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Who Is Michael Lesslie & What His Hiring Means For Marvel's X-Men Movie

While time will tell where the X-Men movie falls into The Multiverse Saga - if at all - Lesslie's body of work includes The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes. The prequel movie is currently his biggest credit, which opened to middling-to-positive reviews. Lesslie also wrote the screenplays for the 2016 Assassin's Creed live-action movie and 2015's Macbeth. He is currently attached to write the forthcoming Now You See Me 3.

With the hiring of Lesslie to pen the X-Men movie, it appears that Marvel Studios wanted to make sure to land someone who is familiar with tackling ensembles. While Lesslie has worked in Hollywood for several years, he is a lesser-known writer, meaning Marvel Studios weren't too concerned about landing a big name. Whether the studio will add additional writers remains to be seen.

It will certainly be interesting to see who they end up hiring to direct the X-Men reboot, especially after the successful run that Marvel Studios had with X-Men '97 season 1. The bigger question is if it will be a director who has already worked with Marvel Studios or if they are perhaps looking to tap some new blood for the franchise. Hopefully, more updates on the MCU's X-Men movie reboot will arrive in the coming months.

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Marvel's X-Men is the tentative title for the future debut of the legendary Marvel mutant superhero team in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

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