By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 4/1/2016
I woke up this morning to some news where I had to check the date on when it was reported, but it looks like Drew over at HitFix got this in a bit before the clock struck midnight on the east coast, so here we go… Earlier yesterday, Drew had already reported that Alexandra Shipp […]
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 5/13/2015
Per Deadline, 20th Century Fox has closed a deal on its latest X-Men franchise spin-off, as writer/director Josh Boone (The Fault in our Stars) is set to co-script and direct The New Mutants. Boone will co-write the script for this new stand-alone with Knate Gwaltney (Cardboard Boxer).
Fox’s Marvel “godfather” Simon Kinberg, who will be producing The New Mutants alongside Lauren Shuler Donner, had this to say:
We’re so excited to explore this new part of the X-Men universe. And so excited to do it with Josh, who is uniquely suited to tell this story about young characters.
I’m not much of an X-Men fan, but I always remember loving The New Mutants, especially once Bill Sienkiewicz came on board with some of most gorgeously detailed art my young eyes had ever seen in a comic. Eventually the Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod created series became X-Force, which has also been rumored for the big screen treatment. It’s likely that this project may stalled that possibility for the time being.
Boone has a busy schedule of late, as he’s currently set to adapt Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles for Universal (in another attempt at jump-starting that series) and Stephen King‘s The Stand for Warner Bros. It’s likely this film will see release in 2018.
By: Maryann Yin,
on 2/20/2013
Fox 2000 has brought on filmmaker Josh Boone to direct The Fault in Our Stars movie adaptation. Last year, Boone wrote and directed an original film called Stuck in Love.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, the screenwriting duo behind (500) Days of Summer, will write the script. Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, the producers of The Twilight Saga film franchise, will produce this project.
As of this writing, John Green‘s popular young-adult novel has spent eleven weeks on the New York Times young-adult bestsellers list.
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Fox has already said Drew’s rumor is untrue.
Thanks Chris! I just caught that a short bit ago (the perils of these reports that happen while I’m tucked away in bed). Wouldn’t be the first time a studio denied something that ended up being true though, we’ll see soon enough I’m sure!
Amazing to think it was 35 years ago that the New Mutants lineup consisted of more females than males, and only one of the team, Cannonball, was a WASP male. Try that now and the misogynist-revanchist wing of the net would never let Marvel hear the end of it.