Yahoo News Next X-Men film is The Breakfast Club meets The Shining
20th Century Fox's X-Men/Marvel universe is shaping up to be one of the most interesting superhero franchises thanks to playing with genre and audience expectations on movies like Logan and Deadpool.
Well, they show no sign of slowing down, and will be drawing on horror movies for the next outing, New Mutants, which has some interesting influences.
"If we're going to make a superhero movie, we have to ask ourselves: 'What's our version? What's a Fox Marvel film?'" Fox CEO Stacey Snider told Variety.
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"When you look at films like Deadpool or Logan or the upcoming New Mutants, you'll see they have their own personality. Great effort has been put into making sure they're differentiated. New Mutants is about these teenagers who are just coming into their powers.
"It's like watching mutants go through adolescence and they have no impulse control, so they're dangerous. The only solution is to put them in a Breakfast Club detention/Cuckoo's Nest institutional setting. It protects the people on the outside, but it's strange and combustible inside. The genre is like a haunted house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers.
"We haven't seen it as a superhero movie whose genre is more like The Shining than 'we're teenagers let's save the world'."
New Mutants was launched as a comic in the '80s as a younger class of students at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
Josh Boone is directing the movie, which stars Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things), Henry Zaga, Blu Hunt and Alice Braga.
New Mutants will be released on April 13, 2018.
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