When the next X-Men film finally hits the big screen next summer, it’ll be bringing one of the most famous comic book storylines to the current cast of mutants: Jean Grey’s Dark Phoenix saga. And the new special X-Men: Dark Phoenix poster, created for Brazil Comic-Con, is dialing right back into those comic book roots, depicting Jean’s cosmic jam in a beautifully old-school one-sheet.
It’s a delicious blend of retro X-Men comics and the current movie cast – you can clearly see Sophie Turner there, caught between James McAvoy’s Professor X and Michael Fassbender’s Magneto. And that seems to be a struggle that will play out in the film – as the first Dark Phoenix trailer showed, an intergalactically-altered Jean looks to Magneto for help when her powers start spiraling out of control, while Xavier has to do what he can to pull her back from oblivion.
The X-Men: Apocalypse sequel is directed by franchise head-honcho Simon Kinberg, who sees Dark Phoenix as a chance to right the wrongs of 2005’s maligned X-Men: The Last Stand, which presented an underwhelming adaptation of the Phoenix story. Back in September when the Dark Phoenix trailer first dropped, Empire caught up with Kinberg to break down the mysterious additions to the mutant hero series, elaborating on Jean’s powers, Magneto’s safe place compound, and Jessica Chastain’s mysterious alien – read all about it here.
Head this way to read Simon Kinberg and producer Hutch Parker explaining Jean Grey's cosmic conflic in Dark Phoenix.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix is due to manifest in UK cinemas on 7 June 2019.
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