DARK PHOENIX Star Tye Sheridan Reveals Whether Marvel Studios Has Talked To The Cast About Returning

DARK PHOENIX Star Tye Sheridan Reveals Whether Marvel Studios Has Talked To The Cast About Returning

Marvel Studios reportedly won't reboot the X-Men franchise for at least five years but will Kevin Feige bring back any existing cast members? Tye Sheridan reveals whether there have been any talks...

By JoshWilding - May 24, 2019 01:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Dark Phoenix
Source: ComicBook.com
X-Men: Apocalypse didn't really give Tye Sheridan much of a chance to show off Cyclops' best qualities (Bryan Singer has never seemed overly interested in using the character as anything more than Jean Grey's love interest) but most fans agree that the actor did a solid job as Scott Summers. 

Unfortunately for him and the rest of the Dark Phoenix cast, Marvel Studios is now planning to reboot the X-Men franchise and that more than likely means they're going to be out of a job. 

During a recent interview, Sheridan confirmed that no one at Disney has reached out to them about what comes next and that might just spell doom for this iteration of the characters. "There weren't any talks with us," he said. "I don't know if there've been an internal conversation."

"I don't know," he continued when asked about whether he believes there's still a future for this version of the X-Men. "I think this franchise has a lot of potential, it always has. I'd love to see it continue in some form, even if there spin-offs and characters do their own movies independently. I think it's definitely something that should be explored."

That seems like wishful thinking at this stage and it's hard to believe Feige bringing anyone other than Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool back (and even those adventures might only be very loosely tied to the MCU).

With any luck, Marvel Studios' plans will start becoming clearer soon...

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Survivor's Simon's Guilt

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"I've lived with the guilt of that for many years," the producer/writer turned director says when asked to reflect on how things played out for the Dark Phoenix Saga when it was adapted in X-Men: The Last Stand. "Somewhere along the way, not because I felt the movie needed it, the A-plot was imposed on the film from the outside."

It sounds like he's passing the buck, but Kinberg went on to talk about how his style of "edgier" filmmaking will change the story. 

"While there are a great many thing in X-Men 3 that I think do work, for me, the tone of that movie wasn't to my taste," he explains. "My taste is an edgier, more intense kind of filmmaking. And I feel we didn't tell an authentic Dark Phoenix story. I'd always, after that film, wanted another chance to tell the story the way I had initially intended."
 

Why Is Simon Kinberg The Right Choice To Helm Dark Phoenix?

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Kinberg's fellow producer Hutch Parker seems confident in Dark Phoenix's chances of success with Kinberg at the helm, even if most fans aren't so sure. "I would have encouraged him to pick something smaller. You don't get put under the same microscope. But this was a pretty great fit for a variety of reasons. He knew the cast inside and out. He the the world inside and out."

As for who convinced Kinberg to take the helm, we have Jennifer Lawrence to thank/blame. "She said, 'You should direct the next movie,'" the director reveals. "I hadn't thought about it before then. But when she said it, I felt like, if the next movie is something I fall in love with as a story, I could think of no better first movie to direct."
 

Making Up For Past Mistakes

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After acknowledging that bringing Jean Grey back in X-Men: Days of Future Past was "my attempt to reverse [X-Men: The Last Stand] to some degree," Kinberg admitted that "I did feel extra pressure to get it right. The pressure of telling what is, for me, the greatest superhero story in comic book history."

Whether or not he'll succeed in doing it right obviously remains to be seen. 
 

It's Not A Faithful Adaptation Of The Comics

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"There are a lot of things in the comics that aren't in the movie, and things in the movie that aren't in the comics," Kinberg admits after revealing that he took a "lot of license" with the source material for Dark Phoenix

He also reveals that we shouldn't expect to see the likes of Lilandra, Queen of the Shi'ar Empire. "I pared it down to make this a more character based, emotional, hopefully relatable story. That's something I feel like we didn't get right in X3, the emotion of being inside Jean's experience. It wasn't really Jean's story. She was the object of that story, not the subject."
 

This Is Jean Grey's Movie

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Kinberg makes it clear that Dark Phoenix is indeed Jean Grey's movie and that put the pressure on Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner. "Sophie is not the biggest movie star in our case, but it is entirely her movie," he confirms. "She's in the most scenes, she has the most lines, she has the most emotional colours to play." That definitely seems like the right approach to telling this story.
 

Why Michael Fassbender And James McAvoy Returned

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"I guess it wasn't a very good movie," Michael Fassbender says when asked to reflect on the failings of X-Men: Apocalypse. "It's hard to make these movies. Sometimes it misfires. That's just the way it goes." As a result, that movie's failings didn't stop him from returning as Magneto. 

As for James McAvoy, he says: "It would have been very hard to turn this film down with Simon directing it. I think we all felt like that, it felt like the right thing to do. The franchise has been very, very, very good to all of us. And there's a little bit of a sense of responsibility to the material and the studio and also to Simon."
 

Is Professor X The Movie's Villain?

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"I always thought there was something interesting about Charles trying to control something that becomes uncontrollable," Kinberg says when asked why he's revisiting the idea of Professor X using his powers to cover up some big moments in Jean's past.

"And given that this movie is intended to be a modern film about an empowered female character, I felt I had to do that and not just touch on what Charles does to her but expose that and even vilify it." That won't go down well with some X-Men fans...
 

Mystique's Death

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Fox spoiled Mystique's demise in the trailer for Dark Phoenix ,and Kinberg has now offered an explanation for why he decided to kill Jennifer Lawrence's character off (but not why it was spoiled so soon).

"I wanted their presence in the movie to have dramatic weight and consequence, which didn't necessarily mean that they died. I started thinking about what the movie is about, which is Jean losing control and, as a result, the X-Men being ripped apart. And killing this character turns people against each other in interesting new ways. Also, if you kill someone that the audience expects is unkillable, they don't know who's going to go next."

So, X-Men: Civil War?
 

Jessica Chastain's Mystery Villain

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There's still no word on who Jessica Chastain is playing in Dark Phoenix, but the actress has shed some confusing light on who - or what - she is. "At first there was this idea that she would be ethereal...like an angel. And open. I'm not wearing make-up, which opens the face, opens my eyes. She has to look otherworldly, yet human."

Here's where things get really weird, though. "You know that stereotype of what happens when you're so afraid that your hair turns white? Something happens to her and it's just a bigger emotion than any of us have felt in our lives. It's a primal fear." In other words, it sounds like she comes face to face with the Phoenix Force at some point.
 

X-Men: The End

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Disney and Marvel Studios will reboot the X-Men franchise after Dark Phoenix, but how does Simon Kinberg feel about that? "I think we've all made our peace with the idea that we may have had our time with these characters," he reveals. "If this is our last, make it count."

It sounds like Kinberg saw the writing on the wall a long time ago, as he went on to talk about bringing this particular chapter to a close. "I approached this in a way as the culmination of this cycle. It's the ultimate X-Men story. I didn't approach it the way I approached some of the other X-Men movies, thinking, 'What's left to tell after this?' I left it all on the field."
 
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Storm unleashes her powers here and, well, it's not a particularly impressive visual is it? This battle pits the X-Men against Jean Grey and we know from the trailers that her abilities don't have any sort of real impact on the hero's Dark Phoenix persona. Perhaps that's why Cyclops looks so shocked!
 
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It's not a spoiler to say that Mystique dies in Dark Phoenix because Fox decided to reveal that in one of the earliest trailers. As a result, don't expect the hero (remember, she's not a villain in this rebooted X-Men Universe) to have a lot of screentime here. 
 
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Magneto's new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is once again made up of C-List characters from the comics, but the most surprising addition is Beast. He's always hated Magneto, but it appears as if Jean Grey killing Mystique has brought them together as they look to put the Phoenix down once and for all.
 
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Is the X-Mansion in ruins here? 

The franchise has often destroyed the team's home, but this could be anywhere. Still, seeing Scott Summers and Professor X together like this is a really cool visual for fans of the comics. 
 
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Magneto has been the lead villain in pretty much every single X-Men movie, so we can probably expect Marvel Studios to give him a break when they reboot the franchise. With any luck, this movie is going to send him out on a high rather than casually killing the sometime hero/sometime villain off. 
 
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Beast is still a werewolf-type character in Dark Phoenix, but Fox has still done a pretty solid job of bringing the character's beastly appearance to life on the big screen. In fact, he looks a lot like the Kelsey Grammer version we saw in X-Men: The Last Stand here.
 
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Based on what we've seen in the trailers, it seems as if this shot of Jean Grey is her mourning her actions after she killed Mystique in the heat of battle due to her Dark Phoenix persona taking over.
 
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Director Simon Kinberg can be seen on set here alongside Sophie Turner's Jean Grey, and while he's been involved with this franchise for a while now, it appears as if his days working on the X-Men are numbered and nearing their end thanks to the Disney/Fox merger.
 
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Are you guys excited for Dark Phoenix? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below. 
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TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 5/24/2019, 1:37 AM
Sorry dude. A new crew is coming in and taking over.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 5/24/2019, 7:13 AM
@TheUnworthyThor - Even Marvel doesn't know what to do with the x-men. For all we know we might get the all PC X-men with all age, gender & race swaps.


Kyos
Kyos - 5/24/2019, 1:38 AM
Any answer that isn't "no" is the wrong answer. Sorry, new cast, but it's time for a new-new cast.
Kyos
Kyos - 5/24/2019, 1:50 AM
Okay, that might've sounded somewhat harsh. I am sorry that these actors (especially the younger ones) will lose their potential big franchise roles. But...
SoBeKing
SoBeKing - 5/24/2019, 1:38 AM
Damn, reading that kinda makes me feel bad for the cast lol. I think once the MCU X-Men are in full swing we'll look back and appreciate (some) of the FoxMen movies more than we think we will. That being said, I can't wait to see the X-Men done properly in the MCU.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 5/24/2019, 9:15 AM
@SobecKing - History always repeats itself. So many discounted Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy after 3's poor reception, yet never realized he made the best films. The hype for the Amazing reboot with Garfield was so anticipated and yet that series is as much a disaster as the DCEU.

I think we can all appreciate every CBM, even if some of them are terrible.
DENNISsystem
DENNISsystem - 5/24/2019, 9:38 AM
@mastakilla39 - have to disagree with you on that one. The raimi movies (first two) had a good overall story, with great supporting cast, but Toby was a wooden, mute Spidey. Alfred Molina, Willem DaFoe and heck, Even J.K. Simmons (ESPECIALLY J.K.Simmons) pushes him into the background with their performances. Despite his pretty good peter portrayal, he was like a bystander in his own movie. Now Switch that around for the Amazing movies. Garfield did a Great Spider-Man, but a very uncharacteristic peter and an overall bad story with no standout supporting roles besides maybe Emma Stone. Now the current MCU Spidey is firing on all cylinders. I think people let nostalgia get to them when it comes to these and the early x-men movies: they were mediocre at best.
sickboy76
sickboy76 - 5/24/2019, 1:44 AM
Apparently Alex shipp has been pitching ideas for a storm movie. 😂
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 5/24/2019, 1:53 AM
Aside from a few of them (and arguably even including those few) they haven’t been doing the characters proper justice with the younger cast saga. The same can be argued for the older cast saga, so I guess we’ll call it even. Jackman is a different story, but he’s been in pretty much every damn movie.
Kumkani
Kumkani - 5/24/2019, 2:04 AM
Sometimes you have a job, and sometimes you don't. Unfortunately that's life. It's a bit of a shame this cast never got to be in a good X-Men film. At least the OG's can say that.
IKidYouNotMan
IKidYouNotMan - 5/24/2019, 2:09 AM
The smart answer is “No, they’re going to do their own thing with it. I’m looking forward to seeing it. I’ve always been a big fan of >insert Marvel series here< hopefully i’ll get to play in their sandbox one day”
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 5/24/2019, 2:21 AM
Cast Charlie Hunnam as Wolverine, throw him in a costume and badabing badaboom you have comic book movie gold.
DiegoMD
DiegoMD - 5/24/2019, 2:29 AM
@WruceBayne - I didn't mind Hugh, but after so long I want a [frick]ing short Wolverine
cerrone6
cerrone6 - 5/24/2019, 3:04 AM
@AndrewHolland - yes give shorter wolverine who can act and be more of the part of Wolverine
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/24/2019, 3:55 AM
Some of them are good actors, but none of them are well cast.

And Feige has proven that he will give good Fox-Marvel actors a chance playing characters they're better suited to.



I wouldn't be surprised to see McAvoy, Lawrence, or Shipp popping up in a Marvel Studios movie in a few years, potentially as pretty major characters.

(And just to preempt the inevitable, I'll just fancast as Fassbender as something boring like a cameo of the Living Tribunal or something. Anything to get him off of people's fancast lists.)
MNLawyer
MNLawyer - 5/24/2019, 4:55 AM
@Spock0Clock - bring in McAvoy as Logan, Fassbender as Doom and Jackman as Kraven just to mess with people
DENNISsystem
DENNISsystem - 5/24/2019, 8:21 AM
@Spock0Clock - John Berenthal as Wolverine
The Rock as Ben Grim
Joe Keery as The Human Torch
Adam Scott as Mr. Fantastic
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the Invisible Woman
Javier Bardeen as Dr. Doom
Cillian Murphy as Cyclops

The Ruins Of Sarkovia becomes New Latveria
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 5/24/2019, 4:18 AM
Please stop asking these guys questions like this
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/24/2019, 4:22 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - True. Since Kinberg said "this was always going to be a conclusion" (or whatever the lie was), the journalists could easily be doing rosy resolution style questions.

"How does it feel to be reaching the end of this journey?" Shit like that.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 5/24/2019, 5:27 AM
I don't see why X-Men: Apocalypse's B plot squad wouldn't be returning.
Forthas
Forthas - 5/24/2019, 6:12 AM
Marvel is making a mistake by doing a total reboot. When they shot the end of Dark Phoenix they should have ended it by sending everyone back in time and using that to reboot the universe...with the same cast as much as possible!
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