Fox's Marketing for the movie began all the way back in October 2017, before it was pushed back (twice) from its original April 2018 release date for reshoots that, in the end, never happened and, post-Disney deal, shifted once more to April 2020.
Adapting the Marvel comics, director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) co-wrote The New Mutants with Knate Lee (Kidnap), and announced the imminent arrival of a new trailer last month. The official The New Mutants trailer is now online and features much in the way of previously-unseen footage from the dark, horror-flavored superhero film. It also hints heavily at a LGBT romance that's been rumored, but unconfirmed, for much of the last year.
Among other things, The New Mutants trailer shows Rahne Sinclair aka. Wolfsbane (Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams) and Danielle Moonstar aka. Mirage (Another Life costar Blu Hunt) both alone together and, in a different moment, being fairly intimate with one another. It was rumored last March Wolfsbane and Mirage have a romance in The New Mutants only dropped a couple days into 2020.
Boone recently confirmed Disney and Fox are Rahne was ostracized by her strictly religious Scottish family because of her inability to control her powers (which allow her to turn in a wolf), and Danielle was equally marginalized by her Native American community after her abilities (which allow her to create illusions based on people's worst fears) manifested during puberty, before she could learn how to avoid using them on accident. As such, the pair should be quick to form a connection with one another in The New Mutants movie, even before they realize they have shared feelings of attraction.
Furthermore, a Wolfsbane and Mirage romance would allow The New Mutants to become the first Marvel movie to include an LGBT relationship between two superheroes in non-ing roles (Deadpool 2 previously had Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Yukio), marking a long overdue step forward in inclusiveness for the larger Marvel film brand. It wouldn't be the only 2020 Marvel movie to feature a queer romance either, as Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has confirmed November's could be folded into the MCU down the line (if Feige so chooses), which means it would technically be the first film in the franchise to feature not one, but two queer protagonists. In either case, a Wolfsbane-Mirage romance would come as a welcome development.
