Overview
- An industry scooper known as My Time to Shine Hello posted on July 1 that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is reportedly interested in having Anya Taylor-Joy reprise Illyana ‘Magik’ Rasputin in the MCU, but the report remains unconfirmed.
- Major entertainment sites repeated the claim with caveats and noted that neither Marvel nor Feige has issued any confirmation.
- Fans reacted largely positively online, celebrating Taylor-Joy’s casting and calling the prospect a chance to correct the character’s poor handling in The New Mutants.
- The New Mutants introduced Taylor-Joy as Magik but received weak reviews and box-office returns, including a 36% score on Rotten Tomatoes, which frames a possible MCU return as a potential ‘redemption’ for the role.
- Commentators say multiverse-focused MCU projects such as Avengers: Secret Wars or Doomsday would be the most likely places to place a Fox-era Magik and observers say the story is one to watch for formal casting or production notices from Marvel.