PREVIEW -- The New Mutants | Official Trailer | 20th Century FOX

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.

In Theaters April 3, 2020

Directed by: Josh Boone

Screenplay by: Josh Boone & Knate Lee

Produced by: Simon Kinberg, p.g.a., Karen Rosenfelt, p.g.a., Lauren Shuler Donner

Cast: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga

Without a shadow of a doubt, this is the first thing to have me excited with anticipation from 20th Century Fox's end of the spectrum when it comes to the X-Men property - at least since The Gifted was still airing on Fox. Given Fox's track record following everything X-Men related that's not X-Men: Days of Future Past, Logan, nor Deadpool, I shouldn't get my hopes up, but man, I can't contain my excitement for this.

Please don't fuck this up, Fox. Go out on a good note with this one.

At the end of the trailer, we get to see Illyana Rasputin aka Magik (portrayed by Anna Taylor-Joy brandishing her trademark Soulsword and donning her armor. This makes me hopeful that maybe, just maybe that this character has a chance of being added to the MCU property with the rest of the X-Men, sooner more than later. I'm still glad that they are sticking with the "horror" type theme for this, despite the reshoots following the flop that was X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

From the casting news, I heard that Alice Braga (replacing Rosario Dawson who was originally pegged for the role) will portray Dr. Cecilia Reyes in the film as well. Anyone who has conversed with me about X-Men over the years would know that Cecilia Reyes ranks within my personal top 10-20 favorite X-Men members to join the team. I'm anxious to see how Alice Braga will portray the character in this.