Director Josh Boone explained how The New Mutants was effected by the failure of X-Men: Apocalypse.
After the poorly received X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the film franchise was revitalized with the release of X-Men: First Class, which transported fans to the 1960s during the younger days Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. While the first sequel to the prequel, Days of Future Past, was generally well-received, the franchise took another turn with the widely-lambasted X-Men: Apocalypse.
Now, director Josh Boone has revealed how the failure of X-Men: Apocalypse resulted in Fox making changes to his upcoming film in the franchise, The New Mutants. As Boone explained during an interview with Screen Rant in 2017, The New Mutants was originally going set during the same time period as Apocalypse before the poor performance of the film prompted Fox to decide against setting future X-Men films in the past:
“You know, it was originally set, when we did the first couple drafts with Simon Kinberg, who’s our producer, he’s off now making his own X-Men movie, so like, he’s still the producer, but Karen’s here because Simon’s got to make that movie. But originally were in the 80s universe with Professor X in it, with Storm in it, and with a bunch of other stuff and, like, basically when they got to Apocalypse, they didn’t want anything set in the past anymore, [lowers voice] like that was the reason it was bad… It’s like, the one before that in the 70s was pretty awesome. And the 60s one was pretty great. They just wanted all this stuff moved up to the present day including the X-Men eventually in some way shape or form. I imagine these will all connect, but it didn’t really matter because they’re in such an isolated location without any Wi-Fi or phones or anything that it might as well be the 80s in terms of the setting. It didn’t change our story very much. It limited who we could use character-wise, but in some ways it made it better because it freed us from, uh – it’s really able to be its own thing. Which I appreciate more now than I did when had to make that decision. But yeah, we’re really excited about it.”
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Here is the official synopsis for The New Mutants:
20th Century Fox in association with Marvel Entertainment presents “The New Mutants,” an original horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive.
Directed by Josh Boone from a script he co-wrote with Knate Lee, The New Mutants stars Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, and Henry Zaga.
The New Mutants will be released in theaters on April 3, 2020.
Source: Screen Rant
