‘New Mutants’ Will Complete Reshoots This Year, Might As Well Be ‘Old Mutants’
By Ethan Anderton/May 30, 2019 8:30 am EST
New Mutants producer Simon Kinberg has been making the publicity rounds for directing Dark Phoenix, so questions have inevitably turned to the status of The New Mutants. Digital Spy was able to get him to provide an update on the movie from director Josh Boone, and Kinberg said:
So The New Mutatnts still has to complete reshoots. It sounds like what held the schedule up was getting the ensemble cast of the movie back together. After all, it includes Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik, Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane, Henry Zaga as Sunspot, Blu Hunt as Dani Moonstar, and Charlie Heaton as Cannonball. At least a couple of those stars are quite in-demand at the moment, so getting them back together to do extensive reshoots probably wasn’t easy.
Then again, it also sounds like that figuring out what they needed to accomplish with those reshoots also required some time. There were rumblings that the reshoots were intended to make the movie scarier. Another story said the reshoots were going to add another character to the mix, but that was when the movie was slated for release in August of 2019. We’ve also heard the movie could still end up being R-rated after reshoots are done, but that seems far less likely now that Disney will be the studio releasing the film and likely wants to recoup whatever they can from this troubled production.
