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[jon bones]

If kept comic accurate this could be amazing. LOL at all those saying it's automatically terrible I am assuming you all know the new mutants but never read much because that is a defining storyline of the brand.

Which also fills me with hope since it's the first time it seems like someone at fox actually knew the book before getting tapped for the film.

Edit: especially since they would have to change the origin anyway since the comic origin of the New Mutants was that Xavier under brood influence was gathering the kids for their genetic code for implantation of brood eggs.

I've read thousands of X-Comics over the last few decades - Fox couldn't make Days of Future Past, Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix, the Fantastic Four or most of the core X-Men interesting. no way they do New Mutants justice.


I will say The Wolverine & Deadpool are exceptions, maybe because they are smaller scaled.

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Doug isn't in this movie, for those who don't know.

 

[Matty77]

It's automatically terrible because Fox is producing it.

That's different, I am addressing those hating on demon bear.

Wait, the fact that they're basing this off the Demon Bear storyline is fine with me... that means somebody is actually familiar with the comics.

This too, that's deep cuts right there.

 

[MHWilliams]

They're legit doing the Demon Bear arc?

I applaud their courage.

 

[RS4-]

They're legit doing the Demon Bear arc?

I applaud their courage.

If it worked for Apple, it'll work for them!

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Demon Bear Saga is a great story. My only real concern is that the movie will also need to introduce all the characters as well. But this could potentially be really awesome.

Doug isn't in this movie, for those who don't know.

Got to save someone for the sequel.

 

[Matty77]

I've read thousands of X-Comics over the last few decades - Fox couldn't make Days of Future Past, Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix, the Fantastic Four or most of the core X-Men interesting. no way they do New Mutants justice.


I will say The Wolverine & Deadpool are exceptions, maybe because they are smaller scaled.

Not sure about The Wolverine skipped that one, but I think deadpool being good was not size but care. Everyone on that movie were familiar with the character,loved him, hell in Reynolds case lobbied for years to get the movie made.

Most of the fox movies are people who could care less about the comics, are not familiar with them and just do their version based on cursory knowledge of the characters. That's why most fox movies suck.

And doing demon bear makes me think maybe the people behind it same as deadpool actually know and care about the characters.

 

[modernmalady]

The only good part of that movie was when they first got their powers and were horrified.

Yes yes 100% YES

For as bad as that movie was the body horror of stretchy limbs, constantly being on fire, and being turned into a rock monster was actually really memorable.

Hopefully this means that Fox is trying to set up these spin off films in different genres. Deadpool will be comedy films, New Mutants will be sci-fi/trippy, Mcavoy/Fassbender films will be action.

 

[The Kree]

Yes yes 100% YES

For as bad as that movie was the body horror of stretchy limbs, constantly being on fire, and being turned into a rock monster was actually really memorable.

Hopefully this means that Fox is trying to set up these spin off films in different genres. Deadpool will be comedy films, New Mutants will be sci-fi/trippy, Mcavoy/Fassbender films will be action.

They'll all be action/comedies. Producers won't stay far enough away from them to let it be otherwise.

 

[echoshifting]

Demon Bear?? They are doing a Demon Bear movie and they are treating it as horror. Hmm okay this could be really cool. I don't know this Josh Boone fellow so I'm not sure if I should be excited.

 

[hipsterpants]

If they want to do horror maybe they'll be able to pull off Magik/Limbo in some way. I'm totally on board.

 

[TheFlow]

Demon Bear?? They are doing a Demon Bear movie and they are treating it as horror. Hmm okay this could be really cool. I don't know this Josh Boone fellow so I'm not sure if I should be excited.

This is what got me interested. The short video clearly shows they are understand how scary demon bear can be, and all the sketches seem accurate to the comics.

Of course they can easily change it up real quick. I think more of a supernatural/horror film will be worth a watch if only to see demon bear fuck shit up

 

[Adnor]

One of the things that made the Demon Bear work is that he wasn't just a character in a panel, the Demon Bear was part of the page composition a lot of the time and it was amazing thanks to Bill Sienkewicz art.

Still, hope this is good, the Demon Bear arc is great.

Just don't mantain that "Demon Bear transforms two white people into two native-americans" plot point, it's weird.

Edit: One example of something you can do in a panel but can't do in film which would make the Demon Bear hard to work:

 

[Slayven]

Lol nope

 

[Chemo]

Went from not giving a shit about this movie to hyped as fuck. Really hope they do this right.

 

[Trojita]

To display the horror touch this project has, those sources shared an animatic, which can be seen below and depicts a harrowing sequence in which the mutant heroes are confronted by a beast called Demon Bear, "a giant bear with immense strength that draws his power from negative human emotion. The beast is also capable of teleportation and corrupting souls.

This is anime.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Do they fight Demon Llama in the sequel?

 

[Slayven]

How about setting up the characters first?

 

[LordOfLore]

Do they fight Demon Llama in the sequel?

No, probably Techno Demons if they adapt/base it on Inferno.

 

[MC Safety]

This is probably the biggest concern. I also think this is maybe...too high-stakes a narriative to also introduce the audience to all the protagonists.

Demon Bear is a second movie plot, if it translates at all.

If I chose to steal from Claremont's New Mutants, I'd pick the Karma arc where she's kidnapped and possessed by one of Xavier's old enemies Amal Farouk. She's turned into a grotesque fatbody criminal and has to be rescued and redeemed.

 

[Matty77]

How about setting up the characters first?

That's asking too much. This is fox.

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Do they fight Demon Llama in the sequel?

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Demon Bear was cool, plus Warlock. The world could always use more selffriends.

That 20s arts too, hot damn

 

[Slayven]

Warlock's Origin in New mutants involved his dad growing bigger than a star, ripping said star in half , and throwing it at him. And you skip over that for a Demon Bear?

 

[Matty77]

Warlock Origin in New mutants involved his dead growing bigger than a star, ripping said star in half a, and throwing it at him. And you skip over that for a Demon Bear?

Magus and the technovirus would be cooler, and I am not saying I have faith in fox. It just makes me think someone might know the material. My fear was their view of new mutants would begin with Leifeld.

 

[DustyVonEric]

Early New Mutants (and their covers) were legit.

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

Wait, the fact that they're basing this off the Demon Bear storyline is fine with me... that means somebody is actually familiar with the comics.

Yeah, this was the best era of these characters.

 

[Nudull]

The last time I was sold on the promise of a horror-y superhero film from Fox was with Josh Trank and Fant4stic. Yeah.

 

[Killer Queen]

I was excited based on premise and that died when I saw the test footage
This sounds even worse.

 

[freenudemacusers]

demon bear can't be a worse on-screen villain than anything the mcu has thrown at us.

 

[Violet_0]

pff right, like they could ever produce another a X-Men movie as horrifying as X3

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Legion's intro would be a cool flick too.

Imagine Sienkiewicz posters tho

 

[unpopularblargh]

pff right, like they could ever produce another a X-Men movie as horrifying as X3

Apocalypse came close. I have hope for this though.

 

[Frozenprince]

They're legit doing the Demon Bear arc?

I applaud their courage.

It's gonna take some Oscar caliber cinematography to sell that shit as scary.

Hope it works, don't have confidence, but hope it works.

 

[Shig]

... Demon Bear?

A literal angry bear who wants to indisciminately kill people for no particular reason?

Sounds like it should fit right in with most Marvel movie villains' motivations and characterization.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

demon bear can't be a worse on-screen villain than anything the mcu has thrown at us.

How dare you say that about the Iron Monger, and whoever the villain of Thor: The Dark World was.

 

[Hades Hotgun]

It is nice to see that after Deadpool, they are at least looking at the comics for some level of inspiration with these films.


Even the Logan film seems to be taking some elements from the comics. Not so much Old Man Logan, thankfully, but the end of the outback X-Men, with a down and out Wolverine being pursued by Pierce and the Reavers.

As for New Mutants, this Stranger Things inspiration sounds better than the "Young Adult" angle I was reading about before. Demon Bear could be great or terrible, but it seems unlikely that it will be mediocre like so many of the "good" X-Men movies before it.