20th Century Fox premiered a new feature for the final X-Men film by the studio, Dark Phoenix. The featurette highlights the 6-film franchise’s impact on comic book films that began nearly 20 years ago.
The sixth-and-final Fox X-Men movie, Dark Phoenix, takes place in 1992 and retells the possession of Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) by the Dark Phoenix, an alien entity that seeks to destroy the young heroine.
The X-Men are national
During the mission, a solar flare hits the X-Jet.
The entity has her own agenda, changing Jean’s persona forcing her friends, the X-Men, to fight
This isn’t the first time that 20th Century Fox tried to make a movie based on the Dark Phoenix storyline. X-Men: The Last Stand didn’t do the story or the franchise justice.
This time around, the studio appears to stay closer to the comic storyline. Fans of the comics wanted more after The Last Stand.
Below is the official synopsis for the film:
This is the story of one of the X-Men’s most beloved characters, Jean Grey, as she evolves into the iconic DARK PHOENIX.
During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean’s hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all.
Wrestling with this increasingly unstable power as well as her own personal demons, Jean spirals out of control, tearing the X-Men family apart and threatening to destroy the very fabric of our planet.
The film is the most intense and emotional X-Men movie ever made.
It is the culmination of 20 years of X-Men movies. The family of mutants that we’ve come to know and love must face their most devastating enemy yet — one of their own.
