‘New Mutants’ Director Wants Sequels
By George Robbins
For those who think that ‘New Mutants‘ sounds familiar but maybe don’t know much about it, it is a film that has had a wild development ever since its first teaser trailer dropped. It has been a few years since the first teaser for the movie has dropped for the public and the film still has yet to be released. The film originally had a release date for the beginning of April, but with theaters shut down due to the pandemic the date had to be pushed back to August. This new release date may be the most recent, but until there is actually a release for the movie, there is no telling if it will release when they say it will. This is just one of the issues to befall this movie since its announcement, but that won’t stop the movie’s director.
‘New Mutants’ has had a considerable number of delays since its initial conception with one of the biggest being the acquisition of 20th Century Fox by Disney. This issue finally being settled put the film’s release back on track until the coronavirus pandemic yet again put it on hold. This makes it difficult for fans of the X-Men and other mutant characters to maintain excitement and some have even forgotten it entirely. The movie focuses on a group of young adult mutants who are trying to understand their own powers while getting out of a horrifying situation. This is a story that a lot of people have been wanting to see and is still sure to draw people in.
This movie still holds a lot of interest for people because it tells a new story with new characters that have yet to be realized outside of their comic book medium. That has managed to keep a lot of X-Men fans at least somewhat interested so that there will be a crowd for when the film finally releases. Director Josh Boone has said that this film that he has put all of his time into has turned out to be what he has wanted to be and is excited that it will finally be able to hit the big screen. He is so excited by the release of the film, in fact, that he announced that he already wants to start work on sequels, but there is no telling if this will end up happening yet or not. Ultimately, this be decided after the film releases and Disney can see if it does well at the box office, but due to the way theaters will be, it doesn’t seem good.
It has already been a topic of discussion that ever since Disney acquired Fox, there will eventually be some rebooted form of the X-Men that we could see in the MCU. If ‘New Mutants’ does well, we could even see this being the entry point into the MCU that fans may be looking for, but if it doesn’t do well, then it could just be labeled a one-off. Information around this movie is complicated, but that still doesn’t change the fact that the director is trying to assure people it will be worth it and that it deserves sequels. If all does actually go well with its release, then Boone wants to make two more movies to go along with it in order to make a trilogy that he has envisioned for the story. At this point all we can do is wait and see how the film turns out.