Director Josh Boone explains why THE NEW MUTANTS aren’t at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

Screen Rant spoke with THE NEW MUTANTS director Josh Boone, who explained why the young mutants find themselves at a secret medical facility “run by” Dr. Cecilia Reyes (Alice Braga) instead of Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, as seen in all previous X-Men films.

“They’re very much in a place that’s like a psych hold for mutants who are too dangerous to be at the mansion,” said Boone. “You know, I’d tell you more, but there’s twists and turns and all that. But yeah, there’s a doctor there who helps them and they do that stuff. Like I said, a little Girl Interrupted and Cukoo’s Nest and a horror movie.

Set designer Molly Hughes explained the location they chose to film at, which is Medfield State Hospital in Massachusetts; a historic former psychiatric hospital.

“We settled on here because, well, it’s beautiful and it’s isolated and we could have kind of the run of it,” she said. “We did a lot of demolition to create our interiors because we couldn’t just walk into our interiors and shoot them. Most of them were falling down. We kind of came here for the shell. I love the windows and the trees and the old red brick. It has that New England, Salam Witch Trials, possibly English, playing on the X-Mansion, kind of turning that on its head. That’s how we ended up here.”

The New Mutants arrives in theaters on April 3, 2020.

Source: Screen Rant