Josh Boone To Direct X-Men Spin-Off, THE NEW MUTANTS, For Fox
Time will tell what the future holds for Professor Charles Xavier and his team of heroic mutants when Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse arrives next year in May. In the meantime, Fox is reportedly devloping a spin-off from their current franchise titled The New Mutants, and has officially closed a deal with The Faults In Our Stars helmer Josh Boone to write and direct.
At least one rumor as of last month was that X-Men: Apocalypse would cap-off Singer’s end of the X-Men cinematic universe at Fox while franchise lead actor Hugh Jackman sends off his iconic role as character Logan in a third Wolverine film under James Mangold for 2017. Bearing all this in mind, this could bring some validity to a new volume of stories for the X-Men saga. Seven films in under different directors, the current franchise has done well for itself in contributing to well over a decade of superhero movie as we’ve moved over into a new age of fandom with Marvel’s MCU and Warner Bros. with their DC Comics slate among others, and with plenty more stories in the cards, including a live-action return to television in the works, clearly Fox has no intentions of letting go of what so far works.
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