With the release of the first New Mutants trailer, now comes word it will be the start of a new X-Men horror trilogy.
The New Mutants movie has already been described as more of a horror movie and different from the previous X-Men films, and now director Josh Boone offers details on the next two New Mutants films while talking with IGN.
We brought it to FOX as a trilogy of films, really all based on that long run by Sienkiewicz, and kind of incorporates some stuff from later issues in the ’80s.
These are all going to be horror movies, and they’re all be their own distinct kind of horror movies. This is certainly the ‘rubber-reality’ supernatural horror movie. The next one will be a completely different kind of horror movie.
Our take was just go examine the horror genre through comic book movies and make each one its own distinct sort of horror film. Drawing from the big events that we love in the comics.
I’ve seen mention online that the New Mutants trailer isn’t reminiscent of the comic books, however as Josh Boone noted above, they are adapting the Bill Sienkiewicz run with Chris Claremont, and Boone says he is doing the movie because he read them as a kid and is a big fan.
Our whole pitch for this series was based on Bill Sienkiewicz run with Chris Claremont [The New Mutants vol. 1 #18–31, 35–38], so it’s very much when New Mutants became dark and surreal and more horror driven.
We were incredibly inspired by the Demon Bear story which is probably the best, well-known New Mutants story. We also drew on movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Stephen King stuff, and even Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
Darabont wrote that back in the day and that was very inspiring to us. If we’d had just done New Mutants the comic, it would’ve been very much set-up like an X-Men movie in the mansion with Professor X and all that. So we really wanted to do something different. So kind of what we brought to Sienkiewicz and Claremont’s take on New Mutants was this idea they’re all in a psych-hole for mutants.
Josh Boone revealed further details including that the Demon Bear isn’t exactly the villain of the movie, that New Mutants is set in the present day, and he didn’t want to give too many details away including what X-Men are featured in the film (or not).
Watch the New Mutants trailer below!
Directed by Josh Boone, New Mutants has an April 13, 2018 release starring Maisie Williams as Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane, Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana Rasputin / Magik, Charlie Heaton as Sam Guthrie / Cannonball, Henry Zaga as Sunspot / Roberto da Costa, Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar / Mirage, and Alice Braga as Dr. Cecilia Reyes.
Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.
