'X-Men: New Mutants' was Pitched as a Trilogy by Director Josh Boone
News is ramping up for X-Men: The New Mutants, a young-adult-inspired spinoff set in the X-Men world being written and directed by Josh Boone. Boone helmed The Fault in Our Stars, and while New Mutants is just one of several projects he's working on, this one looks like his number one priority right now.
Speaking with Creative Screenwriting, Boone revealed just how he came to pitch the idea to 20th Century Fox, who instantly took to his concept. "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.”
No release date has been made public yet, but we can expect to know for sure soon. It's also the first we've heard of a planned trilogy for the New Mutants.
“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.”
Source: Comicbook
