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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.
Two-time BAFTA winning filmmaker Joe Wright (Hanna, “Black Mirror“) is set to direct the feature adaptation of post-apocalyptic thriller novel, Juice, Deadline reports today.
Emmy winner Abi Morgan (Shame, “Eric”) will adapt Tim Winton‘s novel for Working Title Films.
In Juice, “A young husband and father is recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, to join the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.”
It’s set in a world ravaged by climate-change disaster.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that Tim Winton has entrusted us with his extraordinary epic,” Wright told Deadline. “The story is both a thrilling modern family saga and an urgent call to action. I cannot wait for audiences to experience it on the big screen.”
Winton added, “I’m pleased to know a filmmaker of Joe Wright’s calibre has chosen to adapt Juice for the screen. His capacity to portray the turmoil and the turning points of nations and peoples as well as private individuals distinguishes his work as a director and I’m confident that Juice is in good hands.”
Juice was initially published in October 2024 and longlisted for The Climate Fiction Prize 2026.
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