Patrick Stewart says he's spoken with Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios about the re-gained the rights to use the X-Men and Fantastic Four in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Although Marvel Studios scrubbed clean of its references to the Fox X-Men universe, in case Feige decides to fold its characters into the MCU at a certain point in Phase 5.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Stewart confirmed he met with Feige a couple of months ago and had "long, long conversations" with him about the X-Men movies, saying there have been "moves and suggestions, which include Charles Xavier". But before anyone reads too much into that, Stewart added he isn't planning to return as Professor X in the MCU, explaining "Here's the problem... If we had not made Logan, then yes, I would probably be ready to get into that wheelchair one more time and be Charles Xavier. But Logan changed all that".
His statement echoes recent comments Stewart made about Logan, the X-Men movies, and Star Trek, ahead of his highly anticipated return as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in this week's it was because of his good experience on Logan Stewart became interested in reprising Picard in the first place.
It's difficult to argue with Stewart on this point. Logan gave his version of Professor X Deadpool and The New Mutants) into the MCU.
Source: Digital Spy
