Watch the opening scene from The New Mutants!
By Dan Selcke
The cast and crew of The New Mutants get together to discuss the long-delayed X-Men spinoff, which has a new release date it probably won’t hit.
The New Mutants is the most beleaguered project in Hollywood. This horror-themed X-Men spinoff was originally supposed to come out in 2018, but kept getting pushed back for one reason or another. It didn’t wanna compete with the new Deadpool movie, suddenly Disney bought Fox and reshuffled the scheduled, and then, when things were looking up, a pandemic broke out around the world and for some reason no one wants to go to the theater anymore.
The cast and crew of The New Mutants — including Game of Thrones veteran Maisie Williams, who plays the mutant Wolfsbane — got together to talk about the film at Comic-Con@Home. There’s a new release date — more on that in a minute — but just in case it doesn’t hold, they also let us all watch the first scene from the movie, which is more of a scene that bleeds into a trailer. Watch the time-stamped goodness below:
It looks like we have Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar, aka Mirage, going through something horrible in the time before she was sent to live at an institution dedicated to keeping other potential problem mutants in check. In addition to Williams’ Scottish werewolf, they include Illyana Rasputin / Magik (Anya Taylor-Joy), Sam Guthrie / Cannonball (Charlie Heaton), and Roberto da Costa / Sunspot (Henry Zaga).
Overall, it looks pretty cool. We’ve had lots of superhero movies, but I can’t recall many that attempted a “horror” angle. I’d watch this…
…if it ever came out. As it says at the top of the panel, there’s a tentative release date of August 28, 2020…but does anyone really expect theaters to be back in business by then? I’d say we’re looking at another delay, or the movie just gets released on Hulu or something.
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