Josh Boone Says There Were No Talks About Making New Mutants Part of the MCU

New Mutants is not proving to be a well-loved film, which probably makes it for the best that, per Josh Boone, there were no talks to move it into an MCU-set film. Boone spoke with Den of Geek for a new interview and discussed the film, which opened to $7 million over the weekend — fairly decent, considering that only 62% of theaters were open and even those were mostly at very limited capacity. While its financial signs weren’t bad, the film is not going over well with critics or fans who have panned it at just an aggregate score of 33% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 41 on Metacritic, and a 53% audience score.

When asked if there were ever any conversations about tweaking the film to fit in the MCU, Boone said, “No, none at all. I just really finished the process we’d already gotten kind of 70% of the way through before the merger happened. It was nice to have the retrospect of the year where I was off working on The Stand and doing other things to come back and look at it, because we sat there and did other little things here and there.”

He continued, “I love Marvel movies, but we were a Fox Marvel movie. So it’s like as far as what that means or what it means to them, I don’t have any ide. We just sort of made the movie we wanted to make at Fox, and we were inherited by Disney. The cast and I would certainly go make another one in a second if we could, and I’d love to see these characters at least carried on in some way because I don’t think anybody’s got a better young cast.”