There's a very good chance X-Men: Dark Phoenix won't matter. If the deal between Disney and 21st Century Fox happens (and all the signs are pointing to a merger taking place within the next week or so), the X-Men will join the Marvel Cinematic Universe and this instalment from director Simon Kinberg will never receive any sort of sequel as the franchise will be rebooted sooner rather than later.
We'll have to wait and see but what we do know is that this movie will be Kinberg's second crack at The Dark Phoenix Saga after the filmmaker dropped the ball with the storyline in X-Men: The Last Stand.
Unfortunately, it looks like he's repeating the same old mistakes. Rather than making the Phoenix some sort of powerful, cosmic entity, Jean having to use her powers will trigger a transformation within her which turns her to the dark side. Sound familiar? It should because pretty much the exact same thing happened back in 2006. "Jean absorbs those solar flares and then hurls them back out into space. That’s what triggers, awakens, creates this Phoenix force and voice inside her. What appears to the world to be another heroic victory by the X-Men in saving stranded people in space we realize is the the thing that begins the unraveling of Jean and the unraveling of secrets Charles told her."
Kinberg went on to say that he's excited to take the X-Men into outer space but seemingly made it clear that the sequence below is as much as we're getting because we won't be heading to another galaxy a la Star Wars. What do you think about these new details? Share your thoughts below.
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