X-Males ’97 creator Beau DeMayo has confirmed a casting rumor concerning the upcoming second season.
X-Males ’97 premiered on Disney+ in March 2024. The present, which serves as a revival of X-Males: The Animated Collection, was created by DeMayo. DeMayo, nonetheless, was fired from the present proper across the time the primary season premiered after he accomplished engaged on the primary two seasons.
What X-Males ’97 casting rumor did Beau DeMayo verify?
Earlier this week, scooper MyTimeToShineHello reported that Scream star Neve Campbell can be enjoying the X-Males character Polaris within the MCU. ComicBookMovie later reported that Campbell had really been employed to voice Polaris in X-Males ’97 Season 2 reasonably than play the character in live-action.
On X, DeMayo responded to a publish saying that Campbell would star as a live-action Polaris and confirmed that she’s going to as an alternative be in X-Males ’97 Season 2.
“Incorrect. I solid her as Polaris in Season 2 of #xmen97,” DeMayo wrote. “She does superb work bringing one thing new, and felt proper to have a 90s icon decide up the place Lorna’s story was left in “Chilly Consolation. She’s bought some ideas on Genosha.”
Incorrect. I solid her as Polaris in Season 2 of #xmen97. She does superb work bringing one thing new, and felt proper to have a 90s icon decide up the place Lorna’s story was left in “Chilly Consolation.”
She’s bought some ideas on Genosha. https://t.co/WKrSbghWsu— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) Might 13, 2025
Campbell is finest recognized for taking part in Sidney Prescott within the Scream franchise, a task she’ll quickly be seen reprising in Scream 7, which shall be launched in February 2026. Her filmography additionally contains 1996’s The Craft, 1998’s Wild Issues, 2000’s Panic, 2003’s The Firm, 2018’s Skyscraper, and extra. In tv, Campbell has had roles in collection equivalent to Catwalk, Celebration of 5, Medium, The Philanthropist, Home of Playing cards, The Lincoln Lawyer, and Twisted Metallic, amongst different titles.
Created by Arnold Drake and Jim Steranko, Polaris first appeared in Marvel Comics in 1986’s The X-Males #49. She is the daughter of Magneto and, just like her father, has the power to regulate magnetism. The character beforehand appeared in Fox’s The Gifted, a Marvel Comics present set in a distinct timeline than the Fox X-Males collection that ran for 2 seasons, the place she was performed by Emma Dumont.
A premiere date for X-Males ’97 Season 2 has not but been introduced.
Initially reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.
