20th Century Fox has announced a New Mutants spin-off/tie-in to their Marvel X-Men franchise. Josh Boone (The Fault In Our Stars) will direct, and he has co-written the script with Knate Gwaltney. Casting announced so far:
Ororo Munroe/Storm: Alexandra Shipp (also plays Storm in this summer's X-Men: Apocalypse)
Illyana Rasputin/Majik: Anya Taylor-Joy (Thomasin in The Witch, Cassandra in Atlantis)
Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane: Maisie Williams (Arya Stark in Game of Thrones, Ashildr/Lady Me in Doctor Who)
Charles Xavier/Professor X: James McAvoy (also plays Xavier in this summer's X-Men: Apocalypse and its two predecessors)
Hm.
Freehold is not sure how to feel.
New mutants is my first love, moreso than x-men. That said it was very much a product of its time. I don't know if a hipstery version would work.
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Rahne is a good sign, she's one of my favorites. Ilyanna's kind of a hot mess of a character, and after seeing Blink in that last X-Men movie, I'm not sure if she'd be redundant. (Her whole Belasco/Darkchylde arc kind of warrants it's own movie, 'cause it's super-complicated.)
Argh. The movie is happening, but Fox is denying the casting news. :( The news broke on 3/31, so I assumed it was not an April Fool's, but maybe it was just wishful rumoring.
Sorry everyone.
Sooooo... The Cypher/Psylocke love story? Warlock and the Magus story? Asgard? I am not sure how to feel. Agree with product of its time.
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Sooooo... The Cypher/Psylocke love story? Warlock and the Magus story? Asgard? I am not sure how to feel. Agree with product of its time.
Warlock seems way to 'big' for a starting New Mutants team (since the original five had some pretty strong limitations / a lower power level).
The same with Amara/Magma, for that matter (although introducing her opens up the introduction of Selene, perhaps the New Mutants most iconic and lasting villain).
Asgard seems right out, being that Fox doesn't have permission to touch the Thor side of the Marvel universe.
Cypher/Psylocke was kind of a footnote (one I liked, but still), and I'm not sure if Cypher goes the other direction and has powers / abilities that are too subtle for the big screen. Although, Psylocke as one of the team's adult mentors could be interesting, and different than the more expected fare of Storm, Xavier, etc.
There's a lot of stuff I don't really want to see, most of which showed up later, like Gossamyr & Spyder or Karma's bionic leg or Sam being an External (until he wasn't) or Bobby as Reignfire (until he wasn't...) or anything-ever-by-Liefield. For all the team's shining moments, there was a fair amount of weird stuff in there as well.
There's also a lot of characters to choose from!
The original five; Sam/Cannonball, Dani Moonstar, Rahne/Wolfesbane, Berto/Sunspot and Xian/Karma.
Later additions; Amara/Magma, Doug/Cypher, Ilyanna/Magik, Warlock, Warpath, Boom-Boom, Siryn, Rictor, Shatterstar, Feral...
Random teens that *could* have been New Mutants; Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, Madrox, Rachel Summers
Teen foes; Jetstream, Roulette, Tarot, Catseye!, uh, other Hellions... Or even more recent 'Emma's New Mutants' like Hellion, Mercury, Rockslide, Surge, Dust, etc.
One thing I liked about the New Mutants, and definitely fresh for it's time, was that we had a 'five-man team' that had three girls and two boys, which was pretty radical in a time period when every other team seemed to be 'four dudes and a chick,' or, as one Image comic cheekily said, 'the standard new-team formula, some established loner, a couple of dudes from another team, and two bimbos nobody has ever heard of before.' Indeed, Karma, introduced previously as a Spider-Man side-character, was the only pre-existing character, and Bobby and Sam ended up being two of the 'bimbos nobody has ever heard of before!'
(That said, of the original five, Karma's probably my least favorite, and got sidelined pretty fast, in favor of shinier new characters like Magma, Magik and Warlock. I'd love for her to have come back from working for Uncle Nguyen as a badass martial artist/criminal enforcer/psychic, but then Psylocke might have had to stay British to avoid stepping on Xian's Asian ninja psychic schtick!)
Don't forget Cable...I think he first made his appearance in New Mutants..
I believe that would fall under liefeld silliness.
I like gossamyr, but I understand how others wouldn't.
The comic was very very strange when it wasn't awesome. Lots of power level issues and overall inconsistencies, usually to make sure everything was working fine with the x men comic, but also to assuage the bloodlust of many readers(I remember the "please kill x or y" letters, which made me worry about the people reading this comic).
If this movie doesn't start with an orphaned Dani Moonstar considering killing herself and end with her triumphantly pulling an arrow from the corpse of a slain demon bear, I'm gonna rant all way home from the theatre. Considering how the Iron man trilogy, like, completely glossed over Tony Stark's alcoholism, my hopes aren't very high.
I'm fine if she loses the rawhide wrapped injun braids, though; I'd prefer it, actually.
From time to time, the X-men themselves lampshade all their INSANELY STRANGE AND BIZARRELY CONVOLUTED backgrounds. X-man/Cable sort of takes the cake, but Nightcrawler is certainly no slouch. :-)
By what stretch of the imagination would you do a Deadpool + Cable movie seriously?!?
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Cable + Deadpool used to be a thing, along with a teleporting fortress and a randomly time jumping element.
I think the comic was even called Cable and Deadpool...or was it Deadpool and Cable (Deadpool would certainly advocate the latter).