During an interview with Screen Rant, Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg commented on having a sense of how the film connects to ending of X-Men: Days of Future Past.
After serving as a producer of the X-Men films since First Class, Simon Kinberg will make his feature film directorial debut with Dark Phoenix, the franchise’s second attempt at adapting the comic book saga of the same name. Of course, Dark Phoenix is set to conclude the current iteration of the X-Men before Marvel Studios’ presumably reboots the film series and Simon Kinberg revealed he does have a sense of how the upcoming film will connect to ending of Days of Future Past, which marked the last time audiences saw many of the older versions of the characters:
“I have some sense of it, yes, because I always feel as though I’m sort of responsible for the architecture of this and making sure that it all lines up. So I do have some sense of it, but I really did imagine this movie, in truth, as the culmination of this cycle of X-Men films and so I wasn’t really thinking past this film other than wanting to make sure that the logic was all sound.”
Simon Kinberg also stated the ending of Days of Future Past was crafted in part to grant him to change to retell the Dark Phoenix saga after the critically lambasted effort in X-Men: The Last Stand:
“I actually would say that the Dark Phoenix idea was was set up in the end of Days of Future Past. In changing the timeline of Days of Future Past, part of the reason I did that was I wanted a chance to tell the Dark Phoenix story in a more fulsome way where it’s really like the full Dark Phoenix story and focuses on Jean’s story different than X-Men: The Last Stand.”
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This is the story of one of the X-Men’s most beloved characters, Jean Grey, as she evolves into the iconic DARK PHOENIX. During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all. Wrestling with this increasingly unstable power as well as her own personal demons, Jean spirals out of control, tearing the X-Men family apart and threatening to destroy the very fabric of our planet. The film is the most intense and emotional X-Men movie ever made. It is the culmination of 20 years of X-Men movies, as the family of mutants that we’ve come to know and love must face their most devastating enemy yet — one of their own.
Written and directed by Simon Kinberg, Dark Phoenix stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters, and Jessica Chastain.
Dark Phoenix will be released in theaters on June 7, 2019.
Source: Screen Rant
