While we’re (pleasantly) surprised that Disney’s 20th Century Fox is releasing The New Mutants in theaters (April 3, 2020), it looks as if my insider was right on the money regarding the film’s planned reshoots.

I had been told and reported/tweeted on many occasions that Josh Boone would not be getting behind the camera for additional photography. In fact, producer Simon Kinberg was supposed to help rework the Marvel comics adaptation that would have included Antonio Banderas as Mr. Sinister and allegedly made it “scarier”.

The “he said, she said” gets a little convoluted as both sides were making claims and we haven’t been sure where Boone and Kinberg actually stand. (To be frank, there’s a lot of misinformation being spread.)

No matter, where we stand today is that Fox plans to release The New Mutants on April 3rd with allegedly no changes to Boone’s original cut; at least that’s what the filmmaker claims in the following response to a tweet…

What I’d tell ya, New Mutants will be Boone’s version https://t.co/yeWAueJOfL pic.twitter.com/DJZrFOmwl6 — KC Walsh (@TheComixKid) December 31, 2019

It never really made sense for them to tinker with the original cut, although reports on It: Chapter One‘s success pressuring execs to make changes make a lot of sense. Either way, we’re finally getting our X-Men-based “horror” film and hope it does well enough to sell Disney on more.

In the film, “five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.”

The cast includes Henry Zaga as Roberto da Costa a.k.a Sunspot, a mutant with the ability to absorb and channel solar power; Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar, the Native American telepath also known as “Mirage”; Alice Braga as Dr. Cecilia Reyes, a medical doctor who has the ability to generate a protective bio-field around herself but also has more going on than she lets on; Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana Rasputin, also known as Magik, who uses teleportation; Charlie Heaton as Sam Guthrie, a.k.a. Cannonball; and Maisie Williams as Rahne Sinclair, a.k.a. Wolfsbane, who can turn into a wolf.

Watch for the new trailer next week.