Any film franchise that continues as long as Fox’s X-Men movies encounter some obstacles. And maybe some giant holes that consume vehicles on the road. While X-Men: Apocalypse It was not a financial disaster (grossing $ 500 million worldwide), the film was a creative failure at the highest level, and earned the disdain of critics and the informal public alike. The film’s numbing tone and generic plot were especially jarring considering what Logan and dead Pool They were doing with the franchise at that same point.
And it turns out that the reaction to Apocalypse had ramifications for The new mutants, forcing the co-writer and director Josh Boone to make some significant changes in history.
Speaking to us in a recent interview, Boone told us that 20th Century Fox encouraged him to make a movie that felt different from the rest of the X-Men package … even though they were forced to make some radical changes. Originally, the film was established in the 1980s and featured characters from Apocalypse and other key X-Men characters. But the studio decided it was time to cut ties to that era of the X-Men universe. According to Boone:
We were lucky. They really wanted it to be different from other things. They really pushed us to keep it separate from the X-Men stuff, even though it’s set in the X-Men universe. We had initial drafts that were supposed to be on the same timeline as[[[[X Men:] Apocalypse, so it would originally be established in the 80s. Originally, Professor X and Storm were in it, and Storm played the role of Alice Braga a lot. Over the course of the months, a new studio manager came in and they said they no longer wanted any X-Men movies to take place in the past, as if that was the reason why Apocalypse that was wrong. [laughs] So they put us in the position where we rewrote it so that it now establishes itself in a nebulous [point in time]Because no one knew how the movies had turned out. Dark fenix He was not out yet. Yes, it’s there, they talk about Professor X and stuff, but he has no cameos from anyone or anything like that.
While the 80s setting may have added to New mutants‘tone of horror, this looks like it could have been a blessing in disguise. Rather than having any connection to luggage from previous X-Men movies, New Mutants he is allowed to be alone and let his new characters shine.
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