Progress continues in ensuring that the casting is appropriate for Fox’s upcoming New Mutants film got the official green light with a planned April 13th, 2018 release date. The latest addition to the cast is that of Henry Zaga, who was recently seen in Thirteen Reasons Why and had a bit of a run on the Teen Wolf TV series. The actor, who is Brazillian, will be playing the mutant Sunspot, aka Roberto da Costa, a Brazillian mutant that can manipulate solar energy.
Director Josh Boone recently revealed that he is looking to work this film more along the lines of the horror genre with a loose adaptation of the Demon Bear storyline from the 80’s comics. “There are no costumes,” he told EW. “There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different.”
Originally we learned that director Josh Boone was co-writing with Kante Gwaltnet while Simon Kinberg and Lauren Shuler Donner will produce. The later drafts brought into play new writers as Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber =boarded the project. Both of them worked with Boone on bringing The Fault in Our Stars script to life, so it’s not terribly surprising.
The cast includes Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane, Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik, Charlie Heaton as Cannonball, Henry Zaga as Sunspot and Rosario Dawson as Dr. Cecilia Reyes.
Original concept: Cannonball. Sunspot. Moonstar. Karma. Rahne. Teenagers, thrown together by the one thing they had in common — the X-Factor in their genes that made them different, made them mutants. Relive the adventures of the team that will come to be known as X-Force… if they survive.
