Bob McLeod, the creator of “The New Mutants” comic book at Marvel, isn’t so happy with the movie version. McLeod says in a series of posts that the director Josh Boone got his name wrong in the credits and has changed most of his characters,
McLeod says: “I was very excited when I heard they were making a New Mutants movie. I thought making it into a horror movie was perhaps an interesting idea, but not at all how the characters should be introduced to the public at large. But, hey, my characters in a movie!”
He continues: “I was disappointed that Sam isn’t tall and gawky, although I do like Charlie Heaton. But mainly I was very disappointed that Roberto isn’t short and dark-skinned. Yet another example of Hollywood white-washing. There’s just no excuse…
…So basically, #JoshBoone erased everything I contributed to the way the characters look. And now, the movie has come out at last, and apparently they’ve credited someone named Bob Macleod as co-creator…
…They couldn’t even be bothered to check the spelling of my name sometime in the last three years. And that can’t be fixed. That will be on the movie forever. I think I’m done with this movie.”
Disney/Marvel has had a lot of trouble with the film. They’ve moved it around from date to date for the last two years. Now it’s being dumped this weekend with a 23% on Rotten Tomatoes. The good news for McLeod is that the books live on well past the time the movie is forgotten.
