The New Mutants is like The Shining and Breakfast Club, apparently?

That’s a lot of classic cinema right there, and a lot of really strange choices for influences. The Shining is a straight-up horror maze, while the other two are different takes on a bunch of different people forced to interact by way of imprisonment.

I can kind of make sense of it, though. If every movie is about saving the world, it gets boring. Marvel’s mutants have had to face a ton of adversity in their time, originating as a Civil Rights allegory and facing challenges to that affect, one after another, including forced registration and the conversion of Professor X’s school into a de facto reservation. Locking up some young mutants makes some sense as a starting point, and if these kids aren’t in control of their powers it could definitely turn into a horror flick pretty quickly.

If Fox wants to make more stuff like Logan and Deadpool instead of stuff like X-Men: Apocalypse, I’m not going to tell them no. This sounds interesting, and I want to see more of it. X-Men: The New Mutants is set to hit theaters on April 13, 2018.

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