The X-Men spent years as the top team in comics and pop culture, ruling the 1990s. Since then, things have been up and down ...

Before playing Lex Luthor in the DC Universe’s Superman, Nicholas Hoult portrayed Beast in multiple X-Men films, and he’s once again expressed interested in reprising that role for an MCU reboot.

With the MCU's X-Men not taking the origin route, the new interpretation of Marvel's mutant heroes should heavily borrow from this classic comics run.