Apparently, Edgar Wright Turned Down Directing an ‘X-Males’ Film

Director Edgar Wright has a brief, however storied, historical past with Marvel Studios. The Shaun of the Lifeless director, whose new film The Running Man simply opened, was famously going to make Ant-Man manner again in Section One. Then, in fact, there were creative differences, and that film occurred with out him, however followers all the time attempt to think about, “What if?” Properly, apparently, there’s a good greater Marvel “What if?” for Edgar Wright than Ant-Man. There’s the X-Males.

Talking on the crimson carpet for The Working Man, producer Simon Kinberg revealed that his want to work with Wright over time led to many various tasks being floated his manner, together with everybody’s favourite mutants. “I’ve been attempting to make a film with Edgar Wright for over 25 years,” Kinberg mentioned to the official Movies X account. “We met after we have been younger guys in Hollywood, simply beginning out collectively, and I’ve been such an enormous fan of his. I’ve despatched him issues over time, many, many [things], X-Males films, every kind of issues, and he all the time mentioned no.” Till The Working Man. Right here’s the total quote.

It began proper right here

Producer Simon Kinberg talks getting Edgar Wright concerned with THE RUNNING MAN, in theaters TONIGHT pic.twitter.com/vNsL6O1X1L

— @Films is prepared for The Working Man (@Films) November 13, 2025

Kinberg, who’s presently writing a Star Wars trilogy, both wrote or produced each X-Males film from 2006 to 2020. Mainly, the majority of the Fox years. And he was in a position to get some stellar administrators to assist these, from Matthew Vaughn and James Mangold to Tim Miller and David Leitch. However are you able to think about Edgar Wright doing X-Males: First Class? Or Deadpool? Or New Mutants? Properly, possibly not that final one.

We don’t know which movies, particularly, Kinberg provided, however he undoubtedly made it seem to be a couple of. And we don’t know why Wright turned them down, although his previous with Marvel might’ve factored in. However, in a comic book guide panorama of almosts, an Edgar Wright X-Men film is fairly rattling fascinating.

In fact, Kinberg did ultimately get to work with Wright on The Working Man, which you’ll see in theaters. Read our interview with Wright about it here, the place he talks about listening to from Kinberg.

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