Dark Phoenix X-Men: Dark Phoenix News and Speculation Thread - - - - - - Part 15

[SumT]

Best Director award coming.

 

[GuestStar2004]

"I love the fashion of it, I love the colors." Shipp revealed. "When we first started Apocalypse, it was like walking onto a comic book. You felt like you were walking into a comic book, and what I love about Dark Phoenix is that, it is way more gritty. I think it affects you in a way more visceral way because it's not a comic vibe. It's very real, it's very raw, and it was scary at times. It's scary to think that someone you love is losing their mind."

“I think it’s the classic X-Men: First Class tone, where there’s a bit of humor thrown in there, but it’s much darker than the previous one, Apocalypse," Evan Peters, who plays Quicksilver, said in an interview last year. "Apocalypse was the ‘80s, so there was a lot of room for goofy stuff in there. This one is a much more serious film about the internal struggle of Phoenix and Jean, so it’s a dramatic film. There’s nothing very comedic about it, other than the few moments that are in there. I think it’s gonna be a powerful one. It’s Dark Phoenix. I think it’s gonna be darker than we’re used to. It’s gonna be a change, but it’s gonna be fun for everybody."

“This is pretty different than the third movie,” producer Hutch Parker explained to ComicBook.com. “I mean the decision here, it was really Simon [Kinberg]’s decision was to tell the Dark Phoenix story but really tell it as Jean's story. So that was first and foremost. So it's a much more thorough investigation of that saga of the story at that heart of the saga and much truer to Jean as a character. I think you're right that one of the challenges was how do we balance what is in the comics in the galactic and intergalactic nature of that storyline with wanting to stay more Earth centric. And you know, we obviously made the decision to include some of that, but to keep it rooted in and around the characters we've come to know and love within the X-Men.”

Alexandra Shipp explains that Dark Phoenix is "beautiful" because it allowed her character to deal with Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) in the most poignant of ways.

"I think what was beautiful about Dark Phoenix was, I got to have an opinion about the X-Men," Shipp says of the upcoming film. "It wasn't a biased opinion, Apocalypse told me that you guys were jerks. It's an actually educated opinion, and she was not only able to have an opinion, but she has a lot of sway in Dark Phoenix because she is more of a matriarch than she was, say, when she was in Apocalypse."

"It's 10 years later, and so she's able to be a part of that conversation in a really valid and beautiful way," she continues. "I loved that. When Jean starts to lose her mind and go into that Dark Phoenix dark hole, it's really beautiful to see how Storm reacts, and how she tries to pull her from it or protect her from it."

Speaking to ComicBook.com at WonderCon, Alexandra Shipp — the actor behind the younger Ororo Munroe — Dark Phoenix does not end in the traditional sense.

"Not at all. Not at all," Shipp says after being asked if Dark Phoenix feels like the end to a 15-year-old franchise. "I think that the way that we did it was that it was open-ended because this is Marvel we're talking about. You can be dead one day and back the next, honey."

"I am not afraid of this franchise when it comes to something like that. The world is ever-growing, ever-changing, ever-evolving. What's beautiful about these characters, is that they grow with it."

 

[Frankeh]

Psychological thriller? I thought this was a straight drama? LOL.

 

[Ordet]

Fox has never choose her due to her ig numbers.
And nobody has said Kinberg is Hitchcock

Fake news, meaning manipulated...
You look even more like anti-vax and co. everything to destroy this movie.

 

[SumT]

Psychological thriller? I thought this was a straight drama? LOL.

Kinberg and Parker have some meetings twice a month or so, where they decide if to change their Slogan for the press or not, and maybe they saw the "grounded drama like Logan" wasnt clicking with readers online, so they decided to namedrop Hitchcock now

Maybe they should have called Mangold to give Kinberg some script and directing lessons before even starting the DP script.

 

[GuestStar2004]

Tye Sheridan plays Cyclops in Dark Phoenix and Sophie Turner plays Jean. They spoke to ComicBook.com at WonderCon about how that storied romance factors into the next X-Men movie.

“I think it's such a cool part of the story, and a big part of who they are and then why they do the things that they do,” Sheridan says. “Her love for Scott is one of the main reasons why it's such an internal struggle for her, because embracing Phoenix, which kind of means losing Scott. It's a very integral part of who she is.”

“Yeah, I know. I mean,” Turner adds. “I think we all love a bit of romance. It's nice to see it in a film like this. I think, and especially like in this movie, I think that what's happening with Jean is, you know, people will relate to on many different levels. I think we all talked about addiction, and how we wanted to use that as a reference for when someone's addicted to a drug or alcohol or whatever. The substances, what it does to the people around them that they love, and that love them. There's kind of this interesting parallel between that and what's going on in this movie. Although, she's you know addicted to power. It's really interesting how love comes to play and really makes that tension much, much stronger. That tug-of-war much more complicated.”

Speaking to ComicBook.com at WonderCon, Kinberg revealed what he considers to be the essential elements of Dark Phoenix.

“What I love about the original comic is so many things, not all of which I felt like were right necessarily for the movie, but what I love when they brought to the film was the notion of Jean being a character who is inhabited by a force that she can’t control and that force being cosmic,” Kinberg says. “And that that her struggle with that, her dilemma, her internal dilemma creates a fissure within the X-Men, this family of the X-Men as to whether they believe she can be helped or whether they believe that actually the world needs helping and so they need to stop her.

“And all of that to me was the core emotional ideas of the original comic and what was most important was bringing the core emotional ideas to this movie and obviously it being interstellar and having aliens and doing a lot of the things we’ve never done in any X-Men movie before including [X-Men: The Last Stand],” he continues. “And I think that I did, but it’s distinct from the comic in that it’s much more of a space opera and this has space elements in it where it has aliens in it, it has space action sequences, but this is a more grounded, more intimate story than the original comic. And so that is probably the biggest difference is just the tone of it is more character based and intimate than the original."

 

[Frankeh]

This is what Sophie Turner admitted and I quote:

“I auditioned for a project and it was between me and another girl who is a far better actress than I am, far better, but I had the followers, so I got the job. It’s not right, but it is part of the movie industry now.”

She didn't say what it was for, though.

 

[sleekstereo]

This is what Sophie Turner admitted and I quote:

She didn't say what it was for, though.

Sorcha Ronan was up for the role of Jean as well. She was the most talented actress out of who auditioned.

 

[Ordet]

This is what Sophie Turner admitted and I quote:

She didn't say what it was for, though.

It's for GoT.
Take less of 1 minute to search it in Google

 

[Ordet]

Sorcha Ronan was up for the role of Jean as well. She was the most talented actress out of who auditioned.

Ronan is, without doubt, better than Turner.

 

[SumT]

she's clearly talking about a movie. She said that in 2015, around X-MEn apocalypse. how on earth would she mean "I was signed for GOT because of my followers" lol. She means a movie, once she was popular because of GoT.

 

[Frankeh]

It's for GoT.
Take less of 1 minute to search it in Google

That is straight from the actress' mouth. She never said it was for GoT.

Takes less than 1 minute to search it in Google.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

X-Men: Dark Phoenix WonderCon Footage - 10 Reactions You Need To See

Umm, eww. Two things:

1. It’s WhatCulture.
2. It treats Jeremy Conrad’s opinions as if they’re valid.

 

[Erik Lensherr]

From CinemaCon (starts tomorrow)

 

[carpenter82]

From CinemaCon (starts tomorrow)

I was at AMC all day yesterday. Was disappointed that they hadn't set this up yet.
Very curious to see what the IMAX poster will be.

 

[Ordet]

That is straight from the actress' mouth. She never said it was for GoT.

Takes less than 1 minute to search it in Google.

Sorry. That's was fault. I misunderstandig an article about her Stark's role

You're right, (even she dosn't speak about X-Men)

 

[carpenter82]

 

[Ordet]

she's clearly talking about a movie. She said that in 2015, around X-MEn apocalypse. how on earth would she mean "I was signed for GOT because of my followers" lol. She means a movie, once she was popular because of GoT.

Yes, my fault. Sorry.

 

[Ordet]

From CinemaCon (starts tomorrow)

This is amazing.

But i have the same issue that i have with the Claremont/Byrne story.
I don't like Dark Phoenix's costume.

In comics It was too like a normal superhero stuff, and in this movie (like in X3...) it was too normal.
I would love to see something more ethnical alien, something that somewhat remind the cosmica nature of the Phoenix.

 

[GuestStar2004]

And nobody has said Kinberg is Hitchcock

Some people here can get so dramatic.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

This is the X-Men forum; everyone’s dramatic.

 

[GuestStar2004]

 

[SumT]

Some people here can get so dramatic.

Some people dont get other senses of humour.

That, and some people are just too defenssive of Kinberg.
Very interesting, to say the least

 

[Marvel united]

On paper, this sounds like a great story but in practice and Kinberg's resume and all of the bts drama does not bode well for the movie.

I don't want this movie to fail. I want it to do good, not just because I don't want the X-Men brand to be totaled but because I want to see a decent adaptation of the most iconic X-Men story of all time.

I just don't have any faith in Kinberg.

 

[psylockolussus]

This is the X-Men forum; everyone’s dramatic.

I'm not.

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