This movie is being projected to be a huge bomb, but I am holding out some hope it might be decent. The film will serve as sequel to the terrible X-Men: Apocalypse, and will be the 12th (!) film in the X-Men film series. Written and directed by Simon Kinberg, and starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters, and Jessica Chastain, the film has an all-star cast for sure, but it might not be enough to save the movie.
In Dark Phoenix, a mission in space goes wrong, and Jean Grey, resident babe and telepath is "infected" with the alien entity, the Phoenix. She turns bad, and everyone else has to make some hard ass choices regarding their corrupted team member. This story has already been done in the comics, and again in the (terrible) X-Men 3. If you haven't caught those incarnations of the story, here's a great animated breakdown of exactly what is going on in this cosmic tale.
Dark Phoenix releases June 7th, 2019.
