Sadie Sink, who performs Max Mayfield in Stranger Things, is reportedly set to star alongside Tom Holland in Spider-Man 4.
Deadline reviews that Sink, who made her movie debut within the 2016 biographical sports activities drama Chuck, will seem within the upcoming MCU film, which begins filming later this yr and has a launch date of July 31, 2026.
Marvel and Sony had no remark when contacted by Deadline.
Deadline speculates that Sink will play both X-Men character Jean Grey or “one other beloved redheaded Spider-Man character.” That suggests Mary Jane Watson, however fairly how her introduction would match into Peter Parker’s ongoing relationship with Michelle “MJ” Jones-Watson, performed by Zendaya within the earlier Spider-Man movies, stays to be seen. Deadline sounds assured Sink has a “vital” position in Spider-Man 4, which could possibly be one thing of a reset given the occasions of Spider-Man: No Way Home. In that movie, Peter reintroduces himself to MJ after Doctor Strange erases his id from everybody’s reminiscence.
Holland is at the moment filming Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the plan is for him to begin taking pictures Spider-Man as soon as he has completed manufacturing, Deadline reported.
Late final yr, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige teased the introduction of X-Men characters within the “subsequent few” MCU motion pictures.
Feige instructed an viewers on the Disney APAC Content Showcase in Singapore that followers would see “some X-Men gamers that you just would possibly acknowledge” within the subsequent few MCU motion pictures, however he stopped in need of saying which characters or what motion pictures.
On bringing the X-Men into the MCU, Feige added: “I feel you will notice that continues in our subsequent few motion pictures with some X-Men gamers that you just would possibly acknowledge.
“Right after that, the entire story of Secret Wars actually leads us into a brand new age of mutants and of the X-Men. Again, [it’s] a kind of goals come true. We lastly have the X-Men again.”
At the time, Marvel’s subsequent few motion pictures, if we assume few to imply three, had been Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, after which Phase Six kickstarter The Fantastic Four: First Steps in July 2025.
Perhaps extra probably are extra mutant appearances all through Phase 6 motion pictures, which embody 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday and Spider-Man 4, and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars. One of the important thing questions right here shall be whether or not Deadpool and Wolverine return to the MCU having seen such large success with their very own film this summer season. Could Channing Tatum additionally reprise his position as Gambit?
Feige has additionally mentioned the X-Men shall be an essential a part of the MCU’s future following Secret Wars. “When we had been getting ready for Avengers: Endgame years in the past, it was a query of attending to the grand finale of our narrative, after which we needed to begin once more after that,” Feige mentioned. “This time, on the highway to Secret Wars, we already know very effectively what the story goes to be till then and afterwards. The X-Men are an essential a part of that future.”
It appears like Phase 7 of the MCU shall be dominated by the X-Men, then, however within the quick time period, Storm appeared in What If…? Season 3, marking the character’s first look within the wider MCU.
In October, Marvel Studios added three untitled film initiatives to its 2028 launch schedule: February 18, 2028; May 5, 2028; and November 10, 2028. It appears more and more probably certainly one of these motion pictures is X-Men.
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