Charlie Heaton on THE NEW MUTANTS: “They’re going full-fledged horror.”

THE NEW MUTANTS star Charlie Heaton opened up to Entertainment Weekly about 20th Century Fox’s upcoming X-Men spin-off, which he says is going to be a “full-fledged horror” film. Tthe actor described the plot of the film and how it will stand out from the traditional X-Men films.

“It’s basically about these mutants in a facility for damaged mutants,” said Heaton. “It’s a story about these characters coming to grips with who they are and it’s a horror X-Men movie, which we haven’t seen before. I feel like, for an X-Men movie, yeah, I think they’re going full-fledged horror. Without saying too much — I really don’t want to give away too much what it’s about, it’s very under wraps — but it is, in terms of anything we’ve seen in the X-Men world, it definitely is a horror film. It’s scarier than anything we’ve seen in that genre.”

Heaton also talked a bit about his character, Sam Guthrie aka Cannonball, in the the Josh Boone-director film.

“I play Sam Guthrie, whose mutant name is Cannonball. Sam comes from Kentucky, and he’s kind of a working-class boy, and he has the ability to project himself through the sky like a cannonball.”

The New Mutants will arrive in theaters August 2, 2019.