‘New Mutants’ trailer sees Maisie Williams in first post-’Game of Thrones’ role

Goodbye, Arya Stark. Hello, Wolfsbane.

A new trailer for “The New Mutants� features “Game of Thrones� fan favorite Maisie Williams in her first role since the long-running fantasy epic concluded in May. The preview for the much-anticipated X-Men installment, released Monday, introduces Williams’ Rahne Sinclair, one of several mutant children admitted to a healing center, of sorts.

“I was 13,� Rahne, a.k.a. Wolfsbane, says, recalling the first time she discovered her powers. “I thought it was a dream. I lost control.�

With “New Mutants,� the “Game of Thrones� alum joins her small-screen sister, Sophie Turner, in the X-Men franchise. Turner, who reigned as Queen in the North Sansa Stark in the HBO series, recently reprised her own Marvel character as the heroine of 2019’s “Dark Phoenix.�

Also featured alongside Williams in the forthcoming comic adaptation are “Stranger Things� ensemble member Charlie Heaton as Cannonball, “Glass� actress Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik and relative newcomers Blu Hunt as Mirage and Henry Zaga as Sunspot, rounding out the film’s monstrous titular bunch.

Together, the group possesses a wide range of supernatural abilities, including sorcery (Magik), shapeshifting (Wolfsbane), flight (Cannonball), telepathy (Mirage), solar energy (Sunspot) and more.

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The official trailer, which debuted more than two years after the first teaser for the movie came out in October 2017, sees the squad of anti-heroes team up to protect themselves from the real villains who feel threatened by their skills and want them destroyed.

“This isn’t a hospital,� Taylor-Joy’s Illyana Rasputin warns her new friends. “It’s a cage.�

20th Century Fox’s “The New Mutants,� directed by Josh Boone, hits theaters April 3.