Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams and Anya
Taylor-Joy ("Split") are set to star in Josh Boone's ("The Fault
in Our Stars") upcoming X-Men spinoff film New Mutants for 20th Century
Fox.
Written by Boone and his writing partner Knate
Gwaltney, the project is expected to go into production this July.
Simon Kinberg and Karen Rosenfelt are producing.
Created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, the New Mutants
comic series was launched in the early 1980s by Marvel.
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.
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.
Fox is keen to locate the right actors for the
remaining lead roles, as such they have cast a wide net to find a Brazilian
actor to play Sunspot, a Native American to play Moonstar, and a Southeastern
girl to play Kentucky-born Cannonball.
New Mutants opens in theaters on April 13, 2018.
Source - THR
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