Director Josh Boone confirms same-sex romance in Marvel’s The New Mutants
By Shaun Stacy
The New Mutants director Josh Boone confirms that two of the lead female characters will be involved in a love story that is at the heart of the film.
With just under a month before its premiere, The New Mutants is starting to look like an exciting new take on the superhero genre. Described as part supernatural horror flick and part superhero movie, the film centers on a group of teenage mutants being held in what appears to be a hospital. From the trailers, it’s said that they’re all there to be “cured” of their mutant afflictions. The teens must band together to help each other survive and escape their imprisonment.
The horror element is enough to set this movie apart from its predecessors, but we’ve recently learned it will be the first X-Men film to feature a same-sex relationship. MCU TV already had one lesbian couple in the form of Nico Minoru and Karolina Dean on the recently canceled Runaways on Hulu, but The New Mutants director Josh Boone has confirmed that Rahne Sinclair (Maisie Williams) and Danielle Moonstar (Blu Hunt) will be in a romantic relationship.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Boone stated:
"“[Rahne and Danielle’s love story], it’s sort of the spine and focus of some of the character-driven stuff in the film.”"
The New Mutants, to be released on April 3, is inspired by the Marvel comic book of the same name, which followed a group of young mutants being trained to become the new wave of X-Men. The film seems to draw heavily from the popular “Demon Bear” saga from the ’80s written by celebrated comics scribe Chris Claremont.
In the comics, Dani and Rahne have an empathic, almost telepathic, bond due to their powers, so it makes sense that expressing that bond in reality would look very similar to a love story. Though Williams says the relationship is “not something that is spoken about too much in the film,” so it doesn’t feel too gimmicky.
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