THE NEW MUTANTS Director Josh Boone Reveals Original Plan For His Scrapped Trilogy

THE NEW MUTANTS Director Josh Boone Reveals Original Plan For His Scrapped Trilogy

Marvel Studios intends to reboot the X-Men franchise for the MCU (eventually), but The New Mutants director Josh Boone has now shared his original plans for a trilogy of movies starring these heroes...

By JoshWilding - Jul 24, 2020 05:07 AM EST
Filed Under: New Mutants
Source: Slash Film

The New Mutants is almost definitely going to be a standalone feature; it was shot all the way back in 2017, and has since had a long list of different release dates before being booked in for the end of next month. Considering the likes of Tenet and Mulan are now undated, that seems like wishful thinking, and it was predicted to disappoint even before COVID-19. 

The New Mutants director Josh Boone actually pitched a trilogy back when Fox was still in charge, and in an interview with Slash Film, he detailed what that would have ultimately entailed.

"We had plans, obviously, to bring in new characters in the next movie – the character of Warlock was featured in all the early drafts of the script, but it was so expensive that we weren’t able to do it," Boone explains. "Basically, cutting him out of the narrative allowed us to make the film. So our plan was always to have Warlock come back in the next one and try to tell his story then."

"They were all supposed to be kind of separate horror genre films: the first one’s like a rubber reality horror movie, the second one was supposed to be an alien invasion movie with Warlock, and then the third one was going to take all these elements from the X-Men crossover from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s called 'Inferno' to be a kind of supernatural, apocalyptic horror movie. That was the plan."

Honestly, that sounds like a great approach, and it could have been really cool seeing the New Mutants fighting off a horde of demons in New York City. The likes of Madelyne Pryor and Mister Sinister showing up was probably a given, too, and Magik transforming into Darkchylde would've been great to watch play out in live-action. 

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Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 7/24/2020, 5:19 AM
Woulda coulda shoulda = nothing imo.

Just put this thing on streaming and be done with it.
Se4M4NSt4ine
Se4M4NSt4ine - 7/24/2020, 5:24 AM
@Feralwookiee - does someone need a hug?
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 7/24/2020, 5:31 AM
@Se4M4NSt4ine - I agree. It sounds like Josh Boone might need a hug, but sorry, I'm social distancing.
Superspecialawesomeguy
Superspecialawesomeguy - 7/24/2020, 5:28 AM
Not gonna lie that sounds like it would've been pretty cool but that's just me though.

Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 7/24/2020, 5:29 AM
Inferno is one of those storylines i would really like to see on the big screen, don't see how it would've worked under Fox considering the main characters basically retired unless you just want to adapt the hell part minus the Goblin queen etc...

Hopefully MS will go there eventually in order to introduce Essex but...yeah, i don't know how far they will go with the overall mood of the movie.
Fingers crossed, i just have to survive long enough to see this shit. :P
tmp3
tmp3 - 7/24/2020, 5:38 AM
Josh Boone seems like a pretty nice guy from the interviews I saw of SDCC@Home. If nothing else, I’m happy for him that his cut is the one seeing the light of day, since for a while it didn’t seem that way
Moriakum
Moriakum - 7/24/2020, 5:47 AM
They had plans for a trilogy. How sweet!

demery
demery - 7/24/2020, 5:49 AM
Now I'm sad we won't get to see a sequel with Antonio Banderas as the bad guy.

Antonio Banderas as a good guy is great, Antonio Banderas as an anti-hero is fantastic, and Antonio Banderas as a bad guy will never be a bad thing for me even in the worst of the worst.

Antonio Banderas as a bad guy in a comic book flick? Would've seen the sequel on opening day no matter if the first flick was good, bad, or OK at best.
rebellion
rebellion - 7/24/2020, 5:51 AM
Inferno is one of my favorite storylines, i hope mcu can build towards something like that.
Im just sad anya probably wont continue as magik, she is PERFECTLY cast.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 7/24/2020, 6:02 AM
I wouldn't have had much faith in Fox adapting a 30+ issue storyline like Inferno into a two hour movie.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 7/24/2020, 6:14 AM
@Reeds2Much - Why not?
The Dark Phoenix storyline spanned quite a few issues, and they adapted that into a two hour movie.





Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 7/24/2020, 6:21 AM
@Feralwookiee - Twice!
adamcawa
adamcawa - 7/24/2020, 6:29 AM
@Reeds2Much - well you'd have to assume they would cut out everything except the demon invasion; all the stuff with Sinister and Pryor, all the crossovers, nothing with the X-Men. the new mutants components of that storyline was pretty compact- they go to limbo, illyana gets tricked, they battle demons, illyana goes Darkchilde, Rahne snaps her out of it, turns to a kid.
adamcawa
adamcawa - 7/24/2020, 6:20 AM
If it makes money, they'll make a sequel. Not sure how it could possibly make money in this climate, but then again...
WeaponXCII
WeaponXCII - 7/24/2020, 6:37 AM
I kind of feel bad for Boone with all of the delays happening, since he really seems to be one of the few people at Fox who actually, y’know, care about the comics.
Goldboink
Goldboink - 7/24/2020, 6:57 AM
Horror isn't really the Marvel Brand. They have adapted comic book movies into genre films like the Buddy Comedy and the Political Thriller but haven't gone full on Horror. Methinks that is the main reason that Scott Derickson split because he wanted to go full on scary and Marvel likes those tense moments to be buffered by humor etc. As big a fan base as the X-Men and other mutants have in the comic reading world I don't see an appetite for it for general audiences. I think it will be a decade before X-Men are introduced and it will likely be after the next big event. There are just too many other properties to be mined and Fox kind of played those characters out over the course of 20 years of films.
adamcawa
adamcawa - 7/24/2020, 7:06 AM
I know everyone wants to see the X-Men over at Marvel Studios, but honestly, I think Disney should consider a Deadpool-verse and include New Mutants in it if it turns out to be successful.

Keeping the X-Men separate from the MCU would make the inevitable Secret Wars crossover that much bigger, imo.
marvel72
marvel72 - 7/24/2020, 7:32 AM
Inferno is one of the best mutant stories,would have been awesome to have seen.
Odin
Odin - 7/24/2020, 7:56 AM
Respectable for director to have a clear vision like that. And also having a mapped out plan for trilogy from the start, that's something you can't take as a given in nowadays Hollywood. Also, weren't they suppose to have Jon Hamm as Mr. Sinister at some point. That would've been awesome casting.
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