Maisie Williams and Anya Taylor-Joy have been confirmed for X-Men spin-off movie New Mutants.
The 20-year-old actress has been hand-picked by Fox to be one of the franchise’s fresh batch of superheroes and while it was only rumoured before, the film has now been given the go ahead with a release date edging towards April 2018.
Maisie – most famous for her role as Arya Stark in Game of Thrones– is to portray Wolfsbane, also known as Rahne Sinclair who has the ability to transform into a wolf.
Anya Taylor-Joy and Alexandra Shipp are also set to star in the project as Illya Rasputin, aka Magik and a mystery mutant respectively.
James McAvoy will reprise his role as Professor X and will have a significant part to play in the plot.
The director is The Fault In Our Stars filmmaker Josh Boone.
Simon Kinberg, who plays a key role as a producer on the X-Men films, said the release will have its own “original voice” and a young vibe.
He previously said: “Josh Boone and his writing partner are working on the script. They’re doing a really nice job of it, and it’s a really cool one, because in many ways, like Deadpool was so different from the mainline X-Men movies, New Mutants… It’s maybe not as different as Deadpool, but it has its own unique, original voice to it,
“That’s the fun for me, working in the X-Men universe, creating these sort of standalone movies that have a different vibe to them. And New Mutants has more of a YA (Young Adult) vibe to it.”
The film is expected to begin shooting in in July.
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