Looks like we’re finally getting some news on the next big Marvel film out from Fox Studios. We’ve all known that director Josh Boone was working on a film that would feature the New Mutants for a little over a year now. Now, it seems, we are at the threshold of its actual creation. Omega Underground is reporting that the actual name of the project is “X-Men: The New Mutants.”
This is by no means official, but the title makes sense. Fox, rightly so, wants the general audience to know that this is an X-Men film. While all us nerds recognize the “New Mutants” title as being related to the X-Men, most people would not. As such, its smart to keep the X-Men name attached to the property.
Presumably, this also links the film to the X-Men we met in X-Men: Apocalypse. Whether we see them in the film is a bit of a mystery still, but it would not be surprising if Fox found a way to incorporate a couple of those X-Men into the film. The problem there is that Apocalypse took place in the 80’s, whereas the New Mutants, by all accounts, takes place in present day.
Comicbookmovie.com, where we first saw this story, also quotes a second source, Creative Screenwriting, which could confirm the presence of Demon Bear in the film. We first heard about the possible presence of Demon Bear when an animatic leaked with people linking it to Boone as part of a pitch he used to sell Fox on his ideas.
Now, from the man himself, we hear that he did indeed pitch Demon Bear to the studio.
“We had loved Bill Sienkiewicz’s run with Chris Claremont that had Demon Bear. It was really dark, interesting, and different from the typical X-Men stories that we had read. After I made The Fault in Our Stars, we made Fox a comic book. It walked them through a trilogy of New Mutant films that would build on each other. We used this program called Comic Life, and took all the images we had loved from the series and strung them together to show them the movie we wanted to do. We brought it to Simon and he really liked it.
We’ve been going for the past year and a half to get it ready, and I’m about to go location scout and we have a release date now.”
However, pitching to the studio does not mean the studio said yes to it, so this is still not confirmation we’ll see Demon Bear or that entire storyline in the upcoming film, which starts filming in May of this coming year.
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