Yahoo News Two X-Men films are coming in 2018
Despite some serious rumours going around, 20th Century Fox has been remarkably quiet with official announcements about the shape of its post-Apocalypse X-Men franchise.
We've finally had word that is about as official as it can get that the studio is hoping to release (at least) two films in 2018: Deadpool 2 and New Mutants.
The confirmation comes from Simon Kinberg, a long-time X-Men writer and producer and rumoured director of the next main film in the series.
"We're gearing up to make both of them this year," he told Collider.
"New Mutants, we're waiting on a new draft of the script, which we're all very excited about. [Director] Josh Boone has been prepping that movie.
"Josh is someone who is a life-long, hardcore fan of New Mutants, and the plan is to make that movie late spring, early summer of this year, and have it come out next year.
"Similarly with Deadpool 2, Ryan [Reynolds] and the guys have been working hard on the script. We have a really good script for that movie, and we're into the casting process right now for some of the new characters.
"There aren't a lot of new characters, but there are some big ones, as I'm sure you can imagine.
"And the plan would be to shoot that movie this year as well and have it come out next year. So potentially next year, you will have a surfeit of X-Men and X-Men-related movies in theatres."
The next X-Men movie in Fox's main series – apparently being developed under the working title 'X-Men: Supernova' – is also rumoured to be shooting in 2017.
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