The final poster for New Mutants, released to celebrate the film's debut in theaters, turns the X-Men logo into a cage for the young cast. Co-written and directed by Josh Boone, the movie was initially meant to tie directly into Fox's X-Men Universe, even including Storm as a major character at one point, launching a group of new characters to carry the franchise forward. However, after being delayed multiple times, the movie has ended up being released as a standalone effort, given that the Fox X-Men universe is officially dead.
However, the DNA of the movie is still rooted in the X-Men comics, being based on the characters created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod in the early 1980s. It follows a group of gifted young mutants, played by Anya Taylor-Joy (Illyana Rasputin), Blu Hunt (Dani Moonstar), Charlie Heaton (Sam Guthrie), Maisie Williams (Rahne Sinclair) and Henry Zaga (Roberto Da Costa). Alice Braga also appears, as Dr. Cecilia Reyes, a supposed mentor to the group, as well as their defacto captor.
Now, the final poster for New Mutants has been released to tie in with the film's release in theaters. The atmospheric one sheet features all of the characters making up the New Mutants, with the shadow of a fence falling on their faces. However, the fence pattern also happens to make a very distinctive X shape on all of the character's faces, making it look like the X-Men logo. You can see the full poster below.
The poster is a clear allusion to the movie's connection to the X-Men and the fact that the characters spend a great deal of the movie thinking their mutant powers could qualify them to be X-Men. Unfortunately for Boone and the cast, who have had to wait almost three years for the film's release, New Mutants has not been received well, connection to X-Men or not. Early reviews are worse than those for X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which was considered a franchise-killing box office disaster.
Based on the poor critical reception, as well as the fact that the movie is being released in theaters during the coronavirus pandemic when many cinemas are still closed, and audiences are hesitant to watch movies where they are open, New Mutants is unlikely to be a smash hit. It's an unfortunate way to end things for Fox's X-Men universe, given that the first movie, released all the way back in 2000, essentially launched the modern superhero blockbuster.
The upside, for Marvel at least, is that this allows them to restart their own X-Men universe without having to connect it to any of Fox's movies. However that universe is launched, whether by introducing X-Men characters in one of the upcoming Phase 4 movies or with a new reboot movie, it's looking increasingly likely that the versions of the New Mutants seen in this movie will not make an appearance.
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