The updated trailer for the much-anticipated (and much-delayed) The New Mutants movie is finally here, and it looks like the darkest entry in the X-Men series yet.
Things kick off when a young girl named Danielle Moonstar aka Mirage (Blu Hunt) survives a horrific accident, only to wake up chained to a hospital bed. Held against her will in a secret facility run by Dr. Cecilia Reyes (Alice Braga), she proceeds to meet other young mutants just like her, who go around in a circle sharing the life-altering traumatic events that led to their hospitalization: Rahne Sinclair aka Wolfsbane (Maisie Williams) who “just lost control” in a church; Sam Guthrie aka Cannonball (Charlie Heaton) who “started panicking” and “people got hurt”; Roberto da Costa aka Sunspot (Henry Zaga), who “burned” his girlfriend; and Ilyana Rasputin aka Magik (Anya Taylor-Joy), who “killed 18 men, one by one.” As Danielle explores the facility, however, she discovers that this hospital is more of a “cage.” Subjected to unethical experiments and stumbling across secrets they weren’t supposed to see, the young mutants have to band together as they attempt to escape.
The New Mutants arrives in theaters April 3, 2020.
Well, it’s different at least. Not coming off as Generic Superhero Movie #354 at least. Sadly, even if it’s really good, I don’t think it’ll get followed up at all, with the merger.
I am curious to see how much of the comic backstory of Ilyana Rasputin is used.
As a massive New Mutants fangoober from the very beginning in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 back in the mists of prehistory, I am actually very excited about this. I like that they’re sticking with most of the core early group, though I’m sorry Karma’s not there. I get why Warlock and Magma aren’t, also, as they’re a bit too powerful for a locked-hospital horror movie.
And yeah, Illyana looks awesome…..
—Keith R.A. DeCandido
I’ve never been an X-Men fan (OK, when Neal Adams was drawing it, but that’s it). Not in the comics and I had no interest in seeing the movies. I watched the trailer out of morbid curiosity. I loved it! I know nothing of the New Mutants background in the comics, but this is the first X-Men movie that I’m actually excited to see.
It looks fun as a kind of mutant horror movie, and for that reason I want to see it, but as an X-Men movie I guess we’ll have to see how it fits.
That said, I feel like everything about this trailer is so generic, from it being too dark to even see anything, to the jump scares, to innocuous dialogue being delivered with great import, to the creepy and gradually escalating remix of a classic rock song.
It actually reminded me of this. It’s like they non-ironically cribbed this whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOdjqyG37A
Lisamarie: OMG, THAT VIDEO IS BRILLIANT!
—Keith R.A. DeCandido
@6 – I love the Auralnauts :)
But I actually watched the two back to back just now and…it is honestly hilariously similar. The New Mutants trailer does have a bit more of a horror feel as opposed to a ‘hero movie’ feel but especially all the bwaaas and booj and string clusters and ominous quotes…pretty much :)