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Kevin Feige On Trying To Cast Adam Driver In Marvel Role Amid 'X-Men' Reboot Rumors: "It's A Tradition To Zoom With Him & Then He Passes" 41%
By Armando Tinoco8%
7/21/2026, 1:03:14 AM
Topics: Marvel Cinematic Universe, X Men Reboot
BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 33.4% saturation with 105 hits. Analysis detected 642 faulty-reasoning hits from 314 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 45.9% and a BS Rank of 41% (11,324 of 18,899 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 59.90% of the article peer group.
Kevin Feige has been trying to work with Adam Driver and cast him in a Marvel film role, but so far it has not become official.
Amid rumors that Driver could potentially star in the X-Men reboot, the studio head revealed where he’s at in finally working with the Girls actor.
“It’s no secret we’d like to [work with Driver],” Feige said in the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
“But it’s a tradition to Zoom with him, and then he passes.
That’s a long-lived tradition.
Filmmaker Jake Schreier is set to direct the X-Men reboot from a script being developed by Beef creator Lee Sung Jin and The Bear showrunner Joanna Calo.
Rumors that Driver is set to join the cast of the reboot have been circulating for weeks, with conflicting reports that the Star Wars: The Last Jedi actor is up for roles like Magneto, William Stryker, or Mister Sinister.
Marvel is set to introduce a new generation of X-Men actors in the reboot after Avengers: Doomsday says goodbye to the actors who played the mutants across the Fox era.
All the characters now live under the Disney umbrella following Disney’s 2019 acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
In a 2025 interview, Schreier discussed what he learned on Thunderbolts* that he would apply to making the X-Men film.
“The biggest learning curve for me was the proportion of the action to the more emotional, character-driven scenes, and how, even though it’s more shooting days than I’ve ever had, they get eaten up quite quickly by the action stuff,” he told Empire.
“By the time we got to the end of it, it felt like, ‘Oh, now I feel like we get how to do this a little bit better.’”
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