We’ve lived through a couple generations now of movies with various iterations of Magneto, Charles Xavier, Mystique….you get the idea. Now, a fresh superhero torch is being lit with “The New Mutants,” and now we have our first look at the new school.
A cast of rising stars including Maisie Williams (“Game Of Thrones“), Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch, “Split“), and Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things“) lead the cast in this story that will follow a group of teenagers who are learning to grapple with their strange powers while being held in a secret facility. Josh Boone, the director of “The Fault In Our Stars,” makes an interesting pivot here to something much different than we’ve seen from him before.
“We are making a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe,” he said earlier this year. “There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different.”
“X-Men: The New Mutants” opens exactly six months from now, on April 13, 2018.