‘New Mutants’ Casts ‘Game Of Thrones’ And ‘Split’ Stars As Wolfsbane And Magik
By Jacob Hall/May 11, 2017 3:00 pm EST
It certainly helps that two very talented young women have officially joined the cast: Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams and Split’s Anya Taylor-Joy have signed up for Josh Boone’s movie, which is due out next year.
Williams is the more familiar of the two actresses, having played Arya Stark (you know, the best character on the show) in HBO’s Game of Thrones since the first episode. She’s the second Westeros veteran to play a member of the X-Men, following her onscreen sister Sophie Turner, who played Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse. In the comics, Wolfsbane’s ability to transform into a wolf puts her at odds with her religious upbringing and her abusive father. Her inclusion in this line-up definitely hints at the kind of teenage angst New Mutants will traffic in (and after The Fault in Our Stars, I’m all about more Josh Boone-helmed teen angst).
However, Magik is the more familiar of the two characters. The sister of the X-Men’s own Colossus (last seen playing the straight-man to Wade Wilson in Deadpool), she can teleport and utilize a variety of magical abilities, which are often dangerous and beyond her full control. While Taylor-Joy was most recently in Split, she left quite an impression in 2016’s The Witch, where she tackled the difficult lead role with courage and grit.
New Mutants is due out on April 13, 2018, so we can expect the rest of that cast to come together very soon.
