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X-Men: Dark Phoenix Trailer – James McAvoy & Michael Fassbender face a new threat

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Synopsis: ‘In DARK PHOENIX, the X-MEN face their most formidable and powerful foe: one of their own, Jean Grey. During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways she can neither comprehend nor contain.

‘With Jean spiralling out of control, and hurting the ones she loves most, she begins to unravel the very fabric that holds the X-Men together. Now, with this family falling apart, they must find a way to unite — not only to save Jean’s soul, but to save our very planet from aliens who wish to weaponize this force and rule the galaxy.

‘X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp and Jessica Chastain. Direction comes from Simon Kinberg.’

The film’s due out summer 2019. Take a look at the first trailer below. [Read more…]

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Jessica Chastain May Be The Villain In X-Men: Dark Phoenix, With Simon Kinberg Directing

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Simon Kinberg has been involved with the X-Men franchise for a long time. He’s written most of the movies since The Last Stand, and been a producer on all the flms since First Class. Now he’s been confirmed to be be stepping behind the camera, as he will direct the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

They’re also busy filling out the cast, with THR reporting that Jesica Chastain is in talk to play the villain.

X-Men: Apocalypse introduced us to a new version of Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), who we saw having an extreme power that she must keep contained. In the comic she became ‘imbued by a cosmic energy called the Phoenix Force. It eventually overtook her personality and made her bad, necessitating the X-Men to stop her.’ It’s not clear whether the film will bother with the ‘Phoenix Force’, as in a version of the storyline in The Last Stand, the almost uncontrollable ‘Phoenix’ was part of Jean’s mutant powers that she had to keep under control. Apocalypse suggested the new Jean Grey may be the same.

However it’s handled, Chastain ‘would play Lilandra, the empress of an alien empire called the Shi’ar, who leads the quest to imprison and execute Dark Phoenix, leading her into conflict with the X-Men.’

Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult are all expected to return.

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