Our sources tell us that testing Dark Phoenix was a continual headache, and the feature adaptation of Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and David Cockrum’s fan-beloved Dark Phoenix Saga comic was hard to get right. Days of Future Past erased the timeline of The Last Stand, so a rebooted story about Jean Grey was possible here. Kinberg, we hear, was flexible and rewrote. Now, Dark Phoenix was originally planned to be two movies, we hear, and during late pre-production, the studio changed gears and said it was to be one movie. Kinberg, after his long tenure on the X-Men franchise and after finishing directing on Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four, was finally bestowed with Dark Phoenix, and with support from the Apocalypse cast, including Jennifer Lawrence. Richard Donner reportedly finished Wolverine, while the village-effort of producer Hutch Parker, producer/scribe Simon Kinberg (both not available for comment on this piece), DP Newton Thomas Sigel, and editor/composer John Ottman picked up the huge slack on Days of Future Past and Apocalypse whenever Singer would reportedly go AWOL from the set. Now, for quite some time, the last two Bryan Singer X-Men movies ( Days of Future Past and Apocalypse) and even 2009’s Wolverine: X-Men Origins have been Frankenstein-ed together during their last phases of production. Director Simon Kinberg and Michael Fassbender on the set of ‘Dark Phoenix’ Fox
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Also, as social media monitor RelishMix observed heading into the weekend, X-Men fans already said goodbye to the mutants with that movie and Logan.
Much of Dark Phoenix‘s failure comes off the stench of 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse, which critics pegged before the latest chapter as the worst X-Men ever (47% Rotten RT), and the pic was the second-lowest grossing in the franchise stateside, $155.4M, with its Memorial Day grosses of $79M+ coming in well below the $100M that the industry was expecting at the time. However, following that, paranoia set in among Fox suits, and, well, that only created further pox on Dark Phoenix. Dark Phoenix completed shooting literally two summers ago, well before the announcement of the merger in December 2017. It was Fox, in the end, that orphaned the finale of this once prized franchise to the Disney merger. There’s a lot of finger-pointing to go around here, much of it falling on Fox, not new gargantuan parent Disney. Emma Watts Leaves Disney's 20th Century Studios
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