Anna Daniels
As Boone disclosed to Entertainment Weekly, the reason for the endless speculation about exactly when and how The New Mutants‘ reshoots had taken place is because they never actually happened; even the pickup shoots typical of nearly every major studio production didn’t take place, a situation Boone blames on the Disney/Fox merger.
“Everybody said we did reshoots! We’ve never done reshoots,” Boone said. “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, [the entire cast was] older.”
Boone went on to explain that there was virtually no movement on any aspect of the production from around the time that first trailer was released until well after the merger. “We had heard nothing because of the merger,” he said. “It was radio silence for about a year where we had no new information at all… [then Disney] called me… and said, ‘Would you come finish the movie?’ I said, ‘I would f***in’ love to come finish the movie!'”
It ended up working out, as the time away allowed Boone to come back to the project with fresh eyes. “We came back and finished it up. It took a couple months, and it was nice to be able to come back,” he explained. “Knate [Lee], my co-writer, and I, we hadn’t seen it in a year. We did a bunch of things here and there that we hadn’t thought about or noticed a year before.”
Written by: Looper
