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New Mutants Movie Animatic Reveals Villain

 

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The signal-to-noise ratio on The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone's adaptation of Marvel Comics's New Mutants is pretty high, so whenever something reasonably concrete comes out about the project, fans get excited.

 

Tonight, one of the bigger pieces of the puzzle -- the film's villain -- fell into place when an animatic from the in-development X-Men spinoff in the form of an animatic that features Magik, Wolfsbane, and Cannonball facing off against Demon Bear, a threat that feeds off negative human emotion in the same way Vigo the Carpathian did in Ghotbusters II.

 

Demon Bear also has supernatural strength and senses, teleportation, transformation -- oh, and he can corrupt your soul.

 

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Nat Wolff Reportedly Eyed For Cannonball In New Mutants

 

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The New Mutants film has been in development at 20th Century Fox for a few years now, but it looks like its development has suddenly picked up speed. The movie is now reportedly set for a Spring 2018 release, just a few months after Deadpool 2 is due in theaters. The film, being produced by longtime X-Men Movies producer Simon Kinberg had an animatic released by ComingSoon.net, along with a slew of news.

 

Nat Wolff, known for his work in teenage relationship films like Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars, and who is the main star of the 2017 live-action anime adaptation Death Note, is reportedly the top targeted actor for the role of Sam Guthrie, Cannonball.

 

Guthrie was one of the original founding members of the New Mutants, the younger generation of the X-Men. He comes from a large family, and a couple of his siblings wound up having an active mutant gene, as well, but that was further down the road. Guthrie's chosen mutant name, Cannonball, was reflective of his ability to fly with a jet of fire at high speeds. He is invulnerable when in flight, as well, but if he stops, he's as vulnerable as the rest of us. There's more to the character (and his family) that was revealed throughout the decades, but it's unlikely to make it into the film. He currently serves as a member of one of the off-shoot Avengers teams in the pages of Marvel Comics.

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The next X-Franchise movie.

 

NEW MUTANTS Confirmed For 2017 Filming

 

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Yesterday we reported that a new X-Men movie was starting production in Montreal in spring of 2017, but didn't have all the details about which film from the X-Men movie universe would be going in front of cameras.

 

Today, we have a followup to that same story that basically answers the question of the mysterious production, and it seems as though it will be none other than X-Men spinoff New Mutants that shoots in 2017!

 

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The Official Title Of The NEW MUTANTS Movie And Its Production Start Date May Have Been Revealed

 

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Director Josh Boone seemed to confirm that he was set to begin shooting his New Mutants movie in Montreal around April, but a new report from Le Journal de Montreal (via Omega Underground) suggests that it'll commence production the slightly later in May, and also lists the film's title as "X-Men: The New Mutants."

 

In a separate interview with Creative Screenwriting, Boone discusses which New Mutants comics were the inspiration for the -script he and co-writer/childhood friend Knate Gwaltney turned in, and reveals that they originally pitched a trilogy to Simon Kinberg.

 

"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."

 

The New Mutants movie is currently set for release in 2018.

 

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X-Men: The New Mutants Pitched As Trilogy, Director Talks Demon Bear

 

While Boone has teased possible the film’s possible cast of characters and show off cover pages for several drafts of the X-Men: The New Mutants -script, it only in a recent interview with Creative Screenwriting that Boone spoke directly about how he came to control the future of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise.

 

“After I made The Fault in Our Stars, we made Fox a comic book,” Boone explains. “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 [producer] Simon [Kinberg] 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.”

 

Boone mentioned that the comic book featured artwork from The New Mutants comic books that he and co-writer Knate Gwaltney loved. What comics would that be? Here’s a clue:

 

“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.”

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So which is the key Demon Bear book - NM #3 (cameo in hallucination) or NM #18 (1st full appearance)? :devil:

 

1st full appearance is typically the book to have isn't it?

 

espeicailly if he's on the cover

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X-Men: New Mutants Director Thinks About The Movie Everywhere He Goes

 

Over the year, Boone has been teasing fans about his work on New Mutants, but it looks like the director can’t bring himself to stop thinking about the project. Over on Instagram, Boone has made it clear that he thinks about the film everywhere he goes. And, yes, that does mean everywhere.

 

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Boone took a photo from inside his shower that shows its wet door and a few alphabet stickers. The words ‘New Mutants’ can be seen tacked to the door and its condensation.

 

So, clearly, Boone cannot escape the looming film even in the privacy of his bathroom.

 

Of course, the director does have plenty to think over when it comes to New Mutants. Boone, who has been hard at work on -script revision, recently did an interview with Creative Screenwriting where he talked about the ambitious movie. Boone even went on to describe how he became involved with the movie.

 

“After I made The Fault in Our Stars, we made Fox a comic book,” Boone said. “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 [producer] Simon [Kinberg] 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.”

 

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Josh Boone Shares NEW MUTANTS Artwork Featuring Maisie Williams As Wolfsbane

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Last year, an awesome animatic was released for New Mutants showing the fan-favourite heroes battling Demon Bear. That was illustrated by Ashley Guillory, and now director Josh Boone has taken to Twitter to share another piece of artwork, this time featuring her take on Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane. Now, we should probably caution that there's nothing to say this is official concept art for the movie, but Guillory is clearly involved, so it's certainly isn't just some fan-art! 

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Josh Boone’s New Mutants Officially Begins Pre-Production

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New Mutants writer/director Josh Boone teases the beginning of pre-production on 20th Century Fox’s upcoming X-Men series film. Logan is just the latest movie in the X-Men franchise, but it definitely won’t be the last. Even though Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, as Wolverine and Professor X, have now said goodbye to the characters they first portrayed almost 17 years ago, a whole new set of actors are now ready to take the series in multiple directions. An X-Force film guest starring Deadpool is currently in development under Ryan Reynolds and co-writer/director Joe Carnahan. Meanwhile after many years in limbo, Gambit starring Channing Tatum may finally begin filming in 2018.

 

Yet before both of those movies grace our screens, Boone’s New Mutants is reported to make its theatrical debut early next year. Based on the comic book of the same name, New Mutants will follow recent Xavier School graduates Magik, Wolfsbane, Mirage, Cannonball, Sunspot, and Warlock as they learn to control their powers and, of course, fight bad guys like Demon Bear. James McAvoy may also reprise his role in the film as a young Professor X. It’ll reportedly be a young adult-style movie but with a twist since it has been described as Stephen King meets John Hughes.

 

Now Boone on his Instagram has revealed that New Mutants will begin filming very soon and has officially begun pre-production. In the first image below, the production offices rang in Boone’s birthday on April 5 and the start of their work on the film with a double celebration. It’s full speed ahead now, as in the second image the director stares off into the distance, deep in thought, on the Fox lot in Los Angeles. There’s a lot of prep to be done before production can even begin.

 

Filming is rumored to start in May, so there may only one month left to go to finalize all the details and nail down the actors.

 

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