Fans of the New Mutants team, a junior varsity X-Men spinoff, have been waiting an eternity to see them realized on the big screen. Fox has been producing mutant movies since 2000, but New Mutants characters like Cannonball, Sunspot, Wolfsbane and Magik were perpetually sidelined so Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) could get multiple movies, the Dark Phoenix saga could be told (twice), and Deadpool could branch out into his own sarcastic corner of a now-defunct Marvel world.
