You don’t need extensive knowledge of comic book lore to know that on their own, the X-Men can take on the box office just fine by themselves. Arriving on the big screen in 2000, they transformed names like Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), and Magneto (Ian McKellen) into movie-based money magnets, and the same will probably happen when they arrive and stay in the MCU, where fans have wanted them for years. The difference here is that, in the right hands, this other corner of the franchise could open doors — not just at Xaviers School for the Gifted, but other teams, groups, and standalone heroes carrying the mutant gene.
We know Wolverine can hold his own in a solo film, but what about Kitty Pryde, Gambit (who almost got his own movie with Channing Tatum in the lead), or Storm (who married and divorced Black Panther in the comics)? There’s enough to work with that this supposed strategy might be productive, allowing the X-Men to take over and save the MCU, returning the franchise to its former glory.
