‘You could throw the movie out, start over, and it would still be the least expensive X-Men movie so far,” the sources recall a high-ranking Fox executive claiming.
So The New Mutants is just what it is, opening in theaters (at least the ones that are open themselves) tomorrow.
With The New Mutants finally coming to theaters after literally years of delays, there’s a massive story in Vulture about some of the reasons why the final X-Men movie from 20th Century Fox (now part of Disney) took so long to finish.
In postproduction, a studio executive noted that a total do-over would not necessarily be a financial wipeout given the film’s relatively bargain budget.