Overview
- Coverage Wednesday reported Bill Mechanic’s recollection that Fox executives saw Bryan Singer’s 2000 X-Men as a “disaster” and doubted a Marvel comic could work on film.
- Mechanic said he was dismissed from Fox about a month before the movie opened in July 2000 after clashes over projects he backed.
- X-Men grossed about $296.3 million worldwide on a $57 million budget and set up a franchise that has earned close to $6 billion, according to industry tallies.
- After Disney bought Fox in March 2019, Marvel began folding mutants into the MCU with the animated X-Men ’97 and the 2024 Deadpool and Wolverine release.
- GamesRadar+ and Gizmodo report more Fox-era mutants appear in Avengers: Doomsday on December 18 and that a new X-Men film is in development, with Jake Schreier attached and timing eyed for after Secret Wars in 2027.