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Your support makes all the difference.A new X-Men trailer has arrived on this already eventful Friday 13th. The New Mutants is taking the franchise down a different, darker path, the upcoming spin-off having a horror tone.
"Do you know what mutants are?", a shifty voiceover asks as the camera creeps along a dark corridor. Horror is set to be at the core of New Mutants as a new generation of mutants discover their powers.
From the first look, the spin-off seems to be keeping with the trend of home-made teenage heroes in horror. The cast includes Stranger Things' Charlie Heaton, and the comparisons with the Netflix sci-fi horror series make sense.
Director Josh Boone, whose previous credits include the adaptation of John Green's bestselling YA novel The Fault In Our Stars previously told Entertainment Weekly: “We're trying to do something very, very different. There are no costumes, there are no supervillains”.
Where exactly The New Mutants fits into the already messy X-Mne timeline remains a mystery. The upcoming The Dark Phoenix will start where Apocalypse left off, most of the original cast from the younger generation set to return, including James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult.
The full cast of (new) mutants includes Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana Rasputin/Magik, Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams as Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane, Charlie Heaton as Sam Guthrie/Cannonball, Henry Zaga as Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar/Mirage and Alice Braga as Cecilia Reyes.
The New Mutants is scheduled for an April 2018 release.
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