Josh Boone's THE NEW MUTANTS Film Adds a Couple of Writers

As Gambit is seemingly falling apart at 20th Century Fox (that movie just lost yet another director), the studio is moving full speed ahead on another of its X-Men-related properties.

THR reports that Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, the screenwriting team behind films like (500) Days of Summer, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Spectacular Now, has been hired to help director Josh Boone write The New Mutants. (The trio all worked together on The Fault in Our Stars, which was a big hit in 2014.) The lineup of characters is supposedly going to be Mirage, Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot, Magik, and Warlock.

Though there are obviously superhero elements to this movie, the idea of writing a film about a group of teens in a school for gifted youngsters seems right up Neustadter and Weber's alley. I'm sure they'll add a lot to the characterizations of this story, and based on their previous work, it's safe to say the film will be improved because of their presence. Here's hoping this movie is a huge hit, so this creative team can take over making X-Men movies and Bryan Singer's old guard falls away into the background. It's time for some new blood in this franchise, and hopefully this configuration is the winning one.