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NEW MUTANTS Movie Update

Among the recent excitement for the Deadpool trailer and X-Men: Apocalypse previews, X-Fans may have forgotten there’s a New Mutants movie in the works.

Director and co-writer Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) gave fans a big reminder via Instagram showing his progress on the script.

“#X-Men #NewMutants not done yet but we have a lot of pages”

Boone is co-writing with Knate Gwaltney. Simon Kinberg and Lauren Shuler-Donner are producing the potential spinoff. No official date has been set yet. Continue reading NEW MUTANTS Movie Update

NEW MUTANT Leads “NEW” NEW AVENGERS

There’s a new take on the New Avengers when the All-New, All-Different Marvel Now arrives this Fall.

New Mutants fans will be thrilled to see Roberto DaCosta aka Sunspot is taking the lead of New Avengers by Al Ewing and Gerardo Sandoval.

Sunspot and Cannonball were brought out of the X-Men shadows and recruited by Tony Stark and Steve Rogers to Avengers under Jonathan Hickman’s run. Bobby and Sam were part of the Avengers World spinoff.

Bobby took over the evil think tank known A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics) and formed what you might call an outlaw Avengers team. Continue reading NEW MUTANT Leads “NEW” NEW AVENGERS

X-MEN Wild Card In AVENGERS TIME RUNS OUT

What’s Cyclops doing on the cover of Avengers #38?

What until see inside!

The X-Men Revolution leader is the wild card in the latest chapter of Time Runs Out set in the near future before Secret Wars.

But with writer Jonathan Hickman there are no wild cards in his elaborately plotted epic that began with Avengers World and building up the comics event of 2015.

While the Avengers been battling the Builders, Thanos and A.I.M. – the Illuminati (Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Black Bolt, Beast, Namor) have committed unheroic acts (brainwashed Steve Rogers, destroy other planets) to save Earth from incusions from other Earths in the Marvel multiverse. The action jumped into near future with heroes vs. heroes, unholy alliances and an array of classic Marvel weapons like the Ultimate Nullifier. Continue reading X-MEN Wild Card In AVENGERS TIME RUNS OUT

NEW MUTANTS In X-MEN APOCALYPSE? For Your Consideration

The New Mutants graphic novel cover courtesy Marvel

X-Men: Days of Future Past introduced two new mutants from the New Mutants era to the cinematic Children of the Atom. With the news that X-Men: Apocalypse will be set in 1983 I couldn’t help but think of popular mutants born in the 80’s.

In Days of Future Past, Sunspot (Adan Canto) got to use his solar energy powers against the Sentinels. Producers chose to amp the Brazilian mutant’s power beyond just super strength. Roberto Da Costa could fly and blast heat at the relentless robots. Sunspot was one of the founding members of the New Mutants.

Warpath (Boo Boo Stewart) used his tracking ability, super strength and fighting skills with big — knives against the Sentinels. Warpath actually started out as a Hellion (a student of Emma Frost and the Hellfire Club.) James Proudstar blamed Professor X for his older brother’s death and joined the Hellions in his quest for revenge by taking his brother’s X-Men code-name Thunderbird. James would later reform and join Cable’s original X-Force then become an official X-Man.

Could more third and fourth generation X-Men join the next sequel in the fight against Apocalypse? Continue reading NEW MUTANTS In X-MEN APOCALYPSE? For Your Consideration

X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST MTV Clip

Ellen Page introduced an exciting clip from X-Men: Days of Future Past at the MTV Movie Awards.

In the future mutant hunting robots attack. Kitty Pryde (Page) Colossus (Daniel Cudmore) and Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) lead brand new mutants Blink, Warpath, Bishop and Sunspot defending their embattled base from a swarm of Sentinels. Fans of Bobby Drake have to be thrilled to see Iceman at his full omega level potential. Blink is a fan favorite mutant from the Generation X era who died too soon but is alive and shows off her incredible teleporting power. Sunspot (Adan Canto) and Bishop (Omar Sy) share their solar projection and energy absorption powers on the invading Sentinels.

Watch the MTV clip again here: Continue reading X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST MTV Clip

X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST TV Spot

Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy in X-Men Days of Future Past courtesy Fox

Fox unveils the first television spot for X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Featuring the voice of Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) the spot shows the apocalyptic future in which mutants are in a losing war with robots called Sentinels.

The story is based on the classic story by Chris Claremont in which the X-Men of the future send one of their own into the past to change destiny.

With plenty of action from new mutants (Blink, Sunspot) and favorites like Wolverine here’s the spot:

Continue reading X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST TV Spot

X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 4 New Shots

X-Men: Day of Future Past courtesy Empire — X-Men: Days of Future Past courtesy Empire

Empire has a grip on mutant goodies from X-Men: Day of Future Past. In the aftermath of the magazine’s 25 cover reveals – here are 4 new shots from the upcoming film.

The Bryan Singer directed sequel/prequel unites the cast of X-Men: First Class with stars from the first trilogy. The story is based on the classic Chris Claremont story set in two time periods as mutants from a war-ravaged future attempt to rewrite their own history. Continue reading X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 4 New Shots

AVENGERS WORLD #1 Review

Captain America declared Earth an Avengers World when Marvel Now kicked off a new era under Jonathan Hickman.

The All-New Marvel Now kicks off with a global mystery in Avengers World #1. The action begins in the amazing collection of prologue stories in All-New Marvel Now Point One. Continue reading AVENGERS WORLD #1 Review

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