Director Josh Boone has shed more light on his plans for The New Mutants 3, revealing it would've adapted the Inferno storyline from the comics.
If it were to actually happen, The New Mutants 3would've adapted a major X-Men crossover from the comics. Josh Boone's The New MutantsThe New MutantsThe New Mutants
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When we sold it originally, we conceptually sold it as a trilogy, with the second one being an alien invasion movie set in Brazil where Roberto is, where his dad is, who is part of the Hellfire Club. Then, the last one was hopefully going to dovetail with the X-Men movies and we were going to do Inferno, that crossover, which had all these supernatural, satanic horror elements.
The idea was to try to do a different genre, subgenre, of horror movie with each of these movies. That was the idea, but it wasn't something we thought much about because of the merger and everything else.
In the comics, the Inferno storyline featured a huge crossover with several mutant-related titles and saw Illyana Rasputin (Anya Taylor-Joy in The New Mutantswere hyped on it!New MutantsThe New Mutants
Clearly, though, Boone's New MutantsThe New MutantsThe New Mutants 3 which is why it's a shame that it likely won't happen. Still, when it comes to Hollywood, it might be better to never say never.