With X-Men:Apocalypse, Deadpool, and what is believed to Hugh Jackman’s last hurrah as Wolverine already coming down the track, 20th Century...
With X-Men:Apocalypse, Deadpool, and what is believed to Hugh Jackman’s last hurrah as Wolverine already coming down the track, 20th Century Fox have another spin-off from their highly successful X-Men franchise in the works, with Deadline reporting the studio have officially announced The New Mutants (whose book incidentally featured the first appearance of Deadpool), which focuses on a team of young mutants training at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters to one day be called X-Men. Two members of The New Mutants have already appeared in X-Men: Days of Future Past, Sunspot (Adan Canto) and Warpath (Booboo Stewart).
Fox have handed the reins of this new spin-off to The Fault in our Stars director Josh Boone, who will also pen the script alongside Knate Gwaltney (Kidnap and Cardboard Boxer, both in post-production). This marks the third big adaption currently on Boone’s plate, slotting alongside The Vampire Chronicles, based on the Anne Rice novels, and Stephen King’s The Stand. While not confirmed, The New Mutants more than likely puts paid to Jeff Wadlow’s planned X-Force spin-off, which we haven’t heard much of since it went into development in 2013, with the cast members of The New Mutants becoming founding members of X-Force, after the original book concluded with it’s 100th issue.
No release date has been set for The New Mutants, but Fox have already set an X-Men movie for 2018, so it could take that spot.
