WARNING: Spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
The best option for the MCU to reboot the X-Menfranchise would be through a TV show, but the franchise's current approach to the Disney+ Marvel series makes it difficult to happen. For the first time since the inception of the MCU, Marvel can now have the mutants and the Fantastic Four as part of a larger franchise following Disney's acquisition of Fox. Curiously, while the Fantastic Four already has a movie in development, there has yet to be any news regarding the first live-action MCU X-Men project, which suggests that Marvel is taking extra care in planning the definite arrival of the mutants in the MCU.
For 20 years, the X-Men were at the center of their own cinematic franchise under Fox. Before the MCU's eventual reboot, 13 mutant movies were made between X-Men stories and solo entries for Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool. TheX-Men franchise had its highs and lows, with X-Men: Days of Future Past being the saga's most successful film at the box office, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix is the lowest-grossing X-Men film. Unlike the MCU, the original X-Men franchise didn't follow one strict timeline, especially after X-Men: First Class showed the origins of the team in a period movie with an entirely new cast.
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Considering the original X-Men franchise and all the different directions Marvel Studios could take the IP in the future, having the MCU X-Men reboot happen on a TV rather than in a movie would arguably be the best decision for the mutants. The X-Men comic book legacy would be much better translated in a serialized format, the dozens of X-Men characters and plotlines would all
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