It Sounds Like X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Sets The Stage For A "Dark Phoenix Saga" Reboot
X-Men: The Last Stand got a lot wrong, but perhaps its most unforgivable crime was the fact that it completely f***ed up the Dark Phoenix Saga! However, based on comments from Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg, it sounds like plans are being put in place to do that story justice...
X-Men: Apocalypse is going to introduce a lot of new characters and plot threads to the X-Men Universe, and it sounds like the Dark Phoenix Saga could be among them. One of the most celebrated comic book arcs of all-time, X2: X-Men United set the stage for that story to be adaptated, only for X-Men: The Last Stand to spectacularly drop the ball a few years later.
Still, with Sophie Turner now playing a young Jean Grey, Fox has a chance to make things write, as does scribe Simon Kinberg. "I think everything that hasn't been told from First Class and Days of Future Past is up for grabs going forward, so it would absolutely be a story we could tell in a different way," he told IGN when asked about the possibility of rebooting the story. "We definitely explore how powerful [Jean Grey] is in this movie, and that can be something that is empowering and something that is dangerous." It definitely sounds like they're considering this then!
Bryan Singer meanwhile elaborated on that by mentioning that he would "possibly" be interested in redoing "the full Phoenix story" as he called it, and indicated that we'll get some hints about that in X-Men: Apocalypse as "the idea of that brewing within her" and we "may find a piece of that in this movie." What do you guys think about these comments? Share your thoughts below.
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