Josh Boone says The New Mutants sequel would have introduced Warlock & Karma

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

It's certainly been a long road bringing THE NEW MUTANTS to the big-screen, but at long last, the release of Josh Boone's X-MEN spin-off is less than a month away, and despite all the rumours of reshoots, Boone has said that the film is exactly the one he set out to make. While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Boone did reveal that there was one scene he never got to shoot – the post-credit tease.

It was intentional that we didn't shoot it. We had always planned to have a tag at the end of the movie that introduced the villain for the next movie. We even had an actor cast, but because of the merger and because Marvel owns X-Men now and is going to do their own thing, there was no reason to go shoot it.

The actor who had been cast was Antonio Banderas, who would have played Emmanuel da Costa, father of Sunspot (Henry Zaga), and Boone added that they "always intended to do New Mutants: Brazil as the second movie." Not only that, but the sequel would have brought in several characters who, largely for budgetary reasons, they weren't able to include in the first movie – the techno-organic alien Warlock and Karma, who has the ability to mentally possess others. "Karma was always going to be the villain in the second movie that would be absorbed into the group by the end," Boone said. "We had always wanted to bring Karma and Warlock into the second one when we couldn't do it in the first one. For us, we wanted that initial core team [for the first movie]. We just couldn't swap out Illyana. We felt like there was no reason to do [the movie] if we couldn't bring that character to life in the first one."

As far as our chances of actually seeing these characters in a sequel to THE NEW MUTANTS, Boones says that it's a bit of a wait-and-see situation at the moment. "In our heart of hearts, we hope [The New Mutants] makes a bunch of money so that we can go make the second one," Boone said. "We're all just bummed at everything that happened. Just the merger and everything else. It had nothing to do with us personally and had an impact on every single movie at Fox at the time." Although it feels like Disney could just be dumping the film to recoup a little money, all bets would be off if THE NEW MUTANTS becomes a major success. Stranger things have happened.

The official synopsis for THE NEW MUTANTS:

20th Century Studios in association with Marvel Entertainment presents The New Mutants, an original horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive.

THE NEW MUTANTS will hit theaters on April 3, 2020.