A year ago Fox announced that Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) will direct a spin-off movie set in the Mutant Shared Universe - New Mutants. Until now, we knew literally nothing about this planned spin-off, not even a release date for the movie (this last detail hasn't changed, though).
However, Hitfix came up with a scoop concerning the first 3 cast members of New Mutants.
According to the website, Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) will appear as Rahne Sinclair, aka Wolfsbane. In the comics, this mutant can transform into a wolf at will, possessing all the abilities of the said beast - although enhanced. While this is in the comics known as lycanthropy, this ability manifests itself due to Rahne's X-gene.
Maisie Williams (Wikipedia)
The second cast member is Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch), who will portray Illya Rasputin, the sister of Colossus. She is best known for her alias Magik and she possesses, obviously, mystical powers. Besides being a powerful sorceress, she can also teleport herself and others through time and space.
Anya Taylor-Joy (Tumblr)
Lastly, according to Hitfix, the last cast member of New Mutants is Alexandra Shipp's Storm. We can assume at this point that Storm will switch sides during X-Men: Apocalypse and ally herself with the X-Men. But we already knew that, since one of the latest promo pics released by Fox for this movie saw her at the side of all the other X-Men.
Alexandra Shipp as Storm (20th Century Fox)
Seeing that the spin-off will take place in the modern world, we can assume that there are little to no chances for the older cast of the X-Men franchise to appear in New Mutants. There is, however, one possibility - Jennifer Lawrence, since her character can shapeshift and doesn't age as fast as all the others.
For the moment, these are just rumors, so take them with a pinch of salt.
What other characters do you expect to see in New Mutants?
New Mutants (Comic Vine and Comic Vine)
