9 Recent Movies Sent Out To Die

9. New Mutants

New Mutants was the last film 20th Century Fox produced that used characters the studio acquired from Marvel in the 1990s, and it almost didn't find a release. The film was stuck in development hell for a while, having begun production in 2015, but languishing until it was finally dropped in 2020.

The movie was originally pitched as a trilogy, and it might have gone that way had its production stayed on track. Unfortunately, delays pushed the release from April 2018 to March 2020, and ultimately, August of that same year, and when it finally saw the light of day, it bombed.

The main reason the movie fell flat was Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox. Disney already had a plan in place for the MCU, but by the time the ink was finally dry on the acquisition contract, New Mutants was mostly in the can, waiting for reshoots.

Disney likely knew the movie wasn't up to the standards of a Marvel Studios project, but it released it to a limited number of theaters in August 2020 anyway after extensive delays. The movie was widely panned by critics, making it appear as if Disney wanted to get it out and over with, so it could move on to other projects.