By Ryan Louis Mantilla 

The widely-panned X-Men film will join the others in the Disney canon.

Although the last Fox X-Men film, The New Mutants, received largely negative feedback from both audiences and critics, the Marvel movie is getting a fresh start on Disney+ in the United States, arriving on October 14. It will join other October additions to the streaming service, such as the new Marvel special Werewolf By Night.

The New Mutants is set in the X-Men cinematic universe and follows a group of five teenagers with mutant abilities imprisoned in a secret medical facility run by Dr. Cecilia Reyes (Alice Braga). The five teenage mutants—Magik, Cannonball, Mirage, Wolfsbane, and Sunspot—were all subjected to procedures that were supposed to cure them. However, their recollections quickly become terrifying as they begin to question their stay in the medical institute.

The official logline reads: "20th Century Fox in association with Marvel Entertainment presents “The New Mutants,” an original horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive."

With a 2018 release date in mind, the movie version of the Marvel Comics franchise, New Mutants, began filming in 2017. However, The New Mutants premiered in 2020 due to numerous setbacks, including a round of reshoots, a Disney and 20th Century Fox merging dilemma, and the then-rising COVID-19 cases, which hugely affected the movie industry.

The 90s-horror-inspired X-Men film didn't sit well with fans and has left the X-Men franchise in worse box office condition, grossing just $49 million. And even though the film boasts a set of rising stars, including Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Blu Hunt, Charlie Heaton, and Henry Zaga, The New Mutants only received a 35% critics' score and a 56% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The initial X-Men films have long been respected and loved by fans, but apart from The New Mutants, the last two X-Men films, Dark Phoenix and Apocalypse, were critically lambasted. According to the reports, the X-Men characters will receive a Marvel Cinematic Universe reimagining, with Professor Charles Xavier, played by Patrick Stewart, making an appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. But until then, die-hard X-Men fans will still have to wait until further announcements are released.

Josh Boone directed The New Mutants from a script co-written with Knate Lee. The New Mutants has had one of the most often delayed releases in the recent decade, which only amplified the audiences' expectations of the film. But although it barely received favorable feedback, it's getting a new lease of life through Disney+.