The New Mutants was finally supposed to see the light of day this April.
So its natural that wed eventually get a version of them on screen.
The only question has become when.
Then in early 2018 it was announced it would be delayed forreshootsthat apparently never happened.
Upon the finalization of that acquisition, Disney has announced they would still theatrically releaseNew Mutants… in 2020.
To date there is no official word about what its next release date will be.
Here was the most recent TV spot before the delay.
And here was a pretty nifty second trailer for that too-good-to-be-true April 2020 release date.
And here is the first trailer from all the way back in 2017.
At time it looked quite intriguing.
Such simpler, more innocent days!
Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) plays Sam Cannonball Guthrie in the film.
Blu Hunt (The Originals) has the key role of Danielle Moonstar, a character with telepathic abilities.
This is a key role in the Demon Bear Saga that the movie is loosely adapting.
Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why) is Sunspot.
Boone then toldEWthat We are making a full-fledged horror movie set within theX-Menuniverse.
There are no costumes.
There are no supervillains.
Were trying to do something very, very different.
New Mutantsis about these teenagers who are just coming into their powers,20th Century Fox CEO Stacy Snider toldVariety.
Its like watching mutants go through adolescence and they have no impulse control, so theyre dangerous.
The only solution is to put them in aBreakfast Clubdetention/Cuckoos Nestinstitutional setting.
It protects the people on the outside, but its strange and combustible inside.
The genre is like a haunted-house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers.
She added that its more likeThe Shiningthan were teenagers lets save the world.'
Further, and once upon a time,Mr.
Boone apparently envisioned this as a trilogy of films.
