The New Mutants

an original horror thriller directed by Josh Boone and wrien by Boone and Knate Lee. The film stars Emmy® nominee Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Henry Zaga and Blu Hunt. The producers are Simon Kinberg, p.g.a., Karen Rosenfelt and Lauren Shuler Donner with Stan Lee and Michele Imperato Stabile serving as execuve producers.
Rahne Sinclair (Williams), Illyana Raspun (Taylor-Joy), Sam Guthrie (Heaton) and Roberto da Costa (Zaga) are four young mutants being held in an isolated hospital for psychiatric monitoring. Dr. Cecilia Reyes (Braga), believing the teenagers are a danger both to themselves and to society as a whole, keeps a close eye on them as she struggles to teach them how to rein in their mutant abilies. When newcomer Danielle “Dani” Moonstar (Hunt) joins the other paents in the facility, strange occurrences begin to take place. The hospital’s paents are plagued by hallucinaons and flashbacks, and their new mutant abilies—and their friendships—will be tested as they bale to try to make it out alive.
from page to screen
Growing up, Josh Boone (“The Fault in Our Stars”) and wring partner Knate Lee (“Kidnap”) were comic book fanacs obsessed with anything Marvel. As kids, they wrote and illustrated their own comics from their parents’ garages which they sold to friends and family.
Being a teenager is a horror story in itself, and the struggles teens face hit especially close to home for Boone. He enjoyed horror stories like
Stephen King’s “The Stand”
and horror films like “The
Shining,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” and “Jacob’s Ladder.” But as the son of two evangelical Chrisans, he was shamed and punished for his aracon to dark and fantascal stories.
As a result, some of his favorite comics growing up focused on the struggles of teen angst and
growing pains. “Growing up I related to movies like ‘The Lost Boys,’ where you had a group of kids struggling with adolescence,” says Boone. “They helped me realize I wasn’t alone in the world.”
Boone and Lee were both fans of the “X-Men” comics and were especially drawn to the New Mutants storyline, which debuted in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 in 1982. Wri􏰁en by Chris Claremont with illustra􏰀ons by Bob McLeod, the series introduced a whole new cast of characters who had li􏰁le affilia􏰀on with the students from Professor Charles Xavier’s School for Gi􏰂ed Youngsters.
The characters’ powers and backgrounds were more unconven􏰀onal and very psychological compared to the rest of the mainline “X-Men” characters. “It was the first ‘X-Men’ spinoff comic ever, and it was done at a 􏰀me when the X-Men were thought to be dead, so Xavier had to bring new students together,” explains Boone.
In 1984, graphic ar􏰀st Bill Sienkiewicz took over the illustra􏰀ons for the stories, and the narra􏰀ve moved to a more mature kind of storytelling with a darker tone.
Within the New Mutants storyline there was the Demon Bear saga, which revolved around Na􏰀ve American teenager Dani Moonstar confron􏰀ng her demons, both figura􏰀vely and literally, and the New Mutants were forced to overcome self-doubt and distrust and unite to save the life of their new friend. Boone and Lee were both convinced it was the perfect backdrop for an original story u􏰀lizing these exis􏰀ng characters, and thought it was one that would translate well to the big screen.
Twen􏰀eth Century Studios’ history with the X-Men franchise dates back to 2000 and the release of the “X-Men” film. Producer Simon Kinberg produced six of the 􏰀tles in the franchise, and Boone knew he was the key to ge􏰃ng a New Mutants project off the ground. “We wanted it to be a horror story, one that relayed the true horrors of being a teenager in search of themselves,” says Boone.
Together, they pitched Kinberg a female- driven origin story with the Demon Bear storyline as its framework, which introduces the New Mutants to a brand-new audience,
and before long they were off and wri􏰀ng. “Although we incorporate similar themes from the comics, this is very much its own unique story,” says Boone. “Though there are references to the X-Men, and our characters know who the X-Men are, this a stand-alone world where if you took these characters and tried to place them in another X-Men movie, they would seem like outsiders.”
When the story begins, the five protagonists are fragile and confused kids, and by the end of the film they have all become the New Mutants, and it is a story that is told in an interes􏰀ng way. “‘The New Mutants’ is very much a coming-of-age story about young adults accep􏰀ng what’s happened in their pasts so they can move forward into the future,” says producer Karen Rosenfelt (the “Twilight” saga). “We all have a history and past that we have to move beyond, and within this story we wanted to embrace that narra􏰀ve that provides a strong emo􏰀onal spine.”

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