Charlie Heaton Says 'The New Mutants' Will Come Out in 2020

Charlie Heaton is pretty confident that The New Mutants will debut in theaters next year.

During his appearance at the For the Love of Sci-Fi convention in Manchester, England earlier this month, the 25-year-old actor attributed the delay to the Fox and Disney merger.

“It’s coming out next year, but we filmed it almost two years ago. It’s the release [date] that’s been moved quite a while,” he shared. “If you don’t know, The New Mutants is like an X-Men spinoff. It was a comic book; Bill Sienkiewicz did it and it was an X-Men comic. It’s basically like a separate bunch of mutants.”

Charlie added, “We shot this a while back and it’s been pushed because Fox has now merged with Disney.”

The New Mutants was originally supposed to premiere in 2018.

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