It feels right that New Mutants, a teenage horror take on superhero movies, effectively died and left fans afraid it would never return. When the film was shot three years ago it was still ostensibly part of Fox’s X-Men universe. But then Disney bought Fox and the studio’s mutants were sacrificed so the Marvel Cinematic Universe may grow ever stronger. This movie is at least finally coming out, though. Watch New Mutants this April and really pour one out for Fox’s Marvel universe.
Over the last couple of years, the X-Men movies have been experimenting with what they can bring to the superhero genre. Since Disney is doing the whole comics-style connected story thing with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Fox is using their X-Men franchise to expand the definition of what a superhero movie can be. First, Deadpool turned it into a raunchy, meta-textual comedy. Logan took it into near-future dystopian sci-fi. Now, New Mutants is making a horror movie out of the genre.
Even knowing ahead of time that they were trying to make this one a horror movie, I’m still surprised by how legitimately scary this looks. If most horror movies can’t manage a scare without somehow taking away everyone’s cell phone, how is one going to manage it when the characters have actual superpowers?
That’s always been the beauty of X-Men, though. Even with their extraordinary abilities, they’re still human. When they’re as young as the characters in this movie, they typically don’t even understand their abilities yet, nor can they control them. If handled right, it could be a great recipe for horror. Not only is something unexplainable after you, but you can’t even trust your own body.
The movie stars Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor Joy, Charlie Heaton, Henry Zaga and Blu Hunt. It will center on a group of young mutants who are being held in a secret government facility. From the looks of the trailer, the government researchers are doing all kinds of messed up things to these kids. The only question is, how much of what we see is the facility’s doing, and how much is being caused by the kids’ own mutant abilities?
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The plot and style of this movie looks like a departure from the comics series it’s based on, which was much more in line with a traditional X-Men comic. The original series launched in the 1980s was a superhero action series starring teenage mutants. At the time, they were filling the space left by the original X-Men who had since aged into adulthood. Being a series about teenagers, inter-personal conflict was as much a part of the story as whatever villain they were fighting. As they aged and were recruited by Cable, that New Mutants series eventually turned into X-Force. Say… There is an X-Force movie in development. Could that be what this is leading up to?
Despite the drastically different plot, the movie will reportedly be faithful to the comics in some way. During an interview with HeyUGuys, star Anya Taylor Joy mentioned that director Josh Boone is a big fan of the original comics.
“He’s just such a fan of the comics, and he really loves them so much that he’s really interested in just making sure that we do the comics justice for the people that love the characters. You know, we all feel so lucky to be such incredibly loved characters.” She said. “So, while it’s definitely a departure from the X-Men movies, the fans won’t be disappointed. We definitely kept all the important bits in there.”
The New Mutants is due out in theaters on April 3, 2020.
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