Chris Claremont Thinks X-MEN:DARK PHOENIX Will Give AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR "A Run For Its Money"

Love Claremont. But nah.

Lol

I love you X-Chris, but be careful man.

Nice of you to say Chris, but the evidence of past performance tells a different story. In Kinberg we trust....to frick it up and lie about it after.

To be fair, he just said "Avengers", so he could mean the first one.

That being said, I don't see that happening Claremont. The first Avengers on its own isn't some mindblowingly perfect film, but it was a pop culture phenomenon that issued in and solidified a new era of superhero films. None of the X-Men films, even the best ones, have been able to feel like that. Infinity War on the other hand is just a [frick]ing behemoth of a film that only the DCEU an potentially replicate (if they clean up their act), but Infinity War will be the first of its kind, just like the first Avengers.

Now of course, Dark Phoenix could be a better film than Infinity War, or just be as good of a film as Infinity War, but as an event, Dark Phoenix will mean nothing compared to it.

And really, what is Dark Phoenix apparently going to do that will set it apart from the current landscape? We've seen lots of films about this cast of mutants before. Superheroes in space has been done already (and quite well I think) by Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy. Attempts to ground heroes in philosophy and psychology has been done before with The Dark Knight trilogy and Civil War, and even Man of Steel and Batman v Superman (whether it was done well or not). An attempt at the Phoenix Saga has been done before (and pretty much failed). And so far, every other CBM this year (aside from maybe Ant-Man and the Wasp, but that has it's own unique heist/spy thriller/rom-com angle) looks to be something different and unique. Black Panther as we are hearing tackles themes and issues of race, colonisation and identity, while being inspired by The Godfather/Game of Thrones's drama and the espionage thriller elements of a Bond film. Infinity War is literally 10 years of patience and world-building coming to a head. New Mutants has its horror thing going on. Deadpool 2 will continue its superhero satire. Aquaman might be a little like BP but its underwater world and visual potential will set it aside (if done right), and it apparently tackles issues on the environment, climate change, and sea pollution. What can Dark Phoenix possible do to compete with all of that, not to talk of Infinity War?

Here's the thing, he could be modest or he just doesn't have a good gauge on these comic book films. Walt Simonson, a fantastic writer for Marvel and responsible for some of the best Thor stories came out of Apocalypse and said he enjoyed the movie, completely unprovoked. They're great comic writers, not movie critics. We don't have to take their opinion to hear if we don't want to, or you can if you want. Point is, it's just his opinion, I think he's completely wrong in this instance, but it's just his opinion, and he's obviously entitled to it.

Haha, you’re funny.

No, someone "thinking" something will happen and "hoping" it will happen is not the same thing. The headline just F'ing lied.