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Marvel Studios has announced a host of new actors for its X-Men reboot – including Stranger Things star Sadie Sink and Adam Driver.<\/b><\/p>\n
The stars taking on the roles of seven characters in the new movie were unveiled at Disney’s D23 fan event in the US on Friday.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the event, Sink told the crowd it was “so wonderful” to be there and to “finally talk about the character after months of speculation”.<\/p>\n
Star Wars actor Driver joined via video-link as his character was revealed as the villainous Nathaniel Milbury, who will also been known as Mr Sinister.<\/p>\n
He told fans he’d been talking “for years about maybe joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I think we finally found the perfect film at the perfect time”.<\/p>\n
The new X-Men film, which is currently untitled, will be directed by Jake Schreier and is out in cinemas in May 2028.<\/p>\n
Sink will play Jean Grey, a character revealed to fans when she appeared in Spiderman: Brand New Day last month.<\/p>\n
The other stars announced for X-Men were Heartstopper actor Kit Connor as Cyclops, Christopher Abbott as Professor Charles Xavier or X, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, Inde Navarrette as Rogue and Maya Boyd as Storm.<\/p>\n
Professor X has previously been played by Sir Patrick Stewart in other Marvel movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.<\/p>\n
Stewart will also appear as Professor X in the much-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday which is out in December, before Abbott plays the role in X-Men.<\/p>\n
A new trailer for Avengers: Doomsday was also released at D23, showing Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doom in a fight scene with Chris Hemsworth’s Thor.<\/p>\n
The last X-Men movie Dark Phoenix, which featured the likes of Jennifer Lawrence and Sophie Turner, came out in June 2019.<\/p>\n
It was released under 20th Century Fox, but earlier that year, Disney, which owns Marvel, acquired the rights to the franchise.<\/p>\n
Speaking at D23, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said there was a lot more X-Men casting news to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n