THE NEW MUTANTS Director Josh Boone Addresses Budget Cuts; Says He'll Choose His Next Project "More Wisely"

THE NEW MUTANTS Director Josh Boone Addresses Budget Cuts; Says He'll Choose His Next Project "More Wisely"

The New Mutants director Josh Boone has addressed the challenges which came with seeing the movie's budget getting cut, and explains why he'll choose his next project "more wisely." Check it out...

By JoshWilding - Sep 06, 2020 08:09 AM EST
Filed Under: New Mutants
Source: BBC

The New Mutants is definitely a movie that was put through the wringer thanks to multiple delays and a merger between Disney and Fox many believed would lead to it forever remaining unreleased. At the end of last month, it finally arrived in theaters, and it received the response you would probably expect from a release that underwent zero reshoots (when Fox wanted to reshoot the entire thing). 

It was far from a Fantastic Four-shaped disaster - you can read our review by clicking here - but Boone has now reflected on some of those early issues during an interview with BBC

"We were just in a perplexing circumstance that most people don't have to deal with," the filmmaker explained. "I feel like we did it. But oh my God, there were a lot of bumps and bruises. You're holding on to it as it gets smaller and smaller and then eventually you're like, 'I can't believe we made this'. Once you start to find what the movie is, the budget comes in hard, you start to realize you're gonna have to cut your dream of it in half." 

Boone later added, "Not in a bad way, just in a 'reality of Hollywood' way that any director who goes to make a movie eventually has to do. So even if someone's making a $200 million movie, I promise they needed $400 million." Of course, it's no secret that Fox slashed the budget, hence why Warlock ended up being cut...only for them to later decide to add him via those unfilmed reshoots.

While Boone has moved on to work on the small screen adaptation of The Stand, it's unclear how the response to The New Mutants will affect his career moving forward. However, he made it clear he plans to "choose my next project wisely" after comparing this experience to the one he had on 2014 hit The Fault in Our Stars

"That we had just made that and a pandemic happened was already so weird," he reflected. "And now we're releasing a movie about kids in quarantine? And I'm just like - I don't know - I'll choose the next project more wisely." What that will be remains to be seen, but it won't be The New Mutants 2!

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MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 9/6/2020, 9:01 AM
The problem with new mutants, and I'm guessing as I I haven't seen it yet, is they don't have a Joel Kinnaman type. At the very least you should have an Allison Brie type
Whaley87
Whaley87 - 9/6/2020, 1:26 PM
@MyCoolYoung - They originally had an Alexandra Shipp type planned for it.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 9/6/2020, 1:54 PM
@Whaley87 - that's right they did... They played themselves.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 9/6/2020, 9:05 AM
Sounds like a reasonable response to - *gestures at raging dumpster fire*
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 9/6/2020, 9:06 AM
Everything that happened with this movie was like a balloon that kept getting bigger and bigger and rather than eventually popping, it just deflated into a shriveled up piece of nothing.
WeaponXCII
WeaponXCII - 9/6/2020, 9:23 AM
Fox (i.e., Kinberg) really had a problem with directors named Josh, huh?
99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 9/6/2020, 9:39 AM
The budget was maybe one of the least of the movie's flaws. The story was just a little boring, and dragged for way too long. Needed more "jump scares". Mr. Sinister is a really creepy looking character. Had they made an R-rated horror flick with him experimenting and terrifying young mutants, it could've been pretty damn awesome. Oh well.
Bluesman
Bluesman - 9/6/2020, 9:48 AM
Poor guy
RolandD
RolandD - 9/6/2020, 10:10 AM
I have to give them credit for not telling too bitter about it, even if it says public face on this as opposed to what he might be saying to friends and family. Josh trach could’ve used a conversation with Josh Boone’s future self.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/6/2020, 10:30 AM
Movie was COMPLETE ASS

Except for the visual of Magik’s Powers
patgreyc
patgreyc - 9/6/2020, 10:53 AM
@BlackBeltJones - It was pretty much what I figured from the clips, the plot and the trailers.
ElvenKingSlayer
ElvenKingSlayer - 9/6/2020, 1:32 PM
1. Logan
2. Deadpool
3. Days of future past
4. the Wolverine
5. Deadpool 2
6. X-men 2
7. New Mutants
8. First Class
9. X-men

10. Apocalypse
11. Dark Phoenix
12. Last stand
13. X-men Origins Wolverine
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 9/6/2020, 3:10 PM
@ElvenKingSlayer - I assume that the extra line between 9 and 10 signifies the massive drop in quality
ElvenKingSlayer
ElvenKingSlayer - 11/14/2020, 3:15 PM
@bkmeijer - U are very correct in your assumption!
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 11/14/2020, 3:21 PM
@ElvenKingSlayer - gotta say I didn't expect confirmation after such a long time. Guess you took time off
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