Film New Mutants was to have its premiere April 13, 2018 year. However, it was postponed several times. Ultimately, the picture is expected to hit theaters on August 26, 2020. So it's time to meet our New Mutants!
Sam Guthrie/Cannonball
Samuel Guthrie aka. Cannonball, comes from Cumberland, Kentucky, USA. He is the eldest son of Thomas and Lucinda. Already at the age of eleven, he met representatives of the Deviant race, which in turn is the creation of the Celestials. However, he does not remember anything about these events, because his memories were erased by a mutant called Sledge. He himself was a great student who even received a college scholarship, but dropped out of his studies when his father suddenly died. As a 16-year-old, he joined the mine, feeling that his family’s support was on his shoulders. Once, when he was underground, there was a crash and the tunnel the boy was in began to collapse. It was then that Samuel’s power was revealed. His lower body, as it were, exploded, throwing him upwards like a cannonball. In this way, he saved his life, and one of the miners he had caught and taken with him. This event did not escape the attention of Donald Pierce, who recruited the young man to the Hellfire Club and put him up to fight against Xavier and his new students. He even had the chance to kill a few opponents, but he refused to do what infuriated Pierce, but also caught Professor X’s attention. He managed to get Guthrie to switch sides and was drafted into the New Mutants. He even led this group for a time; anyway, he was the oldest in it. However, he was ashamed of the fact that, compared to others, he was the worst at mastering his powers. During numerous adventures he visited Asgard, was a member of the X-Factor and X-Force, and fought against the Shi’Ar Empire and the Kingpin mafia. In the so-called meanwhile he was even killed by Sauron and then rose again.
Samuel Guthrie came from a family with many children. He had three brothers and five sisters. Most of them were also mutants. There have even been theories that members of this family are not human but belong to the Externali race, though this has not been confirmed in any way.
Finally, let’s tackle the Cannonball powers. As already mentioned, it could launch like a projectile. Thanks to the thermochemical energy that is generated when his lower body “explodes”, Sam can fly at tremendous speed. The resulting force field makes him almost invulnerable. By the way, he can absorb kinetic energy, which he then uses to strengthen his blows.
The New Mutants Sam Guthrie Heaton plays Charlie, whose perfectly fans of the series know Stranger Things – that’s what he plays there in the form of Jonathan Byers.
