Marvel gives exciting update about the MCU’s future after Avengers: Secret Wars – and it’ll be all about the X-Men: ‘It really leads us into a new age of mutants’

• Marvel has given fans an exciting glimpse into its post-Avengers: Secret Wars plans
• The comic titan will build its future around the X-Men, according to boss Kevin Feige
• Various mutants will appear in movies before the Multiversa Saga ends, too

The Marvel Multiverse Saga isn’t over yet, but the comic giant’s boss Kevin Feige has provided an exciting insight into its post-Avengers: Secret Wars plans.

Speaking, albeit virtually, at the opening of Disney’s APAC Content Showcase in Singapore (per Deadline), Feige revealed that the next stage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) will be built around the X-Men. Cue fans, myself included, of the iconic mutant superhero group punching the air in unison.

That’s not the only exciting news that Feige had for the assembled crowd. Marvel’s creative chief also dropped a huge hint that we’ll see numerous mutants appear in MCU movies before Secret Wars – the Marvel Phase 6 film that’ll wrap up the Multiverse Saga’s story in May 2027.

“I think you will see that [bringing the X-Men to the MCU] continues in our next few movies with some X-Men players that you might recognize,” Feige teased. “Right after that, the whole story of Secret Wars really leads us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men. Again, [it’s] one of those dreams come true. We finally have the X-Men back.”

The X-Men’s arrival has been a long time coming in the MCU. The superteam’s rights were previously held by 20th Century Fox, which meant Marvel couldn’t use any mutant characters in the MCU for over two decades. However, with Marvel regaining the rights to the X-Men when Disney bought Fox in March 2019, the studio has slowly been integrating one of its most famous supergroups into its cinematic juggernaut via various Marvel Phase 4 and Marvel Phase 5 projects.

From Disney Plus shows like Ms Marvel and X-Men 97, to films including Deadpool and Wolverine, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and The Marvels, the mutants have been…