Stranger Things star
Charlie Heaton is in negotiations to board the X-Men extended family.
Heaton, who plays gloomy
Jonathan Bryers on the Netflix hit drama-fantasy series, is in talks to join the
cast of Fox's upcoming X-Men spinoff movie New Mutants, where he will play Sam
Guthrie, a.k.a. Cannonball, a teenager who is able to propel himself through the
air like a human rocket, and is invulnerable while doing so.
The movie will focus on a group of mutant teens that include Magik,
Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Danielle Moonstar, and Cannonball. Joining them will be an
alien named Warlock.
Should he sign on to the
project, the actor will join already cast Anya
Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, and Rosario Dawson.
Williams will play Wolfsbane, a Scottish teen struggling to reconcile her
religious beliefs with her ability to turn into a wolf.
Taylor-Joy will play Magik, a Russian girl who has learned how to use
sorcery and uses teleportation disks in order to travel. She is the younger
sister of the Colossus, an X-Man that has appeared in both the X-Men film
franchise and in Deadpool.
Dawson will play Dr. Cecilia Reyes, a doctor and former X-Men who has the
ability to generate a force field that is tied to her life force. The character
assumes a mentor role for the group of teen heroes.
Created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, the New Mutants comic series was
launched in the early 1980s by Marvel.
Scheduled for a July start of production, and April 13, 2018 theater
release, New Mutants will be directed by Josh Boone ("The Fault in Our
Stars"), who wrote the script with his writing partner Knate Lee.
Simon Kinberg and Karen Rosenfelt are producing New Mutants.
Source - THR
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