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New Trailer Imprisons ‘The New Mutants’ and Their Dark Powers! [Video]
You’d think the genre output would have flatlined once Disney acquired 20th Century Fox and yet here we are on the cusp of another horror-tinged release.
Last summer saw the Bride winning a game of hide-and-seek in Ready or Not, while this coming weekend dives deep into Underwater. Next up is the surprising theatrical release of The New Mutants, the Josh Boone-directed horror-themed X-Men spinoff based on the popular Marvel comic book series that’s finally making its way to theaters on April 3, 2020.
Making things official, 20th Century Fox has just released a brand new trailer for The New Mutants in which 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.
This trailer, unlike the first, introduces each of the mutants and their special powers giving it that “dark” X-Men feel we’ve been promised for over two years now. However, the biggest surprise is the reveal of the Demon Bear, which draws his power from negative human emotion. The beast is also capable of teleportation and corrupting souls. Boone has teased the bear’s inclusion but nothing was confirmed until this very moment.
Also, for those wondering, this release is said to be Boone’s initial cut before the film was pulled by Fox for a series of reshoots (which allegedly never occurred).
The cast includes Henry Zaga as Roberto da Costa a.k.a Sunspot, a mutant with the ability to absorb and channel solar power; Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar, the Native American telepath also known as “Mirage”; Alice Braga as Dr. Cecilia Reyes, a medical doctor who has the ability to generate a protective bio-field around herself but also has more going on than she lets on; Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana Rasputin, also known as Magik, who uses teleportation; Charlie Heaton as Sam Guthrie, a.k.a. Cannonball; and Maisie Williams as Rahne Sinclair, a.k.a. Wolfsbane, who can turn into a wolf.
Here’s a fresh look at the cast:
Maisie Williams, Henry Zaga, Blu Hunt, Charlie Heaton and Anya Taylor-Joy in The New Mutants.
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Todd McFarlane Reveals He’s Sitting on Unreleased Animated ‘Spawn’ Movie Starring Keith David
While updates on the Spawn movie from Blumhouse have stalled, Todd McFarlane surprised at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend with the reveal that he’s been sitting on an animated film.
Moreover, the comic creator revealed to Comic Book that his unreleased animated Spawn film is mostly completed, and stars Keith David and Mark Hamill.
McFarlane explained to the outlet that he’s uninterested in expanding upon the 1997 live-action film in series form. That’s when he revealed his animated feature: “I don’t know if I’ve ever said, we developed, we were in the process of developing the return of this Spawn animation a while back. And then we, I got in a fight at the very end with the production and the lawyer, so I just bought it all back.”
The film is mostly ready to go, too.
“So I actually have a 90-minute animated show that’s all been drawn, minus the cells. All the voices have been done. Everything, like, we’re ready. All we need is a little bit of Foley, which is sound effects and stuff, and then hand it to a studio to actually draw, right? We’re like, it’s just been sitting in a box waiting to go. I have just been sitting on that going, no, I think I need to get like the movie out, and then boom, once the movie comes out, if there’s any success, then come out with that, but it’s sitting there. So anybody that wants to do animation, the first thing I’m going to do is say, hey, I’ve got this ready to tee up,” McFarlane said.
McFarlane also confirms that Keith David voices Spawn, while Hamill takes on a detective named Twitch.
It’s been a long, hard road out of development hell with his brand new Spawn feature, which Todd McFarlane had originally planned to direct. Jamie Foxx had been attached to play the title character at one point, but we have no idea if that’s still the plan as it’s been a couple of years since the last update.
Perhaps this mostly completed animated Spawn feature will see release first?
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