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While Disney may have plans to reboot the “X-Men” franchise, seems they’re open to merely soft relaunching the ol’ Fox staple – especially if they can get Patrick Stewart back to reprise Charles Xavier.
Out promoting the highly-anticipated “Star Trek : Picard”, which launches this week, the acclaimed actor said he recently met with Marvel Studios magnate Kevin Feige to talk about the “X-Men” series.
“I met with Kevin Feige a couple of months ago and we had long, long conversations,” he tells Digital Spy. “And there have been moves and suggestions, which include Charles Xavier.”
Stewart, 79, doesn’t think it’s even possible to have his version of Xavier return though.
“Here’s the problem. If we had not made Logan, then yes, I would probably be ready to get into that wheelchair one more time and be Charles Xavier,” Stewart adds. “But Logan changed all that.”
“Hugh took my hand, and we held hands with the last seven or eight minutes of the film because there was so many things we were upset about,” he explains. “We were moved by the story. We were moved by one another. We were moved by the movie. But we also both made the decision that we were saying goodbye to our characters as well. In that sense, it was not just the deaths of those two men in the franchise, but it was also goodbye to our part in them as well.”
Will be interesting to see what Disney does do with the “X-Men” series..
