'Stranger Things' star Charlie Heaton to join 'X-Men' spinoff

Actor Charlie Heaton, who plays brooding outsider

Jonathan Bryers

on hit 'Stranger Things', is in talks to join the cast of '

X-Men

' spinoff 'New Mutants'.

If the deal gets finalised, Heaton will play Sam Guthrie, also known as Cannonball, a teen who propels himself into the air and is invulnerable while doing .




Anya Taylor-Joy and Maisie Williams have already signed up for the ensemble young adult superhero movie being directed by Josh Boone.

Taylor-Joy will play Illyana Rasputin, code-named Magik, a girl who has learned sorcery and uses teleportation discs to travel, while Williams will portray Rahne Sinclair, aka Wolfsbane, a girl struggling to reconcile her religious beliefs with her power to turn into a wolf.

'New Mutants' will arrive in the US theatres on April 13, 2018.