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Marvel's X-Men to start shooting in weeks, according to new report

You've met some of the MCU X-Men, now they're getting ready to start filming

Published on Wed Aug 19 2026

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We’ve met (some of) Marvel Studios’ X-Men, with the initial cast of the 2028 movie announced at D23 Expo 2026 last week — but when will the new generation of the Children of the Atom get in front of a camera? According to a website that tracks movie production in the UK, the answer is “sooner than you think.”

Per industry tracker Filmbase, X-Men is “expected to start [production] towards the end of summer” at a location to be confirmed, either Pinewood Studios in London or a location in Ireland. That’s not based on any official notice from Marvel or Disney; as the site notes, “it’s what we’ve pieced together from conversations with crew,” which means that things might change before any official announcement is made.

The mention of Pinewood as a location is a curious one; Disney has been working there for a number of years now, with the majority of Star Wars movies shooting at the studio, as well as Avengers: Doomsday — which is what makes the idea that X-Men might be shooting there so odd. After all, Avengers: Secret Wars is also meant to be shooting at Pinewood, with Filmbase itself reporting that production on that movie will ramp back up in September after a summer hiatus to allow the Russos to work on post-production for Doomsday. Could Pinewood be home to two separate Marvel productions simultaneously?

(Alternately, could X-Men be shooting scenes that tie in to Secret Wars in some way? That's not an entirely impossible scenario.)

That X-Men is this close to production, no matter the location, might feel a little early at first blush; Thunderbolts*, the previous Marvel movie from director Jake Schreier, shot a little over a year before release (February through June 2024, the movie as released May 2025). That said, Avengers: Doomsday completed production September 2025, 15 months before release, due to the amount of post-production necessary, and X-Men might be a similarly VFX and post-production-heavy movie.

X-Men will be released May 5, 2028.

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