Josh Boone, the director of The New Mutants, says the Disney-Fox deal left his film 75% complete for an entire year.
The saga of The New Mutants has been a long one, with the post-production severely held up due to Disney’s purchase of Fox.
It turns out that the movie was actually left 75% complete for a year according to director Josh Boone. The film is finally on its way to us, however, with a scheduled release date of 3rd April 2020.
Speaking to EW, Boone said the time away allowed him and his team to notice things they wouldn’t have done before in the editing process:
“In the editing, we were probably 75 percent done. We came back and finished it up. It took a couple months, and it was nice to be able to come back. Knate [Lee], my co-writer, and I, we hadn’t seen it in a year. We did a bunch of things here and there that we hadn’t thought about or noticed a year before.”
Hopefully, the product that finally lands in cinemas will be worth the wait. At the very least, it’s going to be interesting to see the last film of the Fox-owned X-Men era.
20th Century Fox in association with Marvel Entertainment presents “The New Mutants,” an original horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive.
The New Mutants is directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) and features a cast includes Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) as Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane, Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) as Illyana Rasputin/Magik, Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) as Sam Guthrie/Cannonball, Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why) as Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, Blu Hunt (The Originals) as Danielle Moonstar/Mirage and Alice Braga (Queen of the South) as Dr. Cecilia Reyes. It is set for release on April 3rd, 2020.
