Josh Boone's THE NEW MUTANTS Will Be A "Superhero Horror

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>THE NEW MUTANTS, the long anticipated X-Men spinoff movie, is going to be a comic book film that goes in an unusual direction. "We are making a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe," director Josh Boone says. "There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different."

>The New Mutants, created by Chris Claremont in the early 80's, are a group of teenage mutants, a kind of superheroes-in-training, who must learn to control their powers. When artist Bill Sienkiewicz — whom Boone calls "one of the most amazing comic book artists ever" — came aboard in 1984, the series took a turn for what Boone describes as, "a darker and more surreal and impressionistic X-Men series than we’d ever seen before. It felt like Stephen King meets John Hughes, and that's what we're going for."

It’s this run of the comic that inspired what we’ll see in THE NEW MUTANTS, which is currently scheduled for a spring 2018 release and shooting for a PG-13 rating. Boone is keeping mum on actual plot details, but a source close to the project explained how mutants are at their most dangerous (both to themselves and others) when their powers are new. (Like, say, their teenage years) Says the source: "Held in a secret facility against their will, five new mutants have to battle the dangers of their powers, as well as the sins of their past. They aren’t out to save the world — they’re just trying to save themselves."

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