Kit Connor, the 21-year-old British actor who became a global phenomenon through Netflix's Heartstopper and earned critical praise for his role in A24's Warfare earlier this year, has been cast as Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, in Marvel Studios' X-Men reboot directed by Jake Schreier. Connor is the third actor to play Cyclops in a live-action X-Men film, following James Marsden, who is reprising the original Fox-era version of the character in Avengers: Doomsday in December, and Tye Sheridan, who played him in X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix. Connor won out. Sadie Sink as Jean Grey and Connor as Cyclops means both leads will be young British and American rising stars. The X-Men reboot is beginning to take shape.