Tag: Dark Phoenix

  • Marvel Fast-Tracking X-Men Movie

    Marvel Fast-Tracking X-Men Movie

    Marvel’s Merry Mutants are returning to the screen. Deadline exclusively reports that Marvel and Disney are developing a live-action X-Men movie, with Michael Lesslie in talks to write the script. No director or actors are attached, and it doesn’t even have a release date (which means it’s very early, although it’s promising that Disney is looking…

  • Dark Phoenix Director Simon Kinberg Exits Fox

    Dark Phoenix Director Simon Kinberg Exits Fox

    Just as the X-Men franchise’s end comes at Fox – which, it must be emphasized, is still a label under Disney – so too is Dark Phoenix writer/director Simon Kinberg’s time on the Fox lot. Deadline reports that the filmmaker’s production company, Kinberg Genre, has left the studio after several decades. During his tenure at…

  • REVIEW: Dark Phoenix (2019)

    REVIEW: Dark Phoenix (2019)

    After X-Men: The Last Stand, many people were upset with the depiction of Jean Grey’s alter ego, Dark Phoenix – none more so than the co-writer of that film, Simon Kinberg. When he had the chance to tell that story again via Dark Phoenix, this time making his directorial debut, he jumped at the chance.…

  • Final Dark Phoenix Trailer Arrives

    Final Dark Phoenix Trailer Arrives

    Sure to get lost in the run-up to Avengers: Endgame is the latest – and last, we can safely assume – entry in Fox’s pre-Disney X-Men franchise, Dark Phoenix (as opposed to X-Men: Dark Phoenix). It’s kind of the little movie that could, trying to put its best foot forward against a culmination film over…