The New Mutants
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Short description
The New Mutants follows five young people who discover they have superhuman abilities and are held against their will in a remote medical facility. The oldest of them, Dani Moonstar, wakes there after her father's death and is told by Dr. Reyes that she is the only survivor of an incident on her reservation. She and four other teenagers are meant to be studied and taught to control their powers, but the grounds are sealed off, and disturbing visions begin to pursue them.
The film is the fourth feature directed by Josh Boone, arriving after Stuck in Love and The Fault in Our Stars, and he wrote the screenplay with Knate Gwaltney. It belongs to the X-Men series of films. The cast includes Blu Hunt, Charlie Heaton, Maisie Williams, Henry Zaga, Anya Taylor-Joy and Alice Braga, with Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg and Karen Rosenfelt among the producers.
Released in August 2020, the film runs 94 minutes and blends action, adventure, horror, mystery and science fiction. Its reported budget of 67 million dollars far exceeded its worldwide gross of about 49 million. On IMDb it holds 5.3 out of 10 from roughly 101,000 votes, and on TMDB 6 out of 10 from a much smaller number of votes. A critics' rating of 4.9 out of 10, drawn from 136 reviews, sits below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Josh Boone planned to make this film the first part of a trilogy, the second of which would tell about an alien invasion and an alien mutant nicknamed the Sorcerer, and the third part would be a horror film based on the “Inferno” event from the X-Men comics (demons invade Earth, and Magic plays a key role).
- The Essex Corporation is a reference to Nathaniel Essex, also known as Mr. Sinister, a supervillain from the Marvel Comics universe.
- Josh Boone admitted that filming was not easy for him; he constantly felt as if his hands were tied because he had to soften the overall tone of the movie in every possible way.
- It was initially reported that Fox intended to reshoot numerous scenes to make the film scarier (a decision made based on test screenings). The reshoots were postponed several times until the idea was abandoned entirely in March 2020 after Disney acquired Fox. Reasons for canceling the reshoots vary. Some articles claimed that Disney found the film quite satisfactory, while others stated that director Josh Boone himself opposed the reshoots, arguing that the actors' appearances had changed so noticeably over the past two years that reshooting was out of the question.
- The alien mutant Warlock was planned to appear in the film, and negotiations were underway with Sacha Baron Cohen for the role; however, it was decided that demonstrating the character's abilities would be too expensive, so he was removed from the plot with the intention of placing him in the second film of the trilogy.
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