New mutants, assemble!
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Trailer opens with a shot of Dani Moonstar (Blu Hunt) rubbing a drop of blood between her fingers as Dr. Cecilia Reyes (Alice Braga) asks in a voiceover about the last thing she remembers. We get a nightmarish flashback to Dani and a man (likely her father) running away from a fire. Dani wakes up in a psychiatric hospital, hand-cuffed to her bed, while Dr. Reyes tells her the reason she survived is because she’s “a very uncommon girl” —a mutant, in fact. And she’s not the only one. Reyes introduces her to a group of young mutants, all part of a therapeutic support group in the hospital. Each of them is haunted by strange nightmares and visions.
Rahne (Game of Thrones‘Maisie Williams), aka Wolfsbane, can turn into a wolf, which clashes mightily with her religious beliefs. Sam (Stranger Things‘Charlie Heaton), aka Cannonball, is invulnerable when he propels himself into the air. Roberto (Henry Zaga), aka Sunspot, has the ability to manipulate solar energy, and his inability to control that power seems to have led to the demise of his girlfriend. Illyana (Anya Taylor-Joy), aka Magik, can teleport and is sister to X-Man Colossus. She’s also known in the comics for her sword, which makes a brief appearance here, emerging from her arm. As for Dani, aka Mirage, she has the ” (power to createillusions drawn from the fears and desires of a person’s mind. “
Dani’s power is of keen interest to Dr. Reyes, who explains they must explore Dani’s power in order to help her get better. But as Illyana tells her, “This isn’t a hospital — it’s a cage.” When Dani “sees” something during the tests that Dr. Reyes likely didn’t want her to see, she concludes that none of them are in the hospital to get better. “This place takes your greatest fear and makes you live through it,” we hear Reyes say. “Until it kills you.” And the mutants resolve to combine their powers to escape.
Filmmaker Boone has vacillated in interviews over the years about whether or not Demon Bear will actually appear inThe New Mutants
, but the character is listed among the cast. We see a shot of Dani in the trailer wearing a bear-shaped pendant, and we possibly catch a glimpse of Demon Bear toward the end. So we’ll go out on a limb and predict that this will be the primary antagonist for the film. There’s also a rumored post-credits scene featuring Antonio Banderas as an as-yet-unnamed villain, setting things up for a potential sequel shouldThe New Mutantshit it big at the box office.
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