New Mutants Was Pitched As Trilogy

The X-Men films are set to continue branching out in the upcoming years. Between Deadpool, Gambit, and the confirmed New Mutants film, we’re set to see a more diverse look at the X-Men Universe. The New Mutants film was actually as something other than a one-off film, it was pitched as a trilogy.

This was revealed by Josh Boone to Creative Screenwriting, who was the one who brought the idea of New Mutants to Fox in the first place. He and his team did a unique approach to the pitch itself, they basically made a comic book of how the three films would work within the larger narrative. Boone cited that his inspiration for the pitch came from the classic New Mutants story, “The Demon Bear Saga”

“After I made ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ we made Fox a comic book,” he continued. “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 [Kinberg, X-Men franchise producer] 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.”

There’s still no word on who will fill the New Mutants team, though many classic mutants have been rumored.