The second season of Beef delved into the often messy complications of modern relationships, and for one of his next projects, creator Lee Sung Jin will be examining the same dynamic through a slightly more super lens.
After working with director Jake Scheier on the script for Thunderbolts, Lee is reteaming with his Beef collaborator on the filmmaker’s next project, Marvel Studios’ yet-untitled standalone X-Men movie. Gold Derby caught up with Lee to talk about the most recent season of the Netflix anthology series and conversation briefly touched on his next team-up with Scheier.
“It’s going great,” Lee said of the writing process. “It’s really early, but Jake Schreier has such a clear vision for what he wants out of this movie that [Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige and co-President Louis D’Esposito] are fully supportive of.”
As they did on Thunderbolts, Lee and Scheier are working with Beef consulting producer and writer Joanna Calo on the script. “We’re going in every day into Marvel in a big room,” Lee said. “We’re in there all day long, and we’ve got all the X-Men characters up on the board. I’m very excited for a character-driven story. I think that’s Jake and Kevin and Lou’s vision for this, getting back to character first.”
In describing the X-Men project as “character first,” Lee likens this new take to the era of the comics overseen by writer Chris Claremont, who steered the mutants from 1975 to 1991. “There were so many juicy, soapy subplots, inner character dynamics [in the Claremont era], which, as a writer, those are the things that excite you the most.”
There’s currently no official release date for Marvel Studios’ standalone X-Men film, but with iterations of the characters from the 20th Century Fox series set to appear in Avengers: Doomsday later this year, expect more news on this front soon.
