X-Men: Dark Phoenix is most likely going to be the last X-Men installment in the 20th Century Fox’s Marvel series, which has spanned now 20 years. There’s been delays, postponements, and reshoots for Dark Phoenix, but writer and director Simon Kinberg teased fans that we should be expecting something in regards to his film really soon. Kinberg is producing the new The Twilight Zone and was asked about his Marvel project, to which he replied: “you’ll see something soon”.
Kinberg had addressed last December that Dark Phoenix is meant to be both the end of one chapter, as well as the beginning of another:
“I see it as a new chapter. I see it as taking the franchise in a different direction tonally. And that doesn’t mean that the next one will have the same tone, it just means that the next one can have a different tone. I think for many years, the X-Men, Bryan [Singer] really transformed the superhero genre in 2000 or 2001 when the first one came out. That’s almost 20 years ago. It is a long time ago. And at that time, superhero movies were not wildly popular, actually. There had been a few failures in the mid-90s, and there hadn’t been a lot of superhero movies, if any, around that time and X-Men sort of was revolutionary in its moment.
“But that was 20 years ago and I think, I really felt like it time to really change the look, the feel, the tone, the vibe of these movies. And that doesn’t mean this is the one going forward, it just means that if it’s me or whoever directs the next one, you can make it different, and you have to make it different.”
X-Men: Dark Phoenix is supposed to hit theaters on June 7th of this year. Are you looking forward to it?
Source: CB
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