The New Mutants director Josh Boone has revealed why the X-Men spin-off never did any reshoots.
The movie, which follows five teen mutants who are held against their will in a secret facility, was originally planned for release in April 2018, but it encountered major setbacks as a result of the Disney-Fox merger.
It was then widely reported that the film would undergo routine reshoots – a perfectly normal part of the process for many blockbusters – but it was later announced that it would be released in its original form.
Now, Boone has explained that it's most likely because of the disruption caused by Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox, that they didn't get the chance to do the reshoots.
"Everybody said we did reshoots! We've never done reshoots," he told Entertainment Weekly. "And I'll tell you this: if there hadn't been a merger, I'm sure we would've done reshoots the same way every movie does pickups.
"We didn't even do that because by the time the merger was done and everything was settled, everybody's older."
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Having first been pushed back from April 2018 to February 2019, The New Mutants will finally arrive in cinemas next month.
Back in December last year, one of the film's stars Charlie Heaton said: "It's coming out next year, but we filmed it almost two years ago.
"It's the release (date) that's been moved quite a while... We shot this a while back and it's been pushed because Fox has now merged with Disney."
The New Mutants is scheduled for release on April 3, 2020.
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