The New Mutants is set in the X-Men Universe, but it’s already been confirmed that plans for Professor X and Storm to cameo were dropped early on in production. There are still said to be references to other mutants in that world, but director Josh Boone has now revealed that a scrapped sequence would have featured Colossus.

It was never shot, but the Deadpool 2 character appeared in an early draft exploring Magik’s time as a young mutant in Russia with her brother (presumably played by Stefan Kapcic again).

“I had early drafts. We definitely wrote one where Ilyana was in like a field in Russia that was being tilled,” The New Mutants director tells ComicBook.com. “And suddenly her brother comes in and you see all the armor come on him and stop the thing from running her over or whatever. We had stuff like that in earlier drafts that just got further and further away from a budget standpoint and everything else. Which is suddenly Ilyana rescued, and is Colossus’ sister.”

Magik is still Colossus’s sister in The New Mutants, but a cameo from Piotr Rasputin is sadly off the table. That’s a missed trick on Fox’s part, but it’s sounding like Boone’s hands were tied by the budgetary restrictions which were put in place by the studio for his comic book horror film. 

Will we ever get to see Magik and Colossus share the screen? Perhaps, but probably not in this franchise. 

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When the Dark Knight squared off with the Man of Steel in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, he had a big question for Metropolis’ hero: “Tell me, do you bleed?” During the course of their battle, he learned that the answer was “yes,” and when Superman rose from the grave in Justice League, the unhinged Kryptonian asked Batman the same question.

It was actually a pretty cool moment, but when original Justice League director Zack Snyder was asked whether that line is in the “Snyder Cut,” he confirmed that it’s not…and poked fun at it. 

Clearly, it was a Joss Whedon addition as part of the reshoots, which  was obvious based on Henry Cavill’s CGI mouth during his exchange with Ben Affleck’s Caped Crusader. As Snyder points out, it’s a one-liner that doesn’t make a lot of sense, and he would later confirm that the Flash’s Pet Sematary line (another Whedon joke) isn’t in his cut, either. 

Earlier today, Snyder released a new look at Justice League, and the full trailer will premiere during the DC FanDome event on Saturday. Needless to say, it should be very interesting to see just how different his version of the DC Comics adaptation is to the one we saw in theaters back in November of 2017.

Check out Snyder’s comments below:
 

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Vanity Fair has revealed that Ben Affleck is set to reprise the role of Batman in The Flash movie that will race into theaters in 2022. With the Fastest Man Alive confirmed to travel between different realities in the DC Multiverse, it’s already been reported that Michael Keaton will be back as the Caped Crusader, but we never expected to see this version of the hero again. 

Affleck received the script for the movie last week, and has now agreed to star in the project.

“He’s a very substantial part of the emotional impact of the movie,” director Andy Muschietti explains. “The interaction and relationship between Barry and Affleck’s Wayne will bring an emotional level that we haven’t seen before. It’s Barry’s movie, it’s Barry’s story, but their characters are more related than we think. They both lost their mothers to murder, and that’s one of the emotional vessels of the movie. That’s where the Affleck Batman kicks in.”

The filmmaker later added that Keaton’s Batman will have a “substantial” part, but it wouldn’t work for the Flash to meet another Dark Knight without “the original” being part of the proceedings. “He’s the baseline,” the director notes. “He’s part of that unaltered state before we jump into Barry’s adventure. There’s a familiarity there.”

In the same interview, producer Barbara Muschietti reveals that she was surprised Affleck was happy to return as Batman given past comments he made about playing the character, but noted that “he’s now in a very different time in his life. Right now he’s in a place where he can actually enjoy being Batman. It’s a pivotal role, but at the same time it’s a fun part.”

Again, this is news we never saw coming, but Affleck’s Batman will now hopefully get the farewell he deserves, and who knows what else this could lead to down the line.

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Ahead of next week’s theatrical debut of The New Mutants, we sat down with director Josh Boone to chat about his long-awaited X-Men spinoff, and among the many things we discussed, he was quite candid about his original plans for what he envisioned would be a trilogy of films centered on the teenage superheroes. 

Following the Demon Bear storyline in the first film, a potential sequel was going to be an alien invasion movie that would’ve added Warlock and Karma to the team, while the third and final installment would’ve been the most ambitious, adapting the popular “Inferno” storyline and possibly crossing over with the main X-Men continuity.

Boone elaborates, “When we sold it originally, we conceptually sold it as a trilogy, with the second one being an alien invasion movie set in Brazil where Roberto is, where his dad is, who is part of the Hellfire Club. Then, the last one was hopefully going to dovetail with the X-Men movies and we were going to do Inferno, that crossover, which had all these supernatural, satanic horror elements.

The idea was to try to do a different genre, subgenre, of horror movie with each of these movies. That was the idea, but it wasn’t something we thought much about because of the merger and everything else.“

The “Inferno” storyline was a massive crossover in the late ’80s that saw a number of key developments, including the final transformation of Illyana Rasputin (Anya Taylor-Joy) into the Darkchilde, and it sounds like Boone’s third film would have indeed introduced that demonic version of the character.

The mere mention of Darkchilde gets Boone to perk up and he excitedly revealed that prior to filming, he did have discussions with Anya Taylor-Joy about her character’s direction and what would ultimately happen in the potential trilogy capper:

“We told her that in the third movie, there would be two of her. That’s basically what we told her, that there would be two versions of her and that she’d have to play two sides of herself. We were hyped on it!“

Stay tuned for more exclusive The New Mutants coverage throughout the week!

20th Century Fox in association with Marvel Entertainment presents “The New Mutants,” an original horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive.

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