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‘New Mutants’ Reshoots to Insert Additional Character Into Film?!
Josh Boone‘s New Mutants comic book adaptation is currently in post-production. Part of the process is a series of test-screenings, which allegedly didn’t go so well. Insiders tell us there were a plethora of issues, which has Fox sending Boone back for a series of reshoots. Additional photography is not uncommon, however, we’re told this is more than a band-aid.
There’s a bit of confirmation to our Intel hiding within an article over at THR, which discusses internal fears at Fox over Disney’s looming acquisition of the company. While the execs within the studio “are going 100 miles per hour,” says one involved, they have no idea what the Mouse will do once the deal is approved and executed.
For now, they’re working on several secret projects and spinoffs, all while trying to get their Gambit solo film off the ground and fix their troubled X-Men spinoff, New Mutants.
The article states that the horror-themed New Mutants will undergo a round of additional photography this summer, while adding this bombshell: it will insert a new character into the thriller that is now dated for Feb. 22, 2019.
Who could the new character be? As it stands, New Mutants features Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) as Wolfsbane with Anya Taylor-Joy (Split) appearing as Magik, Henry Zaga as Sunspot, Charlie Heaton as Cannonball, and Blu Hunt as Mirage. Alice Braga will be co-star as Dr. Cecilia Reyes, a doctor that has mutant abilities.
Boone told IGN back in October that he wanted to see “characters like Karma and Warlock” (yes, please!) in the sequel, which makes this interesting speculation. Also, with Deadpool arriving soon, and Gambit and X-Force on the horizon, would it be that crazy to see Deadpool, Cable or even an X-Men (Professor X?) injected into the film?
Speaking of, Channing Tatum‘s long-in-development Gambit is still looking for a director, added the article on THR. A new draft of the script is expected in March and it is greenlit, meaning that the studio has budgeted it. They truly are moving at 100 miles an hour.
What do you guys think they’ll do with New Mutants?
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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