{"id":53721,"date":"2020-05-28T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=53721"},"modified":"2020-05-28T21:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:30:35","slug":"the-new-mutants-new-bts-photos-and-quotes-from-director-josh-boone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=53721","title":{"rendered":"THE NEW MUTANTS: New BTS photos and quotes from director Josh Boone."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">20th Century Studios&#8217; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/the-new-mutants\/\">THE NEW MUTANTS<\/a><\/strong> is featured in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/sfx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SFX Magazine<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/\">Empire Magazine<\/a><\/strong> with new behind the scene photos and quotes from the cast and crew. Fan page <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewMutantsUp\" target=\"_blank\">@NewMutantsUp<\/a><\/strong> has given a preview of what&#8217;s inside!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ultimately, after all this time, I was able to make MY <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewMutants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewMutants<\/a> film, and I&#8217;m am proud of it. What I&#8217;m hoping for now is that it will be successful enough so the studio will allow me to complete a trilogy. I&#8217;ve got all planned out. &#8211; Josh Boone for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFXmagazine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SFXmagazine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QW5Q97GgEF\">pic.twitter.com\/QW5Q97GgEF<\/a><\/p>\u2014 New Mutants Updates (@NewMutantsUp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewMutantsUp\/status\/1265531672482717702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director <strong>Josh Boone<\/strong> confirmed that early drafts of the film took place in the <em>X-Men: Apocalypse<\/em> timeline and even featured appearances from Professor X (James McAvoy) and Storm (Alexandra Shipp). That eventually was dropped in favor of making the film a standalone in the legendary mutant universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New images from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFXmagazine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SFXmagazine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewMutants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewMutants<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7DQ4CABgO8\">pic.twitter.com\/7DQ4CABgO8<\/a><\/p>\u2014 New Mutants Updates (@NewMutantsUp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewMutantsUp\/status\/1265528199880024064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Describing the tone of the film, Boone said (via <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrRossGeller_\/status\/1265558882979647491\" target=\"_blank\">@DrRossGeller_<\/a><\/strong>): &#8220;In terms of the look and tone, I would describe this film as being like <em>The Breakfast Club<\/em> meets <em>Firestarter<\/em> meets <em>The Shining<\/em>. It&#8217;s like a dark version of <em>The Breakfast Club<\/em> in terms of the dynamic that exists within this group. They have teenage problems to go along with the problems that their powers have created for them. The journey that they take is fun, gory, honest and it&#8217;s also really scary.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New images from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/empiremagazine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@empiremagazine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewMutants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewMutants<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8kr5vAyR92\">pic.twitter.com\/8kr5vAyR92<\/a><\/p>\u2014 New Mutants Updates (@NewMutantsUp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewMutantsUp\/status\/1265526839151337472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The New Mutants<\/em> is currently slated to arrive in theaters on August 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources: <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/sfx\/\" target=\"_blank\">SFX Magazine<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/\">Empire Magazine<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewMutantsUp\" target=\"_blank\">@NewMutantsUp<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrRossGeller_\/status\/1265558882979647491\" target=\"_blank\">@DrRossGeller_<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20th Century Studios&#8217; THE NEW MUTANTS is featured in SFX Magazine and Empire Magazine with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53732,"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":"#NewMutants: BTS photos and quotes from director Josh Boone.","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":[15,26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-photos","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\/05\/nm-boone-joy-heaton.jpg?fit=1200%2C718&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53721","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=53721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}