Fox's The New Mutants was supposed to drastically impact future X-Men movies going forward. 20th Century Fox's run with the X-Men characters may soon be over, but there is still one more film in their series to be released: The New Mutants. Fox's last X-Men outing is a horror-themed spin-off that will focus on a brand new set of characters rather than be another mainline X-Men film. Many superheroes have been apart of the New Mutants team over the years, but Magik, Wolfsbane, Sunspot, Cannonball, Mirage will be the main heroes in the upcoming film.

Fans have been waiting patiently for The New Mutants to release. The film was originally supposed to release in April 2018 but was delayed a number of times for various reasons. One of the reasons Fox claimed The New Mutants was being delayed was because of reshoots, but that got even more complicated once Disney bought Fox. The reshoots for The New Mutants never actually happened, which means that director Josh Boone's original film will be screened in April. Boone's film would have changed the X-Men franchise going forward, but that won't happen now.

Back in August 2017 when Screen Rant visited the set of The New Mutants, we got a chance to sit down with Boone to ask him about his X-Men movie. Boone revealed that The New Mutants was pitched as a trilogy, with each film fitting into a different branch of the horror genre. Boone also explained that his film would still have an effect on the mainline X-Men films, despite those characters not appearing in The New Mutants. Boone's full quote from our set visit can be read below:

"When we went to go tell Fox we wanted to do this movie we made them a comic book, it was like a PDF that pitched them kind of a trilogy of films, each one's its own unique kind of horror movie, the first one's a supernatural horror movie, I won't say what the other two are, but they're horror movies but different horror movie each time. Oh yes, we're in the same universe, and there will be things that fans will be really excited about that will have repercussions in other movies and other parts of the X-Men world and all that. So it should be really cool! I'm excited!"

New Mutants (2020)
Release Date: Apr 03, 2020