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Fox announces X-Men spin-off The New Mutants, Josh Boone to direct

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Not content with the upcoming spinoffs Deadpool and Gambit, 20th Century Fox has announced it is expanding the X-Men universe further with The New Mutants, with Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) signing on to direct and co-write. “We’re so excited to explore this new part of the X-Men universe, and so excited to […]

UPDATE: Josh Boone talks X-Men: The New Mutants, has plans for a trilogy of films

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Back in May of last year, The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone signed on to develop a New Mutants movie for 20th Century Fox. With the X-Men spinoff now gearing up for a spring shoot, the filmmaker has been chatting to Creative Screenwriting about his plans for the project, seemingly confirming the rumours […]

Director Josh Boone teases New Mutants lineup

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While the world still basks in the greatness of Deadpool and the looks ahead to the release of X-Men: Apocalypse, a sprawling X-Men cinematic universe is still in the works behind the scenes at 20th Century Fox. Not only are we getting more sequels like Wolverine 3 and Deadpool 2 and a solo Gambit movie, but we’ll soon be introduced to another team of mutants as well, […]

Josh Boone says The Stand is going to be a four-part adaptation “at the highest level you can do it”

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If you were wondering how Warner Bros. and director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) were planning on fitting Stephen King’s apocaltyptic epic The Stand into one single film, it seems we now have the answer… they aren’t. Speaking to Kevin Smith on the Hollywood Babble-On podcast, Boone has revealed that he has convinced […]

Matthew McConaughey tipped for villain role in The Stand

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Matthew McConaughey has been tipped to play the villain of the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand directed by Josh Boone. According to The Guardian, Matthew McConaughey will play Randall Flagg, a grinning cowboy with supernatural powers who establishes a power base in the ruins of Las Vegas. The project is being backed by Warner […]

Stephen King adaptation The Stand reportedly reworked as ten-hour miniseries

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Back in January of 2011, Warner Bros. Pictures and CBS Films announced plans to produce a big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic epic The Stand, with the likes of David Yates (Harry Potter), Ben Affleck (Argo) and Scott Cooper (Hostiles) linked to the director’s chair before Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) officially […]

Maisie Williams discusses the delay and “frightening” tone of The New Mutants

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Currently doing the press rounds for Aardman Animation’s Early Man (read our review here), Maisie Williams has been addressing the almost-year long delay for Josh Boone’s mutant asylum horror, The New Mutants. When Collider spoke to the actress about the movie being pushed back from April 13, 2018 to February 22nd , 2019, she had the following […]

X-Men: The New Mutants director shares storyboard art

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Following the first trailer for The New Mutants [watch it here], director Josh Boone has now taken to Instagram to share three storyboards for the horror-focussed X-Men spinoff which you can check out here… SEE ALSO: X-Men: The New Mutants is “a haunted-house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers” https://www.instagram.com/p/BaMmlbIDyOY/?taken-by=joshboonemovies https://www.instagram.com/p/BaMlYGLjtZx/?taken-by=joshboonemovies https://www.instagram.com/p/BaMjix7j-cz/?taken-by=joshboonemovies   X-Men: The New […]

X-Men spinoff The New Mutants gets a first trailer

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20th Century Fox has debuted the first trailer for director Josh Boone’s upcoming X-Men spinoff movie The New Mutants, and – just as promised – the film certainly has much more of a horror feel than that of a superhero movie; check it out here, and let us know what you make of the trailer in […]