According to The Direct, film director Josh Boone, who oversaw the adaptation of New Mutants, is panning his own movie:
The New Mutants is one of the past decade’s most poorly received Marvel movies, but even the writer and director, Josh Boone, had some poor things to say about it. 20th Century Fox (which was poked fun at in Deadpool & Wolverine) tried making a Mutants-themed horror flick with The New Mutants, which featured characters from the comics team of the same name. Unfortunately, the movie only received a 36% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. Fans shared that sentiment, as the film only has a 55% audience score.
The New Mutants writer and director Josh Boone recently slammed his 2020 film, saying it was “unfulfilling.” In a recent interview with The Direct while promoting his upcoming movie, Regretting You, Boone pulled back the curtain on how harrowing production was for The New Mutants.
Specifically, the writer and director admitted that making the movie was “so traumatic.” It was released during the COVID-19 pandemic, which significantly impacted its box office numbers. The film also had to deal with 20th Century Fox being sold to Disney around that same time, which Boone also mentioned was a reason the movie “took so many years” to make and was “so unfulfilling:”
“It’s so hard because it was so traumatic. The studio was sold, and we hit a pandemic… The studio was sold during the shooting, and then the pandemic happened when they decided to release it. And it just was such a — I had a wonderful time. I love the cast so much, but making that… It took so many years, and it was so unfulfilling, ultimately.”
The Direct mentioned to Boone that Marvel Studios will be exploring Mutants more in the near future of the MCU, asking him if he would ever be interested in making a return to the comic book movie world and revisit a potential Mutants project.
Boone admitted that he “didn’t really get to make the movie [he] wanted” with The New Mutants, and, because that film went through so many issues, “[he’d] rather just never do it again:”
“We didn’t really get to make the movie we wanted to make. We made half the movie we wanted to make. And the release was so compromised by the pandemic… I’d rather just never do it again, just to be honest.”
Mutants have already been introduced in the MCU through characters like Deadpool, Wolverine, Charles Xavier, and even Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel). However, following the conclusion of the Multiverse Saga, which will end with the release of Avengers: Secret Wars, Marvel Studios is expected to fully dive into Mutants properly.
Unsurprisingly, it goes unmentioned that Islamic propaganda was introduced into the MCU by ways of the Muslim Ms. Marvel. To date, pretty much all of the adaptations featuring Khan were failures, and it remains to be seen if Marvel Tokon will be the same, no matter how it’s designed and the cast is characterized (I do think that, if the costume design for Capt. America is based on what’s seen in live action films, that’s decidedly laughable).
Maybe Boone only got to make “half” the movie he wanted, but if it’s horror-themed, that’s another reason why it’s for the best if it was a flop. Back in the day, the X-Men comics may have built upon darkness, but horror themes were never that heavy, except maybe when the villain from Tomb of Dracula turned up (and certainly did at one point in Dr. Strange’s series). And up to the turn of the century, they did have more of a decent sense of humor than what we see today. New Mutants as a comic deserves far better than these live action adaptations, and it’s best to put them to bed already.
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