X-Men: Dark Phoenix What’s the plot of X-Men: Dark Phoenix? Smith, 2009’s Sherlock Holmes and Fantastic Four, Kinberg has been involved with the X-Men franchise since 2006, serving as a writer for X-Men: The Last Stand, before writing and producing 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past and 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Having worked as a writer on xXx: State of the Union, Mr. New X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX Image Shows Jessica Chastain In Control /PbmprzoVxpĭark Phoenix will be the directorial debut of British-born, American-raised writer Simon Kinberg. There’s also a character in the X-Men comics called Tabitha Smith – perhaps she could be an influence on Chastain’s role as well?

Reports have since stated that Chastain will portray a character called Smith, with suggestions that the role could be a gender-swapped version of Mastermind, the telepathic supervillain. Exact details of her character are currently being kept under wraps (with fans speculating about her name for months), but we do know that she’ll play a villain who has been described as “an otherworldly shapeshifter who comes into contact with Phoenix.”įans initially thought that Chastain would play Lilandra, the Empress of the Shi’ar Empire who is central to the Dark Phoenix Saga, but the star dismissed those claims. Jessica Chastain has been confirmed for a mystery role too. Cudmore previously played Colossus in the X-Men franchise, with confusion over whether he will take on a new role or not for Dark Phoenix. Lamar Johnson and Daniel Cudmore are signed on for yet-unknown roles. There will be some new faces too, with Kota Eberhardt and Andrew Stehlin portraying Selene and Red Lotus respectively. “It was a date, February 14th, that we initially liked for the movie but when we realized that we weren’t gonna have the visual effects ready to release it globally the way we wanted to… We looked at that date versus the February 14th date, the studio did and we did, we felt like that June date was a bigger opportunity for us globally.” Who’s part of the cast for X-Men: Dark Phoenix?ĭark Phoenix will see many key X-Men cast members returning, including James McAvoy as Professor X, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Sophie Turner as Phoenix (who, as the title suggests, will play a more central role this time), Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Alexandra Shipp as Storm, Tye Sheridan as Cyclops, Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler, Evan Peters as Quicksilver and Olivia Munn as Psylocke.

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