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?
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.
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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