New Mutants (film)

New Mutants is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is intended to be the eleventh installment in the X-Men film series. The film is being directed by Josh Boone from a screenplay by himself and Knate Lee, and stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Charlie Heaton, Henry Zaga, Blu Hunt, and Alice Braga. In New Mutants, a group of young mutants held in a secret facility fight to save themselves.

Boone and Lee first began work on the film after Boone completed work on The Fault in Our Stars, the pair having been fans of the New Mutants growing up together. They pitched a potential film trilogy to X-Men producer Simon Kinberg, and in May 2015 were officially signed on to the film. Taylor-Joy and Williams were rumored to be cast in March 2016, and were confirmed over a year later when the rest of the cast began to fill out and the project was revealed to be a horror film inspired by the works of Stephen King and John Hughes. Filming began in Boston in July 2017.

New Mutants is scheduled to be released on April 13, 2018.

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

After completing work on the 2014 film The Fault in Our Stars for 20th Century Fox, director Josh Boone created a comic book with Knate Lee using panels from Chris Claremont's New Mutants comics to illustrate what a potential film trilogy adapting those comics would be like. The pair, best friends since childhood, had been fans of the characters growing up, with Boone calling their stories "really dark, interesting, and different from the typical X-Men stories that we had read." They took the comic to Simon Kinberg, one of the producers of the X-Men film series, who "really liked it"; in May 2015, Fox finalized a deal to have Boone direct The New Mutants, from a script by himself and Lee, with Kinberg and Lauren Shuler Donner producing. The film would be a standalone spinoff film, expanding the universe of the X-Men films.