New Mutants Is Still Opening In Two Weeks Really Of Course It Is Why Wouldn T It

‘New Mutants’ Is Still Opening In Two Weeks. Really. Of Course It Is. Why Wouldn’t It?

By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 11, 2020 1:30 pm EST

Oh, The New Mutants. Where do we even begin with you? The X-Men spin-off has become something of a punchline – a movie shuffled around so many times that it almost seems like a joke. The film was set to open in April 2018 only to then be delayed to February 2019. It was delayed again to August 2019 before being pushed once more, this time to April 2020.

With all that in mind, Disney is still swearing up and down that New Mutants will keep its August 28 theatrical date. Per Variety, the House of Mouse sent out a “lengthy email” to movie theaters telling them they can start selling New Mutants the morning of August 18. A theater insider even wrote to Variety: “It’s for sure opening August 28th!”

So…will it? Currently, 1,309 of the 6,021 movie theaters in the United States are open, so I suppose New Mutants will be able to play at those select locations. But I continue to have serious doubts, primarily because the odds of the coronavirus miraculously going away in two weeks is highly unlikely, no matter what our mutant carnival huckster POTUS says.