Movie News/Rumors: NEW MUTANTS

John_Steed

20th Century Fox CEO Tom Rothman Hints at NEW MUTANTS Movie in the Works

The news comes courtesy of Collider, who had the chance to interview Fox CEO Tom Rothman at CinemaCon this week. Although he didn’t come right out and confirm a New Mutants movie, he was certainly not denying any of the possibilities being inferred. Here’s how the conversation went:

Collider: I know you guys have like The New Mutants and a lot of characters in the X-Men universe. Obviously you guys are moving forward on an X-Men sequel, you’re moving forward on Wolverine, do you envision New Mutants or some of these other characters as franchises that the door can be open to? It does seem to me that the superhero genre is bigger than it’s ever been, and you guys have some of the crown jewels.

Rothman: (smiles) Yes.

Collider: When can fans expect an announcement on some of these other properties? Before Comic-Con, after Comic-Con, at Comic-Con?

Rothman: In the summer.

Collider: Are you talking to filmmakers right now?

Rothman: Let me just say this. All I have to say is, I agree with you in your assessment of the potential in a lot of these characters.

The New Mutants are a group of “teenaged mutant superheroes-in-training” that have had a number of different line-ups over the years. Typically they have been very racially diverse, with previous members including Karma, a 19-year-old Vietnamese girl who can possess other people’s bodies, Sunspot, a Brazilian who gained superhuman strength in sunlight, and Surge, a Japanese girl who can absorb and release electricity. There have been three different incarnations of the team since their creation in the 1980s.

What do you think, would you be interested in a New Mutants movie?

BrianBaer

I have a hard time believing they'll make one of these and a First Class sequel...

dubbat138

I would love to see a New Mutants film. I hope one is made and it does well enough to have a sequel based on the Demon Bear arc.

DoctorDoom

I'd watch it, if it happens.

demonbear

Much as I'd love this (and I'm a huge new mutants fan) it's gonna be difficult to pull a movie about xmen students with first class still going on. Maybe after the first class sequel or the next?

KyleMoyer

That was a vague answer, but I'm thinking if anything, we might see the New Mutant characters in the X-Men First Class sequel. Xavier's "second class." Which would make them older than the X-Men, but what are you gonna do?

Miraclemet

I know you guys have like The New Mutants and a lot of characters in the X-Men universe.

This is totally how you should talk to a CEO, or anyone profesionally for that matter

DoctorDoom

I know you guys have like The New Mutants and a lot of characters in the X-Men universe.

This is totally how you should talk to a CEO, or anyone profesionally for that matter

Like, totally, for sure!

Torchsong

The geek in me would like a New Mutants movie. The cynical comic book fan in me doesn't see how they make it work and sell it to a mainstream audience. Maybe if they put "X-Men: New Mutants" as the title or something.

There, too, with First Class taking off, it may be a bit soon to start bringing in this crew.

Now as a TV show...hmm...it *is* primarily about a school, after all...

Hex

Remember that TV version of Generation X?
'nuff said.

Torchsong

I redact my former statement! :)

demonbear

Remember that TV version of Generation X?
'nuff said.

I'd say Marvel has become smarter with their properties, so another go at a TV series might fare better. Bt "X-Men: New Mutants" as the fourth movie would be better. It could work as a soft-reboot or whatever (if they felt like it) or as a solid continuation of the first class series. As a 'reboot' it could have elements of wolvie and the xmen, where the familiar characters are the teachers/older members of the team...

Mihawk

Anya Taylor-Joy, And Maisie Williams have been casted as Magik and Wolfsbane

alienal

Haha! I was reading at this thread and realized most of the messages, except the one above, are from 2012! Wow, that was some long-range planning!