10 Dream MCU Projects Disney Will (Probably) Never Make
7. Excalibur
Marvel Comics
The X-Men are on their way to the MCU, and - ignoring all the ethical ramifications of the Disney-Fox merger - it's pretty great.
Jean Grey, Cyclops, Storm and all the other mutants Fox couldn't do right are hopefully on their way to an authentic adaptation in the next few years (just so long as Marvel don't follow the Endgame writers' suggestions of how to introduce them), and it's more than fair to say that they could be just as huge as the Avengers have proven to be since 2012.
But even though there's bound to be a bunch of X-Men sequels and spin-offs aplenty, it's very unlikely that Marvel will ever produce a film centred around one of their many splinter groups. Fox sanctioned the New Mutants the other year, but that's about as far away as you can get from what the original team were all about, with the film instead shaping up to be a comic book horror movie of sorts.
This makes it twice as unlikely that any group like X-Force, X-Factor, or - the coolest of them all - Excalibur will ever make it to the big screen. There's just no point in diluting the brand, even if it would obviously be amazing to see a Betsy Braddock-fronted line-up where she's the new Captain Britain.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
