That Kitty Pryde Movie From Director Tim Miller Is Dead

That ‘Kitty Pryde’ Movie From Director Tim Miller Is Dead

By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 4, 2019 5:00 pm EST

Last year, word broke that Deadpool director Tim Miller was developing a Kitty Pryde movie with writer Brian Michael Bendis. The project was going by the working-title 143, a reference to Uncanny X-Men No. 143, one of the first solo Kitty Pryde stories, in which the character goes head to head against a demon inside the X-Mansion. Earlier this year, the project was revealed to still be in the works, with Bendis offering an update stating he was hard at work on the script.

But now it appears that the Kitty Pryde film is dead. Speaking with Comicbook, Miller said: “I don’t expect Marvel to call me and say, ‘Come do the X-Men,’ so I’m not waiting for that. I was really excited about my Kitty Pryde movie. Fuck, I love that movie. It’ll never happen now.”

Then there’s the curious case of New Mutants. That X-Men-related film was set to open in April 2018, but then got pushed to February 2019. It was then pushed yet again to August 2019 – and then shuffled around one more time, landing on an April 2020 release date. Whether or not that actually happens is still up in the air. There’s always a chance Disney could dump it onto their streaming service Disney+. Or they could just push it back even further.