It’s not a relationship adapted from the comics, but writer/director Josh Boone felt it was an important inclusion in the story, and per Blu Hunt, the actress playing Dani, it will present audiences with a classic cinematic take on love at first sight.
While The New Mutants is primarily being sold as a comic book horror feature, with the titular team of powerful youths trapped in a spooky hospital going toe-to-toe with a malevolent and mysterious spirit, the film also mixes things up genre-wise by featuring a romantic subplot – specifically a romance between Dani Moonstar and Rahne Sinclair.