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 Useless director, whose new film The Running Man simply opened, was famously going to make Ant-Man method again in Section One. Then, in fact, there were creative differences, and that film occurred with out him, however followers at all times attempt to think about, “What if?” Properly, apparently, there’s a good larger Marvel “What if?” for Edgar Wright than Ant-Man. There’s the X-Males.

Talking on the pink carpet for The Operating Man, producer Simon Kinberg revealed that his want to work with Wright through the years led to many alternative tasks being floated his method, 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 once we had been younger guys in Hollywood, simply beginning out collectively, and I’ve been such an enormous fan of his. I’ve despatched him issues through the years, many, many [things], X-Males films, all types of issues, and he at all times mentioned no.” Till The Operating Man. Right here’s the complete 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 Operating Man (@Films) November 13, 2025

Kinberg, who’s at present 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, perhaps not that final one.

We don’t know which movies, particularly, Kinberg provided, however he positively made it look like 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 e book 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 Operating Man, which you’ll be able to see in theaters. Read our interview with Wright about it here, the place he talks about listening to from Kinberg.

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