NEW MUTANTS Director Josh Boone Says Sacha Baron Cohen Was In Talks To Play Warlock

NEW MUTANTS Director Josh Boone Says Sacha Baron Cohen Was In Talks To Play Warlock

Josh Boone was forced to scrap plans to introduce Warlock in The New Mutants, but the director has now revealed that the character almost made the cut, and Sacha Baron Cohen was in talks to play him...

By MarkCassidy - Aug 18, 2020 06:08 PM EST
Filed Under: New Mutants

The New Mutants director Josh Boone has already spoken about wanting to introduce Warlock in his X-Men spinoff, but it sounds like the fan-favorite alien came a lot closer to making the final draft than we realized - and Boone even had someone in mind to play him.

During an interview with Nerdist, Boone revealed that he had conversations with none other than Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali-G, Borat, Les Miserables) about potentially coming on board to provide the voice for what would have been a fully CG character. He didn't say how close it came to becoming a reality, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway because the studio threw a spanner in the works.

Budget constraints meant that Boone was basically forced to choose between Warlock and the villainous Demon Bear, and obviously settled on the latter.

The New Mutants probably won't get a sequel (if it performs much better than expected it is possible, but unlikely), so chances are we won't get to see Warlock make his big screen debut for a very long time. If it were to happen, though, we might just see Doug Ramsay, aka Cypher, introduced alongside his "self friend."

The New Mutants is set to hit theaters on August 28. No press screenings are being held, which may not be a very good sign - although it could simply indicate that we'll see a Disney+ release shortly after.

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Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 8/18/2020, 6:30 PM
Yeesh.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 8/18/2020, 6:34 PM
Will this movie ever happen?

Kevwebsz
Kevwebsz - 8/18/2020, 9:03 PM
@Darkknight2149 - lmaoo
Se4M4NSt4ine
Se4M4NSt4ine - 8/18/2020, 6:36 PM
ATrueHero1987
ATrueHero1987 - 8/18/2020, 6:39 PM
Theaters nearby are opening up this. If when Tenant comes out, idk if I will be ready to go to the movies then...
ChimiFnChangas
ChimiFnChangas - 8/18/2020, 9:46 PM
@ATrueHero1987 - Advance screenings of Tenet this weekend where I am. :D
tmp3
tmp3 - 8/18/2020, 6:41 PM
He's hit or miss but his recent Conservative rally appearance was [frick]ing hilarious


Don't know too much about Warlock, so I don't know if he'd be a good fit or not, but he seems to be doing more serious work as of late between The Spy and the new Aaron Sorkin film.
MasterMix
MasterMix - 8/18/2020, 6:43 PM
Goldboink
Goldboink - 8/18/2020, 6:50 PM
Thinnest story evah
MrCamw1
MrCamw1 - 8/18/2020, 7:02 PM
" Come on and mak'a my day, jew". -Borat.
MovieMonster
MovieMonster - 8/18/2020, 7:05 PM
I love Sacha Baron Cohen and would love to see him take on a CBM role in the future. I don’t know much about Warlock but he seems like a crazy character.

On a sidenote, my sister got tickets for her and I to see this movie on the 27th. However, the fact that this isn’t being screened for critics makes me nervous. I’m not expecting this to be great but I hope it’s at least decent.
tmp3
tmp3 - 8/18/2020, 7:45 PM
@MovieMonster - No press screenings? Disney really is burying this, huh...
WeaponXCII
WeaponXCII - 8/18/2020, 7:23 PM
I haven’t gotten into the New Mutants comics much, so it would have been nice to get some exposure to the character. Maybe in another movie down the road.
Rosraf
Rosraf - 8/18/2020, 9:03 PM
@WeaponXCII - Warlock has enough good storylines that I can see them being used in a later movie.
SummersEssex
SummersEssex - 8/18/2020, 8:45 PM
That would have been amazing. Haters all get bent. Even the thought that they were going to include Warlock and use Cohen is more evidence that this will probably be the best X-Men movie yet.
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 8/18/2020, 9:23 PM
Honestly I could see him doing some sort of facial capture for the role.
FlixMentallo21
FlixMentallo21 - 8/18/2020, 9:36 PM
If there's one character I think he'd be perfect for, it'd be...Rhesus-2, the right-hand to Lord Nebula in a movie based on Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys. He'd be a great successor to Malcolm McDowell.
Shroombeast
Shroombeast - 8/19/2020, 12:07 AM
I love SBC, but I [frick]ing hate Warlock.
Superspecialawesomeguy
Superspecialawesomeguy - 8/19/2020, 4:14 AM
That actually sounds pretty cool lol.
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