Dark Phoenix

Dark Phoenix is the 2019 20th Century Fox live-action feature film based on the Marvel Comics X-Men characters and storylines of the same name. It is a sequel to X-Men: Apocalypse and the seventh film in the X-Men film series.

The story opens with Professor X (James McAvoy) sending his team of X-Men on a space rescue mission as part of his efforts to prove the value of Mutants to society at large. The mission goes awry and the team is put in mortal danger when they are hit by an energy force. Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) manages to shield the team with her psychic abilities, saving their lives. However, she is now host to a powerful entity called the Phoenix force which is slowly pushing her to the dark side. The question of whether to save her or stop her fragments the X-Men even as outside forces seek to turn the Dark Phoenix into a weapon. The film also stars Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters and Jessica Chastain.

This is the second attempt in the film series at adapting the beloved Dark Phoenix storyline from the X-Men comics, with the previous attempt being X-Men: The Last Stand, which featured the original (pre-Days Of Future Past) cast of this film series.

Simon Kinberg, who co-wrote X-Men: The Last Stand, directed this film from his own script. He also produced the movie along with Hutch Parker, Lauren Shuler Donner and Todd Hallowell.

The film was a box office bomb that was derided by critics. Frustrated fans saw this as yet another misfire in bringing the Dark Phoenix story to film. It is the last movie in the X-Men Film series, though that has as much to do with Fox merging into Disney (and therefore giving Marvel Studios control of the franchise) as this installment's poor performance.