This year's Comic Con Experience in Sao Paulo, Brazil brought comic book movie fans plenty of exciting news. 20th Century Fox hosted a panel that featured presentations on the studio’s various projects, including Josh Boone's upcoming The New Mutants. Marketed as a horror flick, New Mutants has already captured moviegoers’ attention with its well-received teaser trailer.
Fox has apparently hit the right target again with this film, which should be rated R, given its genre. The Comic Con Experience footage impressed the audience, as evidenced in the tweet below:
Just saw some new footage from New Mutants, where they were using a lie detector and taking turns talking about each other’s powers. Then a montage of shots showing a ton of action. Looks very cool and completely unlike any other superhero movie. Which is what I want. pic.twitter.com/UPmajJ9Qzf
"” Steven Weintraub (@colliderfrosty) December 8, 2017
If you’d like to see a full description, check it out here. Keep in mind that there will be spoilers!
The young mutants find a hidden place at the hospital where they’re being held. There, they find a “lie detector”, and they think it will be fun to use it to get to know each other better.
The first to sit in the chair, Roberto da Costa, aka Sunspot, says he already has many girls. The machine points out that he’s lying, so he confesses that he’s never had any! Then we see a short frame showing a little bit of his powers. In the panel, Henry Zaga states that the character suffered an accident in Brazil, and was sent to the hospital run by Dr. Cecilia Reyes (Alice Braga).
Each character faces the lie detector, and some of his or her powers are shown. In one passage, Maisie Williams growls as she begins her transformation into Lupine.
The scene has a very youthful mood, despite the darker tone of the overall movie. The characters are curious and provocative with each other, but piece by piece, a sense of “safe zone” shows up. They seem to understand that they can be themselves with each other, despite their traumas of the past. This is a group of tragic heroes.
However, Magik, played Anya Taylor-Joy, is the character who stands out. With sarcasm, she uses the lie detector, and says that she’s in that place because she’s killed 18 men. One by one. In a moment of action, she seems to conjure up her famous Soulsword, attacking Danielle Moonstar, aka Mirage (via CBM).
Obviously, the scene reveals nothing of any great importance to the plot. It does seem to indicate that the tone is completely different from that of past X-Men movies.
We hope that if Disney takes over, these movies will continue to show the darker side of the superhero genre.
The New Mutants will be released on April 13, 2018.
