The release lasted for three years, and the file was changed several times during the period. The "worst in history" Marvel movie "The New Mutants" has finally released resources in the mainland recently.
As the last film of the "X-Men series", it was born bumpy , and it was released normally, and the audience was already sweating.
Today Pi Ge will take everyone to talk about this movie-
01.
Let's look at the story first
The film is about five newborn mutants, Moonstar (Bru Hunter), Wolf Venom (Maisie Williams), Mystery (Anya Taylor-Joy), Sunspot (Henry Zager) and Cannon (Charlie Heaton) growing up in a mysterious school of mutants.
Unlike Professor X's "Xavier School for Gifted Teens", this school is not very large, with only five students named Yue Xing, and only Cecilia Reyes (Alice) as the teacher and leader of the school. Braga played) a doctor.
The movie begins with the dramatic family changes that Moon Star encounters. Moon Star, formerly known as Danielle Moonstar, was born in the Native American Cheyenne. images from other people's minds. But the young Yuexing didn't know about her own ability. In her sleep, she created a demon bear.
The Devil Bear destroys Moonstar's entire community, and Moonstar's father takes her to escape from the house where she lives. Unfortunately, her father is attacked and killed along the way.
Yuexing passed out in the forest, but woke up to find that he was in a closed room with his right hand chained.
Just when Yuexing was in a panic, Dr. Reyes appeared, and she made a brief self-introduction, so that Yuexing quickly knew that she was in a school of mutants.
Although this school is small in scale, it is "complete with five internal organs". It isolates mutants from normal humans and teaches mutants how to control their own superpowers in order to eventually return to society.
Moonstar soon discovers that the mutant school has only Dr. Reyes as a faculty member, and that although many doors are locked, most places are free to enter and exit.
So she quickly escaped from the school and ran to the nearest highway, trying to escape from the school. At this time, she realized that Dr. Reyes' superpower was to create a protective shield, and the school had been covered.
Outsiders cannot enter the area where the school is located through the protective shield, and the students in the school cannot get out. This mutant school is actually a cage for imprisoning mutants.
In addition to Yuexing, the imprisoned students also include Langtou, Mike, Sunspot, and Cannon. Among them, Langdu and Yuexing have the best relationship.
Wolf Venom's original name is Ryan Sinclair. She looks weak, but she is a mutant who can turn into a wolf.
After first discovering her superpowers, she was treated as an incarnation of the devil by her father, a priest, and was branded with a "W" scar and nearly burned to death. Although the wolf poison finally killed her father, the shadow of childhood became her lingering nightmare.
The mutants in the school not only bear the psychological trauma of Wolf Venom, but everyone else also bears unforgettable memories.
Myster's real name is Ilyana Rasputin. She can communicate with the world of hell, but she has been shadowed by the smiling faces of hell who have attacked her.
Cannon, whose real name is Sam Guthrie, was a miner who could release thermochemical energy and fly with it, but because of his uncontrollable ability, he had caused a mine accident and killed his father.
Therefore, his nightmare is that the scene of the mine disaster will appear from time to time, and it is difficult to face the father who has been killed.
Sunspot's real name is Roberto da Costa, his superpower is somewhat similar to the Human Torch Jonathan Stone, but he can absorb and release the energy of sunspots.
Sunspot was originally a rich second generation, and his superpowers exploded and burned his girlfriend on a date, which also became his painful experience.
After the arrival of the moon star, strange things began to happen in the school. The students all saw the terrifying demons in their hearts appearing in front of them, and panic shrouded the campus.
Dr. Reyes has been closely monitoring the movements of the five students, and she found that the hallucinations in the school were all due to the superpowers of Moonstar.
Dr. Reyes claimed to the students that the mutant school was affiliated with the X-Men, but in fact it was a secret training base under the name of the Essex company for training mutant agents.
When Dr. Reyes reported the situation of Yuexing to the company, the answer was that the superpowers on Yuexing could not be controlled and she had to be destroyed.
So Dr. Reyes poisoned Yuexing, but fortunately, the wolf poison appeared in time, which severely injured Dr. Reyes and rescued Yuexing.
The 5 mutant students are outraged to learn that Dr. Reyes attempted to kill Moonstar, and they unite to fight against Dr. Reyes, but their superpowers cannot shake the trained doctor, and she is shielded by her shield instead. .
In an emergency, Yuexing released a demon bear and killed Dr. Reyes. The demon bear was originally Yuexing's nightmare. She also found a way to overcome the nightmare and finally subdued the demon bear.
With the death of Dr. Reyes, the shield that enveloped the school of mutants disappeared, and the students were finally freed.
The film's last secret guest, moon star, wolf poison, sunspot and cannon left the mutant school at a leisurely pace, which also means that they have truly matured and started a new life.
02.
Those "Easter Eggs" in the Movie
"The New Mutants" was originally the beginning of a new X-Men series, but it ended when Fox was acquired by Disney and the X-Men copyrights returned to Marvel.
Although the end of the film does not set up easter eggs in accordance with the conventions of Marvel movies, there are still many easter eggs in the movie.
For example, the Essex company actually appeared as early as 2016 in the end credits of "X-Men: Apocalypse". In the X-Men series, it is set as the founder of Mr. Sinister Nathaniel Essex. company.
Mr. Sinister is also a classic villain in the Marvel universe, and he is a radical genetics researcher.
Mister Sinister has met the apocalypse and has been genetically altered to have telekinesis, telepathy, and undeath, which has allowed him to be active from Victorian England to the present day.
Legend has it that Mr. Sinister was originally going to appear in "Wolverine 3" to become the opponent of Wolverine Logan. Along with this classic story, there is the long-lost classic yellow battle suit.
But Fox's plans never kept up with changes, and this promising script was eventually replaced by the script for the twilight Wolverine movie "Wolverine: The Last Stand," which we now see.
Mysterious guest Ilyana Rasputin is actually the younger sister of the big steel man in the movie "Deadpool". She carries a purple dragon called Lockheed, which was originally the phantom cat in the "X-Men" series. Katie Pride's pet.
Mi Ke is also a good friend of Phantom Cat. If there is a sequel, the story of the two should still unfold.
But with the return of the X-Men's copyright to Marvel, and the mutants joining the MCU Marvel Cinematic Universe, the story line that was originally planned as a reboot came to an abrupt end.
03.
After 4 shifts, the failure was not just because the director chose the wrong actor
The film was first announced in April 2017 and scheduled to be released on April 13, 2018. Later, due to re-editing, it was announced in January 2018 that it was changed to February 22, 2019.
At this time, to catch up with Disney's $71.3 billion acquisition plan, Fox announced in March that the release schedule was postponed to August 2, 2019.
However, after Disney took over, "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" did not respond well when it was released on June 7, 2019. Disney executives were not assured of the quality of "The New Mutants", and they considered re-editing, and the release date was also changed. Delay again.
Unexpectedly, in the spring of 2020, there will be another global film industry crisis, and the release of "The New Mutants" has become uncertain again.
At this time, Disney also lost patience with the film. After 4 changes, it was finally determined to be released on August 28. The result was only 45.12 million US dollars at the box office. Compared with the production cost of 67 million US dollars, excluding distribution and theaters Dividends, etc., converted into RMB, the producer suffered a huge loss of more than 200 million yuan.
Although the relatively low-cost "New Mutants" did not lose as badly as the $200 million large-scale "Dark Phoenix", the reputation was not as good as the latter.
Unlike "Dark Phoenix", which didn't see the quality of the movie until after it was released, "The New Mutants" was generally not well-received before it was released, which has a lot to do with the multiple revisions of the movie.
Pigo believes that there are many fatal problems in the movie, from casting to story, to the grasp of scale.
First of all, in terms of casting, the three female characters of Yuexing, Langdu and Mike in the movie are the central characters of the whole story, and Yuexing is obviously the protagonist of the movie.
In terms of casting, Maisie Williams and Anya Taylor-Joy play the supporting female roles of Wolf Venom and Whisper.
Maisie Williams is affectionately called "Er Ya" by our mainland fans. She is loved by mainland audiences because of her participation in the "Game of Thrones" TV series.
Anya Taylor-Joy is an outstanding representative of actors born in the 1990s. Her roles in "The Witch", "Emma" and "Split" are all rare and good movies.
However, these two actresses with acting experience only played supporting roles in the film, and the protagonist Yuexing was given to the newcomer Blue Hunt.
It's not that there's anything wrong with promoting new actors, but Blue Hunt's acting skills are not worthy of this role. Almost all audiences who have seen the movie can see that her performance is blunt and she can't control this complex character at all. .
The problem with the story is even more prominent. First of all, the setting of the story is a little incomprehensible. In addition to the small number of students (only 5 people) in the mutant school, there is only Dr. Reyes on the teaching staff.
And it is said that the nearest town is 20 miles away. In addition to being responsible for school management, security, and teaching, does Dr. Reyes also serve as a cafeteria aunt?
This "minimalist" role arrangement may be explained by saving production costs, but it is so stingy that it is rare to even invite a few group actors.
In terms of the style of the movie, the main creator intentionally adds horror elements, and works hard to show the nightmares of the protagonists, which is a bit like the mode of "The Clown's Horror".
However, the director's technique is not clever, and is limited by the scale, the effect presented is not satisfactory, but drags down the rhythm of the film.
Although the length of the film is only 94 minutes, the first more than an hour makes people sleepy, even the most bearable Pigo can't bear the slow-moving plot of the TV series.
Mi Ke is the only outstanding character in the movie. The PK between her and the demon bear is also the only action scene in the film. Mi Ke's magical soul blade has also been restored.
But this fight scene was only a flash in the pan. With the "awakening" of Yuexing's superpower, the destructive demon bear was finally tamed by her.
This old-fashioned and underwhelming ending also led to a complete collapse of the audience's perception of the film, which is why the online ratings were so low. Some people also think that some of the scenes in the movie have been deleted, and the original appearance cannot be presented as one of the reasons for the failure, but even adding a little more horror elements will not make up for the flaws in the plot. These are the problems of the director's ability.
Fox's "X-Men" series began in 2000 and is the leader of the new century's superhero movies.
Affected by it, Sony launched "Spider-Man" in 2002, and Marvel's "Iron Man" is already 8 years later.
However, around 2016, the series began to show an obvious decline, and the word-of-mouth decline of "X-Men: Apocalypse" was the beginning of the turn from prosperity to decline.
The lack of a long-term plan for the development of the series, and the excessive intervention of Fox executives are the reasons for the failure.
Fortunately, the X-Men copyright has now returned to Marvel, and the future series is still full of expectations...
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