
Boone added: “There were a lot of scripts and drafts written over time.
“It started being in the original X-Men timeline, [but] ended up completely its own thing.
“Still with connections to X-Men and all that, and obviously in the same universe, but not tethered to the Dark Phoenix universe.”
What he means by this is that The New Mutants follows the original X-Men trilogy, soon after The Wolverine and presumably around the Deadpool movies.
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