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Inside the long and tortured sacrifice of ‘The New Mutants’

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pandemic. Up until a month ago, there were rumors that its new owner, Disney, would quietly banish the fraught flick to Disney+ or Hulu like junk to a yard sale.Instead it’s one of the first major releases to hit reopened brick-and-mortar theaters — the ideal sacrificial lamb to test out the struggling movie business’ appeal during the coronavirus crisis.

But how did a new chapter in a multibillion dollar franchise end up collecting dust on a shelf for years?And why have some media outlets called it “cursed”?“The New Mutants” was greenlighted in May 2015, during a very different moment. “X-Men: Days of Future Past” had raked in a tidy $746 million in 2014, and Fox, which owned the screen rights to Marvel’s “X-Men,” reveled in creative.

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