Looks Like Fox's NEW MUTANTS Director Is A Lifelong X-MEN Fan

New Mutants director Josh Boone has shared his lifelong passion for comic books with X-Men fans via Twitter. With a (presumably) younger cast, should the film focus on more interpersonal stories?

By MarkJulian - May 16, 2015 09:05 AM EST

Filed Under: New Mutants

Josh Boone, coming off the well-received, The Fault in Our Stars, just landed a big gig with 20th Century Fox, directing and writing a new X-Men spinoff film, the New Mutants. X-Men fans should breathe a sigh of relief as Boone and his fellow co-writer Knate Gwaltney, are lifelong comic book and X-Men fans as evidenced in the photos Boone tweeted a short while ago.

Created by Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod in 1982, the New Mutants comic book followed a new, younger group of students at the Charles Xavier School For Gifted Youngsters. The original team consists of Cannonball (invulnerable human rocket), Karma (telepath), Mirage aka Dani Moonstar (manifests empathic 3D illusions), Sunspot (solar powered flight and strength) and Wolfsbane (werewolf transformation). Rather than trying to save the mutant race, the New Mutants stories typically focused on what it meant to grow up away from home, possessing awesome and terrible super powers. Typical themes tackled by Claremont and McLeod included teenage angst, hormones, diversity, discrimination and acceptance.

My X-Men collection. This is only a small part of my comic library. pic.twitter.com/AJP2fIddyP
— Josh Boone (@JoshBooneMovies) May 14, 2015

#XMenUniverse Fans...#TheNewMutants are in good hands with @JoshBooneMovies. #NuffSaid http://t.co/WuigDeK13W pic.twitter.com/02kfd7sVWN
— Mutant 101 (@M101_Mutant101) May 14, 2015

Me and #NewMutants co-writer @KnateLee absorbed in comics when we were kids! pic.twitter.com/Y9dqlZYxI6
— Josh Boone (@JoshBooneMovies) May 14, 2015

Given the original themes tackled in the New Mutants, and Boone's past work on The Fault in Our Stars, perhaps the New Mutants film will be fueled by internal dealings and events at the school rather than impending disasters and catastrophe's manifesting outside of the school grounds?

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GhostDog - 5/16/2015, 10:05 AM

I have more xmen comics than that hahaha. He late to the game jk lol

14 - 5/16/2015, 10:05 AM

This is great news as I was sceptical about him taking this on

GhostDog - 5/16/2015, 10:06 AM

What if just bought all those right before taking the pic jk jk jk

Invictor - 5/16/2015, 10:06 AM

I have more hope in what this guy is doing. If he decides to change up the roster or anything else, I know it will probably be for the better based on his encyclopedic knowledge of the X-Men universe.

GhostDog - 5/16/2015, 10:06 AM

Looks like he'S a true fan. Looks great

GhostDog - 5/16/2015, 10:07 AM

Could he be a viable candidate to take over the x men universe after Singer??? If he embraces the colorful costumes and more fantastical adventures (I want genosha and savage land) I'm game.

MFDOOM - 5/16/2015, 10:07 AM

"Hey, here's a picture of me with some comics! You know what this means, right? I'll automatically direct this franchise better than any other director!"

BlackIceJoe - 5/16/2015, 10:08 AM

I hope he will let these Mutants wear supersuits. Supersuits make the characters more interesting and is another way to show off their personality.

Saoshyant - 5/16/2015, 10:09 AM

Let's hope his ability to make good movies is on par to his love for comics.

spidey1994 - 5/16/2015, 10:11 AM

Nice!

chriskrispy - 5/16/2015, 10:12 AM

Just give them costumes. For the love of Christ, keep them out of leather

BlackIceJoe - 5/16/2015, 10:14 AM

I hope some day Omega Red, Polaris, Shadow King & Avalanche will be in the films. Astroid M would be another cool thing to show. I'd also enjoy seeing Shadowcat have her pet dragon.

BlackIceJoe - 5/16/2015, 10:15 AM

*asteroid

AdversaryX - 5/16/2015, 10:15 AM

This is a good sign. I like the Bryan Singer, but it's obvious he wasn't a huge fan of X-men before doing the movies.

NicolausCopernicus - 5/16/2015, 10:15 AM

what happened to that planned tv show?

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=114281

blackandyellow - 5/16/2015, 10:17 AM

The Mutant Cinematic Universe keeps growing.

Reasonnnn - 5/16/2015, 10:17 AM

NERDDDDDDDD

good to hear. sounds better than Singer already.

MrCBM56 - 5/16/2015, 10:19 AM

So much for the MCU being over after Wolverine 3.

SpiderFraud - 5/16/2015, 10:20 AM

He had to show some proof since he knew the fans would go ape shit about him being attached.

MrCBM56 - 5/16/2015, 10:24 AM

Also, the Juggarnaut vs Colossus bar fight remains one of my favorite panels ever. X3 [frick]ed up in so many ways.

TheEpicJuicebox - 5/16/2015, 10:25 AM

Kind of wishing that this was an Xforce movie :/ with deadpool, x23, fantomex, domino, etc

ATrueHero1987 - 5/16/2015, 10:26 AM

I like that collection, and that's not all of it!

DallasAvenger - 5/16/2015, 10:30 AM

I hope they go with the real New Mutants and not just a random group of young mutants and call them the New Mutants.

blackandyellow - 5/16/2015, 10:31 AM

@Doopie

It'll catch on eventually.

Darktower - 5/16/2015, 10:33 AM

impressive!

BlackPhillip - 5/16/2015, 10:33 AM

@NicolausCopernicus

Maybe they couldn't work out a deal with Marvel, so we're getting this movie instead.

mrHJK - 5/16/2015, 10:37 AM

He really needed this job... :/ poor guy can't afford shelves

MyNameIsKhan - 5/16/2015, 10:38 AM

LOL^^^^^

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