{"id":53325,"date":"2020-03-25T11:38:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=53325"},"modified":"2020-03-25T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:42:22","slug":"writer-knate-lee-says-the-new-mutants-features-many-marvel-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=53325","title":{"rendered":"Writer Knate Lee says THE NEW MUTANTS features many Marvel &#8220;firsts.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Empire Magazine (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/empireonline.om\" target=\"_blank\">Empire Magazine<\/a> (before the Coronavirus outbreak), <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/the-new-mutants\/\">THE NEW MUTANTS<\/a><\/strong> writer <strong>Knate Lee<\/strong> says he feels the multiple release date changes might actually help the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee, who&#8217;s a frequent collaborator of director Josh Boone pointed out how the <em>X-Men<\/em> horror thriller will feature a lot of &#8220;firsts&#8221; for a Marvel film and the comic book movie genre as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In a weird way, I think the delay&#8217;s been good for us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Last year, I saw the most epic, grand-scale superhero movie ever [Avengers: Endgame]. You can&#8217;t go bigger than that. &#8220;So, it feels like the perfect time for a superhero movie that&#8217;s more intimate and claustrophobic. And we still have so many &#8216;firsts&#8217;: we&#8217;re the first Marvel horror, we&#8217;re the first to feature a gay relationship. Even though we&#8217;re late\u2026 we still beat everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/empireonline.om\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Empire Magazine (opens in a new tab)\">Empire Magazine<\/a> via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Digital Spy (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a31729152\/new-mutants-release-date-delays-good-says-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Spy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking with Empire Magazine (before the Coronavirus outbreak), THE NEW MUTANTS writer Knate Lee says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-release-dates","category-new-mutants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nm-rah-dan.jpg?fit=930%2C530&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}