It sounds like The New Mutants ’ rocky road to the screen was hard on its writer-director.

In a new interview, Josh Boone reflects on the challenges and frustrations he faced during the making of the troubled X-Men spinoff. It was finally released under the Marvel banner to a subdued reaction in 2020, leaving Boone to pick up the pieces.

Boone says that the film’s production was significantly impacted by the sale of 20th Century Fox to Disney . This was a full year before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic affected both The New Mutants ’ box office performance and audience reception.

“It’s so hard because it was so traumatic,” he told The Direct . “The studio was sold, and we hit a pandemic… The studio was sold during the shooting, and then the pandemic happened when they

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