NOT ANOTHER JEAN MOVIE
EVEN IN A CINEMATIC LANDSCAPE WHERE superhero movies regularly retell the same origin stories over and over (here’s looking at you, Spidey) audiences may have an uncanny sense of déjà vu with Dark Phoenix. Hang on, hasn’t this franchise done this story already? Well, yeah, back in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). But there are two good reasons why this all makes sense. First, the X-Men cinematic universe was rebooted into a parallel time in Days Of Future Past (2014). Secondly, and far more importantly to Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg, “I don’t think we actually did the Dark Phoenix story in The Last Stand.”
In this regard he’s in tune with fans. The Dark Phoenix saga in the reduced all that to a B-plot.
