Writer and director Josh Boone recently finished filming the new X-Men: New Mutants movie, which has previously been described as a horror movie.
Now while offering an update on the X-Men franchise, the head of FOX Studios, Stacey Snider goes one step further and says it’s like a haunted house film as well and even says it’s less a superhero movie where they are saving the world and more of a film similar to The Shining.
If we’re going to make a superhero movie, we have to ask ourselves: “What’s our version? What’s a Fox Marvel film? When you look at films like “Deadpool” or “Logan” or the upcoming “New Mutants,” you’ll see they have their own personality. Great effort has been put into making sure they’re differentiated. “New Mutants” is about these teenagers who are just coming into their powers. It’s like watching mutants go through adolescence and they have no impulse control, so they’re dangerous. The only solution is to put them in a “Breakfast Club” detention/“Cuckoo’s Nest” institutional setting. It protects the people on the outside, but it’s strange and combustible inside. The genre is like a haunted-house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers. We haven’t seen it as a superhero movie whose genre is more like “The Shining” than “we’re teenagers let’s save the world.”
Fox appears to be going in lots of different directions with their X-Men movies, which is rather exciting. As noted, X-Men: New Mutants is going to be a horror movie, which is different than the R-rated comedic action take of Deadpool and Cable, and even different than the classic X-Men films like Simon Kinberg’s upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
X-Men: New Mutants has an April 13, 2018 release starring Game of Thrones‘ Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane, Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik, Charlie Heaton as Cannonball, Henry Zaga as Sunspot, Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar / Mirage, and Alice Braga as Dr. Cecilia Reyes.
