s upcoming X-Men reboot. With these two rivals poised to face off in live action for the first time, curiosity naturally turned to the third point of their love triangle, Scott Summers (aka Cyclops).
Casting any X-Men character is a tall order for Marvel at this stage, but Cyclops might be one of the trickiest to get right. If director Jake Schreier really means to tell a more comic-accurate story with the team, then Cyclops will probably be the star of the new X-Men. Fox’s trilogy might have focused more on Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, but the comics tend to focus on Cyclops as both the X-Men’s leader and as the center of this universe. Like Wolverine, however, Cyclops can be a prickly guy. That means Marvel has to tap someone to make him feel like someone you can root for — even if he were to, say, cheat on Jean with Emma Frost.
