{"id":251767,"date":"2026-07-13T22:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/rumor-patrick-wilson-and-adam-driver-up-for-xavier-and-magneto-in-the-mcu-x-men\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:42:23","slug":"rumor-patrick-wilson-and-adam-driver-up-for-xavier-and-magneto-in-the-mcu-x-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/rumor-patrick-wilson-and-adam-driver-up-for-xavier-and-magneto-in-the-mcu-x-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Patrick Wilson and Adam Driver up for Xavier and Magneto in the MCU X-Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RUMOR: Patrick Wilson &amp; Adam Driver Courted as Professor X &amp; Magneto in Marvel&#8217;s &#8216;X-Men&#8217; Reboot\u00a0&#8211; (via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KnightEdgeMedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@KnightEdgeMedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Marvel Studios is in full swing, looking to cast their version of the X-Men in the upcoming film. It&#8217;s also rumored that Sadie Sink is expected to be revea&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HroHCMfpZD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HroHCMfpZD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Knight Edge Media (@KnightEdgeMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KnightEdgeMedia\/status\/2076766464346853566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A number of different insider sources are saying Patrick Wilson and Adam Driver are in talks for the roles of Professor Xavier and Magneto in the upcoming X-Men film. <\/p>\n<p>The person who claimed that Driver was up for Magneto, @apochorseman has a history of being a reliable scooper; they first reported that Steven Yeun was leaving Thunderbolts and they accurately leaked three of the four members of the Fantastic Four cast.<\/p>\n<p>These are still just rumors and it wouldn\u2019t be the first time sources said Adam Driver was going to be in the MCU and the role went to someone else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KnightEdgeMedia\/status\/2076766464346853566?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132586510.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUMOR: Patrick Wilson &amp; Adam Driver Courted as Professor X &amp; Magneto in Marvel&#8217;s &#8216;X-Men&#8217; Reboot\u00a0&#8211; (via @KnightEdgeMedia) Marvel Studios is in full swing, looking to cast their version of the X-Men in the upcoming film. It&#8217;s also rumored that Sadie Sink is expected to be revea&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/HroHCMfpZD \u2014 Knight Edge Media (@KnightEdgeMedia) July 13, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}