The Omega Review Dark Phoenix 2019
9Dark Phoenix (also marketed and later released on home media as X-Men: Dark Phoenix) is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics X-Men characters. It is a sequel to 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse, the seventh and final mainline installment in the X-Men film series, and the twelfth installment overall. The film was written and directed by Simon Kinberg (in his feature directorial debut) and stars an ensemble cast featuring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, and Jessica Chastain. In Dark Phoenix, the X-Men are forced to face the full power of the Phoenix after a mission in space goes wrong.
After X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) erased the events of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) from the series' timeline, Kinberg expressed interest in a new adaptation of Chris Claremont and John Byrne's "The Dark Phoenix Saga" in a future film that would be more faithful than his previous attempt with The Last Stand, which was not well received, with even Kinberg and co-writer Zak Penn ultimately unimpressed with the final product. The new adaptation was confirmed as a follow-up to Apocalypse in 2016. Kinberg signed on as director in June 2017, with the majority of the cast was set to return from Apocalypse. Filming began later that month in Montreal and was completed in October 2017; the entire third act was later reshot in late 2018, following poor test screenings. The film was dedicated to the memory of X-Men co-creator Stan Lee, who died in 2018.
Dark Phoenix was theatrically released in the United States on June 7, 2019, produced by and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was the lowest-grossing installment in the series, grossing $252 million worldwide on a $200 million budget. Due to high marketing and distribution costs, it lost upwards of $133 million for the studio, becoming the biggest box office bomb of 2019, according to Deadline Hollywood. The film received generally unfavorable reviews from critics; many viewed it as a disappointing and anticlimactic conclusion to Fox's X-Men series, although the performances of the cast and Hans Zimmer's score received some praise.
Though Dark Phoenix was originally meant to be the first of a new trilogy of X-Men films during initial development in 2016, these plans along with any future films in Fox's universe were scrapped after Disney's acquisition of Fox in 2017. All future X-Men films are planned to be integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Special thanks to Royaltyfreetube for this fantastic Background!
https://www.youtube.com/user/Royaltyfreetube/videos