New Mutants Gets A New August 2020 Release Date
By George Robbins
The coronavirus pandemic has wrecked absolute havok on everybody’s year thus far. Whether it is an everyday person or a business, everyone has been affected by the virus in some way. For the entertainment industry, it has been especially painful because so much of what they do is based on schedules. Whether it be things like filming dates or release dates for content, companies have had no choice but to delay nearly everything. Now that there are less cases of the virus being reported, lockdowns are being loosened up for everybody.
Lockdowns being loosened up doesn’t mean all that much though because the idea of it all was to prevent new infection cases. So while they are loosened, there are still plenty of restrictions that must be adhered to by businesses and the public. There is no possible way to rush through a pandemic because there is no guaranteed way to protect against the virus other than preventing infection. With this in mind, the restrictions don’t seem all that terrible if we want to go back to enjoying our livelihoods.
Movie and television productions will have some of the worst restrictions due to how that job works, but films that are already finished are a bit luckier. Production companies with movies under their belts have had to made tough decisions regarding release dates for their films. Many movies which were supposed to release, even through the summer, have had to be pushed back. So now that most theater chains plan on reopening in the summer, companies are trying to get their release dates lined up around those re-openings.
One such company would just so happen to be Disney, and the movie they plan on releasing around that time is ‘The New Mutants.’ This movie has been in a sort of development limbo for a long time now, and just when it was getting ready to drop, the pandemic began. Disney then pulled it from the release roster and it was completely unknown just when they would decide to release the film to theaters or if they had other plans for it. Information has finally been released regarding ‘The New Mutants,’ and it appears that Disney has given the movie an August release date. As of now the film has been set for an August 28th release, and we can only hope that it stays this way moving forward from here.