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‘X-Men’ Reboot Director Says ‘Beef’ Creator and ‘The Bear’ Writer Are ‘Working on a Draft’ of the Script: ‘We’re Still Developing’

The writers behind two of the most binge-able TV series are taking on Marvel’s most famous mutants.

Jake Schreier, who has been tapped to reboot the X-Men for the MCU, told Collider that he has enlisted “Beef” creator Lee Sung Jin and “The Bear” co-showrunner Joanna Calo (also of the “Beef” creative team) to take a pass on the latest draft of the upcoming superhero adventure. Schreier also teased what might be in store for fans of the vigilante heroes.

“When you go back and read X-Men [comics], there’s ideology, but also interpersonal drama, almost of a soap opera quality,” Schreier said. “Having writers who understand both how to drive ideology from personal stakes, if we get that right, that’s what will feel most honest to what X-Men can be.”

The move reunites Schreier, Lee and Calo after last year’s “Thunderbolts,*” where the trio proved their comic book chops — though the film was more a critical than a commercial hit.

Several other scribes have tried to crack the code on the X-Men. Previously, Michael Lesslie (“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t”) wrote a screenplay for the film, revising an earlier draft by Aaron Rabin (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”) and Zach Dean (“The Tomorrow War,” “Fast X”).

Schreier’s “X-Men” is significant as it marks the mutants’ solo debut in a Marvel Studios-produced movie. Marvel now oversees the creative direction of the characters following Disney’s 2019 purchase of much of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets. The company had previously licensed the X-Men and Fox made more than a dozen films with them, ranging from “Logan” to “Deadpool,” with a little “X-Men: Apocalypse” thrown in. The less said about “The New Mutants,” the better.

Many of the characters from the early aughts X-Men movies, such as Patrick Stewart’s Professor Xavier, Ian McKellen’s Magneto, Kelsey Grammer’s Beast and James Marsden’s Cyclops, will appear in the upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday.” Following that team-up, a new (younger) group of X-Men are expected to take their place in the MCU with Schreier’s film.

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