Originally published July 11, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
Director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) has taken to Instagram to reveal that production is now underway on X-Men: The New Mutants, with the filmmaker sharing an image of a clapperboard, complete with the movie’s working title ‘Growing Pains’.
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New Mutants is now the second X-Men movie that Fox has in production, with Deadpool 2 beginning filming a few weeks back. X-Men: Dark Phoenix is also slated to begin principal photography this month, with all three films set for release next year.
The film is said to be taking inspiration from the classic ‘Demon Bear’ story arc, and Boone has described the spinoff as “a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe”.
X-Men: The New Mutants is being directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars), while the cast includes Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) as Wolfsbane, Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) as Magik, Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) as Cannonball, Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why) as Sunspot, Blu Hunt (The Originals) as Danielle Moonstar and Alice Braga (Queen of the South) as Dr. Cecilia Reyes. It is set for release on April 13th 2018.
