[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”6448″ img_size=”900×450″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]X-Men: Dark Phoenix may have been delayed and elicited questions as to whether or not it was actually happening at some point, but we are in fact getting Sophie Turner’s led film, which director Simon Kinberg says is a “new chapter for the franchise”. In a recent interview, he stated the desire to do what was done in Logan and set a different tone for the X-Men:
“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. […] 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.”
As for why the movie was delayed, Kinberg explained:
“Movies get pushed all the time,” Kinberg says. “I remember JJ [Abrams] pushed Star Trek a year, then he pushed Star Wars a year, and those movies turned out great, and our movie’s turned out great as well. We really wanted to wait until the visual effects…the biggest challenge of this movie in terms of time is visual effects. There’s a lot of visual effects in this movie. They’re really intricate, more intricate than we’ve ever had in these films, partly because it goes into outer space and that’s hard to render. And the movie will be done in actually just a couple of months and you look at the calendar and you start to see competitively where the best place for it to be released would be, the best time, and the studio felt like it warranted a big summer blockbuster release because it became, despite its intimacy, a very big-scale film. So we started looking at summer and that was the perfect date for it in the summer.”
Dark Phoenix and New Mutants are two X-Men movies to look forward to, but considering the deal that was approved between Fox and Disney, the next mutant film will most likely be under the Marvel-Disney brand, so whether they decide to reboot or keep what we have already remains to be seen.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix hits theaters June 7, 2019.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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