New Mutants sequels would feature Warlock, demons, and alien invasion

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Whenever director Josh Boone's Marvel Comics adaptation THE NEW MUTANTS does finally receive its contractually obligated theatrical release (it's currently scheduled to reach theatres on August 28th, we'll have to wait and see if that happens or not), it's probably not going to receive a sequel, no matter how successful it is. The movie was shot at 20th Century Fox in 2017, delayed for reshoots that never happened, and acquired by Disney when they bought Fox last year. Since the Marvel Cinematic Universe is set up at Disney, it doesn't seem likely that they'll want to make a sequel to a Fox production that doesn't fit into the MCU. But just in case they do, Boone is ready. He and co-writer Knate Lee had mapped out a trilogy, and speaking to Collider he revealed what sort of horrific subject matter the sequels would have been dealing with: 

…we did always have a plan to do a second movie set in Brazil but it’d be Warlock and Karma introduced, and then a third one that utilized the Inferno crossover series from X-Men in the 90s which was one of my favorites growing up, that I thought was in the same tonal ballpark as doing horror stuff in each one. Each one was sort of a different horror movie – the second was gonna be an alien invasion movie and then the third one was gonna be like a Magik, Anya [Taylor-Joy]-related Inferno one. We were ambitious in our minds."

The Inferno series Boone references had the following synopsis: 

The demon-sorcerer N'astirh not only wished to rule Limbo, but Earth as well. He conceived of a plot to kidnap 13 human babies in order to sacrifice them in a ritual known as Inferno. Using the babies' energy, he opened a portal between Limbo and Earth, which grew unnaturally hot and people began to succumb to their evil desires. Inferno had begun.

Boone has previously said that Antonio Banderas would have been playing the villainous character Emmanuel da Costa in the second film, NEW MUTANTS: BRAZIL. It's interesting to hear that an alien invasion would have been in the mix as well.

Speaking with Cinema Blend, Boone talked a bit more about adding Warlock, a character who was meant to be in the first film, into the sequels.

He was in all our early drafts. He was really in it until maybe six months before we shot, but he doubled our budget. It was just too expensive. The studio had a very hard place that they needed it to be at, financially, to launch [the movie]. And Warlock was what left in order to make it possible to make the movie. So our plan was always to put him in the second one. So I hope everybody watches the movie."

Warlock would be expensive to bring to the screen because he is a techno-organic alien that would require some impressive special effects to make him a convincing character.

Karma, who can "mentally possess other beings", would have started off as a villain, then become part of the New Mutants group by the end of the second film.

We may not ever get to see those sequels, but we are getting one NEW MUTANTS film, and the one that got made follows 

a diverse cadre of teens learning to cope with their superpowers. These new mutants find themselves held in a secret facility against their will and must battle the dangers of their powers, as well as the sins of their past.

The film stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana "Magik" Rasputin, Henry Zaga as Roberto "Sunspot" da Costa (son of Emmanuel), Blu Hunt as Dani Moonstar, Maisie Williams as Rahne "Wolfsbane" Sinclair, Charlie Heaton as Sam "Cannonball" Guthrie, and Alice Braga as Dr. Cecilia Reyes.