Adrian Hough: top related news
06.03 / 02:17
Twitter
Marvell
Booking
Is X-Men 97 In The MCU? Disney+ Mutant Debut Explained
Fox's X-Men: The Animated Series is being rebooted on Disney+, with Marvel and Disney commissioning the show X-Men '97, but is it connected to the MCU? Marvel regained the film and TV rights to the X-Men when Disney acquired most of Fox's film and TV empire, and it's only a matter of time before mutants join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For all that's the case, though, Marvel don't exactly seem to be in a hurry; although they've avoided some former Fox properties into their shared cinematic universe, they've been content to work with what they're referring to as "non-marquee" characters and concepts. To date, the most prominent MCU debut of an X-Men idea was in The Falcon & the Winter Soldier, when the titular heroes traveled to the fictional island of Madripoor.
