It looks like the X-Men franchise is alive and well over at FOX as Josh Boone’s upcoming entry is the beginning of a new trilogy.
The director, talking about the upcoming superhero movie, explained his plan when he approached FOX and why he wanted to make it: “We had loved this X-Men spinoff, The New Mutants. We had loved Bill Sienkiewicz’s run with Chris Claremont that had Demon Bear. It was really dark, interesting, and different from the typical X-Men stories that we had read.
“After I made ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ we made Fox a comic book. It walked them through a trilogy of New Mutant films that would build on each other. We used this program called Comic Life, and took all the images we had loved from the series and strung them together to show them the movie we wanted to do.
“We brought it to Simon and he really liked it. We’ve been going for the past year and a half to get it ready, and I’m about to go location scout and we have a release date now.”
So a New Mutants trilogy, huh? We can certainly get behind that and as for the name of The Fault In Our Stars’ director’s movie? Well, it is called: X-Men: The New Mutants.
Well, it says all it needs to, doesn’t it?
Latest word on the street has it filming next May with a Spring 2018 release.
Are you looking forward to the next step into the X-Universe? Let us know.
Oh, and speaking of X-Men, here’s a new trailer for Legion
In this war, he’s the key. Watch the latest trailer for Legion, the new original series from FX and @Marvel. Premieres 2/8. #LegionFX pic.twitter.com/n5OuAxKpls
— Legion (@LegionFX) December 5, 2016
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