A report on the messy production issues of 20th Century Studios ‘The New Mutants’ arrived at Vulture just one day before the film’s release in theaters.
It has long been known that the film’s director Josh Boone, 20th Century Fox and Disney all clashed over the film, and that some of the actors like Anya Taylor-Joy had a hard time talking about their experience because of the studio politics. .
From interfering with Boone’s creative vision for the project to talking about extensive reshoots to add new characters and dramatically change the tone of the film, ultimately the film did not change and what we see is Boone’s original vision, while it is a 20th Century Fox movie was essentially left intact.
The new piece indicates that things are more complicated than expected. Boone skipped a Breakfast Club-style “Teen Club movie” with a low-budget, Blumhouse-like horror story, a plan Fox was originally happy with.
The problems started immediately and the script could not be fixed with many different versions existing. Boone originally wanted to emphasize the John Hughes-ian aspects and set the film in the 1980s, Fox wanted to focus more on the horror.
Boone’s interpretation of the characters was also apparently not well received – from a misogynistic teenager who inadvertently sprayed penises on things, to X-Men’s Storm serving as the children’s “sadistic prison” along with a lot of rudeness and uninspired. humor.
With the clear difference in creative directions, Fox brought in several scribes to rewrite, including Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes, Joshua Zetumer, Seth-Grahame Smith, and Scott Frank. No one seemed to crack it.
The film eventually went into production and while the recording went fine, when Fox saw a cut of the film, they were so “dissatisfied”, there was discussion about throwing the whole project out and starting over. By then, Disney’s takeover deal was in full swing and the film became their problem.
Boone himself has pulled out the film and talked to CBM and he confirms part of the story – the setting, the various writers, Storm serves in the prison guard instead of Cecilia Reyes of Alice Braga.
He also says that some changes occurred during the merger, namely Disney insisting that all connections to events in the other X-Men movies were essentially removed, including: “things that would make it would be after another X-Men movie would be this one. ” If the film is a success, he tells Screen Rant that he will be doing an MCU set family focused on “Power Pack” film.
No one is yet sure what to expect – the film is not screened in advance for critics in the US, and many refused to see it due to the unsafe nature of filming at the moment. The film opens new week on international markets.
