Simon Kinberg has been involved with the Fox Marvel universe since first coming on board as a screenwriter for 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand. Since then, he’s been a writer and/or producer on every X-Men related film and TV show since, including high points like X-Men: Days of Future Past, Logan and Legion, as well as less well-regarded offerings like X-Men: Apocalypse.

Now he makes his directorial debut on the 12th and possibly last film in the Fox Marvel continuity, Dark Phoenix, a retelling of the classic story that was mishandled in X-Men: The Last Stand (a.k.a. X3). The film arrives following the completion of Disney’s purchase of Fox, which will allow Disney’s Marvel Studios to (presumably) reboot characters like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

During a talk with reporters this weekend at WonderCon in Anaheim, California, Den of Geek asked Kinberg if he’d like to stay on and keep working on X-movies under the MCU umbrella.

“I would love to continue to work on these movies,” he replied. “I love these characters, and we’ll see what form it takes as this merger evolves. It’s in its earlier stages, I think it just closed last week or whatever it was, so we’ll see what the future plans are, but yeah I would like to continue to work on it because I love these characters.