Josh Boone Confirms The New Mutants Did No Reshoots

Josh Boone has confirmed that, despite a long delay while under Fox’s ownership so that reshoots could be done, The New Mutants is all his original footage. Boone spoke with EW about the X-Men horror film, which focuses on the titular team of teenage mutants who are stuck in an asylum, and sets the record straight on the many reports that Fox tried to do reshoots that were continually delayed, which caused the film to be bumped again and again.

“Everybody said we did reshoots! We’ve never done reshoots,” Boone told EW. “And I’ll tell you this: if there hadn’t been a merger, I’m sure we would’ve done reshoots the same way every movie does pickups. We didn’t even do that because by the time the merger was done and everything was settled, everybody’s older.”

Boone noted that the biggest delay for the film came as a result of the Disney-Fox merger. “We had heard nothing because of the merger,” he said. “It was radio silence for about a year where we had no new information at all … When they called me right before I went to go make The Stand and said, ‘Would you come finish the movie?’ I said, ‘I would f**kin’ love to come finish the movie!’”

Maisie Williams, who plays Rahne Sinclair (aka Wolfsbane) in the film, is looking forward to fans getting to see it. “The movie is exactly the movie we set out to make,” she said. “I was nervous when they were talking about reshooting or re-editing that it was gonna be very different, but honestly, it’s exactly what we set out to do.”

She added, “It’s very… thriller. I think the nature of a bunch of teenagers being trapped at a facility, all with individual powers which they don’t know how to use yet or even summon, that lends itself really well to suspense and scary cuts. It’s all done in a very honest way and it really does come from the characters and the situations that they’re in. It’s not a happy, upbeat superhero comedy film. It’s definitely very dark.”

The film also stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana Rasputin (Magik), Charlie Heaton as Sam Guthrie (Cannonball), Henry Zaga as Roberto da Costa (Sunspot), and Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar (Mirage). It is finally set to release on April 3rd — assuming, that is, no more mergers happen.