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25 Nov

New Mutants: How Magik and Lockheed Fit Into the X-Men Franchise’s Evolution

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This article contains New Mutants spoilers. The New Mutants, now available to watch on streaming, is the final outing in Fox’s eclectic X-Men film franchise. While Marvel Studios’ finally confirmed Deadpool 3 is a wild card in how it connects to anything, that’s in Disney’s hands now. Otherwise, we have 13 movies in 20 years celebrating superpowers as a metaphor for real-life prejudice. But only in the end, did the X-Men franchise really start to open up to a universe where mutants aren’t the explanation to everything outlandish. One of the reasons the Avengers movies worked out so well was…
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22 Nov

New Mutants References One of the Biggest Marvel X-Men Events

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This article contains New Mutants spoilers. Ah, the sorry tale of the New Mutants movie. Completed just as Disney absorbed 20th Century Fox, Josh Boone’s horror-tinged YA X-Men flick never got its promised reshoots, was shelved, had its release date kicked around the calendar – first by an indifferent studio and then by the pandemic – before finally arriving with a whimper in limited theatrical release earlier this fall and (finally) on streaming last week. Like its troubled young characters, New Mutants bears the scars of its difficult past, and then gets saddled with the added burden of being neither…
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18 Nov

The New Mutants and Its Nightmare on Elm Street Influences

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This article contains mild The New Mutants spoilers. The New Mutants is an odd duck. The writing was on the wall back in 2017 when 20th Century Fox first pushed the film off its original 2018 release window. Apparently the delay was the result of the studio wanting to make it more of a horror movie via  reshoots… reshoots that then never happened. Even so, those horror elements are still on bonkers display in Josh Boone’s final cut of the film, now available on  Blu-ray and VOD. Even without knowing Boone was vocal that the  Nightmare on Elm Street movies…
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07 Oct

The New Mutants DVD/Blu-ray Release Date and Special Features

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The New Mutants will soon stream and spin at homes in the very-near future. While many speculated that this news would precede the recent move by studios Fox and Disney to release the film at theaters, it does signal the end of an era—especially for those of us who have spent the past 3+ years covering it—since the film will likely go down in history as having faced one of the hardest roads to a release, perhaps ever. 20th Century Fox will, at long last, release The New Mutants on Digital HD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, November 17. The Marvel…
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04 Sep

Is New Mutants an Ending for the Fox X-Men Universe?

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Ever since the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I’ve been absolutely fascinated by any and all attempts for studios to create and navigate an expanded universe. Whether it’s based on superheroes or the supernatural, we’ve seen more Goofuses than Galants. Whatever your opinion of the Marvel movies, you have to at least admit that it worked out fantastically for Disney. They figured out a formula and it was a success. Meanwhile, Amazing Spider-Man 2 got rewritten into oblivion, failed, and Sony buried their expansion plans until Venom became a surprise hit. Warner Bros. and DC rushed into their own…
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30 Aug

New Mutants: Sacha Baron Cohen Almost Played Warlock

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The New Mutants stars Anya Taylor-Joy (Magik), Maisie Williams (Wolfsbane), Charlie Heaton (Cannonball), Blu Hunt (Mirage) and Henry Zaga (Sunspot) in the X-Men spinoff about five young mutants who must face their pasts, harness their powers, and band together to escape from the sinister government facility in which they have been secretly stashed. The movie, which was made by 20th Century Fox as part of its X-Men universe before the company was absorbed by Disney, was shot three years ago by director and co-writer Josh Boone. Along with his friend and writing partner Knate Lee, Boone was a massive fan…
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29 Aug

How New Mutants Fits Into Marvel Movie Timeline

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When The New Mutants went into production in early 2017, it was still part of what was once known unofficially as the Fox Marvel Universe: a collection of films based around the Marvel characters that 20th Century Fox owned the screen rights to and had no intention of giving up to Marvel Studios parent company Disney. As director Josh Boone — a big fan of the comics — has explained, The New Mutants was meant as a different kind of superhero thriller, with the aesthetic and tone of a horror movie. In fact, it was meant to be the first…
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28 Aug

The New Mutants

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In an isolated hospital, young mutants are being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive. Rated: PG-13Release Date: Aug 28, 2020
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28 Aug

New Mutants: A Horror Version of The Breakfast Club

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In The New Mutants, five teenagers are being held in an asylum that is actually a front for a secret government facility. The five don’t know each other and aren’t sure how they got there or who brought them, but one thing is clear: each of them is a mutant, a human being enhanced or endowed with extraordinary powers, representing the next stage of evolution for humankind. The New Mutants is a spin-off of Fox’s long-running X-Men series of films and based on the classic Marvel comic book created in 1982 by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod to…
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03 Aug

X-Men Movie Writer Says He’d Gladly Help Bring Mutants Into The MCU

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Den of Geek recently had the opportunity to speak with David Hayter, the writer, producer and actor whose first big break in the film industry came when he had the opportunity to work on the screenplay for X–Men. The 2000 Bryan Singer-directed superhero film celebrates its 20th anniversary this summer and arguably opened the doors for the era of superhero movies we’ve enjoyed since. X-Men was made at a time before Marvel Studios existed as its own entity (later bought by Disney) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe was still eight years away from its blockbuster launch with Iron Man. During…
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28 Jul

The New Mutants Director Josh Boone on a Possible Streaming Release

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Marvel movie The New Mutants has become one of the most intriguing COVID-era film industry stories. After all, when has the industry dealt with a spinoff from a concluded franchise that, upon completion, spent over two years battered by delays, only to see its hard-won final release date land in the middle of a freaking pandemic? Thus, there’s a vocal contingent of moviegoers calling for the film to nix its theatrical aspirations and go straight to streaming or VOD; a notion to which the film’s director, Josh Boone, seems amenable. In an interview with ComicBook.com from the rounds of the…
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24 Jul

New Mutants: Plans for Potential Trilogy Revealed

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Despite being named after one X-Men spinoff team, the New Mutants movie is more like an x-factor. We don’t know how it’s going to be (despite the insistence that it’s coming at the end of August). We don’t know when it’s actually going to get released. We don’t know what Marvel superhero reality it’s going to take place in. We aren’t 100% sure if it’s going to be in theaters at all or just get thrown onto Disney+ or Hulu. We don’t even know if its potential success will even matter due to the bizarre nature of its existence. On…
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23 Jul

The New Mutants Opening Scene Released Alongside New Trailer

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We’ve waited a long time for The New Mutants. You know it, we know it, and you can be sure the filmmakers know it too. And yet, the funny thing about The New Mutants Comic-Con@Home panel is that the thwarted anticipation everyone feels is being turned into an asset. “People talk about this being a cursed film because it’s taking forever,” said Bill Sienkiewicz, the New Mutants comic book artist whose work greatly inspired the film, and who was present for part of the panel. “But in some respects, I think the lockdown has just amped up the level of…
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23 Jul

The New Mutants: Maisie Williams Talks Same Sex Love Story and Kiss

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Superhero movies have a notoriously poor track record on sincerely depicting disenfranchised or marginalized groups on the screen, LGBTQ+ or otherwise. Often every time a Hollywood studio brags about including a gay character in a major blockbuster, it turns out to be a character without a name, or a background player whose public display of affection can be easily trimmed out of international cuts of the film. That doesn’t appear to be the case with The New Mutants. While we still have not actually seen the long-forthcoming superhero-horror movie hybrid, much to the chagrin of the movie’s makers, the picture…
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16 Jul

The New Mutants Releases New Trailer, Sets Comic-Con@Home Panel

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“Nothing will stop The New Mutants,” reads the tag line in the new trailer for the delays-dealt Marvel movie. It’s a defiant statement that seems to address the absurd awkwardness endured by the 2017-shot film in its seemingly interminable quest to reach a release. Yet, the trailer in question also signals a crucial promotional stop: a virtual panel set for the COVID-quarantined Comic-Con@Home festivities, which are to be held in place of Comic-Con 2020. 20th Century Fox Studios, which originally produced the film that now resides under the Disney corporate umbrella, has announced that The New Mutants will hold its…
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13 May

The New Mutants Sets August 2020 Release Date

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The New Mutants has managed yet again to find a new lease on life for a theatrical release after its most recent setback, which saw the X-Men spinoff movie pulled from its previous April 2020 release (alongside other Disney tentpole offerings,) due to coronavirus concerns. Disney, the inheritor studio of the 20th Century Fox-produced movie, has announced that The New Mutants is now scheduled to hit theaters on August 28, 2020. The new date might make for a bit of déjà vu, seeing as the 2017-shot film was, at one point, scheduled to hit theaters on August 2, 2019, a…
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03 Apr

Will The New Mutants End Up on Streaming or Disney Plus?

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Poor The New Mutants. Initially one of the bolder and more interesting X-Men projects to originate out of 20th Century Fox, the superhero spinoff has turned into a corporate football delayed by studio mandates, merger politics, and now the coronavirus crisis. When The Walt Disney Company announced The New Mutants would be delayed alongside Mulan and Antlers last month due to the pandemic, it amounted to the fourth time New Mutants’ release date has been pushed back or postponed. In the more bizarre corners of fandom, this has resulted in whispers of “curses,” and in the less crazy parts, it’s…
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13 Mar

Coronavirus Scare Delays Mulan, New Mutants, and Antlers

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Poor, poor The New Mutants. The last 20th Century Fox-produced superhero movie was scheduled to finally have its release date and day in the sun on April 3. After the movie became a production football trapped in limbo during Disney’s acquisition of Fox—there are going to be reshoots, actually there won’t be reshoots, maybe it never needed reshoots?—it was a curious sign of confidence when Disney elected to give it an April 2020 release date. That’s over now, as are the nearby release dates for the Mulan remake and Antlers. The delays were first broken by Deadline Thursday night and…
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10 Mar

New Mutants Director Josh Boone Debunks Reshoot Rumors

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The New Mutants is, at long last, set to make its debut in April – two whole years after its intended release. Indeed, the film was designed as a tonally off-beat expansion of Fox’s long-held X-Men movie rights, but Disney’s 2019 acquisition of the studio temporarily rendered it an abandoned oddity. However, director Josh Boone thinks the film still has something to offer, and, in a new interview with EW, dispels the long-held notion that it was subject to extensive reshoots. Boone, also known as the director of 2014’s The Fault in Our Stars, finally dished about the delays that…
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