Tag: X-Men spinoff

NEW MUTANTS Movie Team Lineup Revealed?

New Mutants #21 courtesy Marvel
New Mutants #21 courtesy Marvel

Fans are counting down to X-Men: Apocalypse while speculating on which “new” New Mutants will appear in the next X-Men spinoff film.

Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) is writing and directing the upcoming New Mutants film. He’s been sharing images of classic comic book art featuring members of the team via Instagram.

The posts show the original lineup: Mirage, Sunspot, Cannonball, Wolfsbane and later additions Magik and Warlock.

Who are they and what can they do?

Mirage/Dani Moonstar projects illusions.

Sunspot/Roberto Da Costa appeared in an alternate future in X-Men: Days of Future Past and converts solar energy into super strength. Continue reading NEW MUTANTS Movie Team Lineup Revealed?

NEW MUTANTS Movie Update

New Mutants #15 courtesy Marvel
New Mutants #15 courtesy Marvel

Writer/director Josh Boone (The Fault In Our Stars) says the first script for X-Men spinoff New Mutants is complete.

Boone shared the update via Twitter including X-Men producer Simon Kinberg and co-writer Knate Gwaltney.

The New Mutants were a younger generation of Xavier students including the little sister of Colossus who would become known as Magik.

In comics New Mutants evolved into X-Force, a pro-active squad taking the fight to enemies of mutants. But the original New Mutants have often reunited. Magik is now on the main X-team while Sunspot and Cannonball are Avengers. Continue reading NEW MUTANTS Movie Update

LEA SEYDOUX: From JAMES BOND to GAMBIT?

Gambit #9 courtesy Marvel
Gambit #9 courtesy Marvel

From James Bond to Gambit?

Lea Seydoux has been offered the leading lady role opposite Channing Tatum in Gambit according to Deadline.

Channing Tatum is playing Remy LeBeau in the X-Men spinoff with director Rupert Wyatt.

Lea Seydoux is starring in the next James Bond film Spectre and starred in Blue is the Warmest Color, Inglourious Basterds and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.

Who is Seydoux playing? Continue reading LEA SEYDOUX: From JAMES BOND to GAMBIT?

NEW MUTANTS Movie Update

New Mutants #21 courtesy Marvel
New Mutants #21 courtesy Marvel

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

CHANNING TATUM Leaving GAMBIT?

Gambit #3 courtesy Marvel
Gambit #3 courtesy Marvel

The Gambit movie may be falling like a house of cards but can it recharge?

The deal between Channing Tatum and 20th Century Fox is in jeopardy and the star may exit the X-Men spinoff according to The Wrap.

This comes shortly after Tatum joined the casts of Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, Wolverine and Deadpool on stage at San Diego Comic-Con.

Director Rupert Wyatt and the studio are reportedly testing actresses to play the female lead including Lea Seydoux (soon to be seen in Spectre). Continue reading CHANNING TATUM Leaving GAMBIT?

NEW MUTANTS For Your Consideration

New Mutants courtesy Marvel
New Mutants courtesy Marvel

The New Mutants could be the next evolution of the X-Men film franchise. Fox recruited Josh Boone (The Fault In Our Stars) to direct a spinoff film based on the spinoff comic.

Teen angst, isolation, romantic crushes and finding new friends from diverse worlds – mixed with emerging mutant powers, danger room sessions and crazy villains – it’s all in a day at Xavier’s School. The New Mutants are perfect back to school basics to evolve the franchise.

Who will join the cast and who will they fight?

Here’s New Mutants 101: Continue reading NEW MUTANTS For Your Consideration

NEW MUTANTS Is Next FOX X-MEN Spinoff

The New Mutants graphic novel cover courtesy Marvel
The New Mutants graphic novel cover courtesy Marvel

Fox is evolving its X-Men franchise.

Josh Boone (The Fault In Our Stars) has signed on to direct a film based on New Mutants, a standalone spinoff according to Deadline. Boone will co-write with Knate Gwaltney. Simon Kinberg and Laura Shuler-Donner will produce.

“We’re so excited to explore this new part of the X-Men universe, and so excited to do it with Josh, who is uniquely suited to tell this story about young characters,” Kinberg told Deadline. Continue reading NEW MUTANTS Is Next FOX X-MEN Spinoff