Well, we’re now officially in a world where the Dark Pheonix Saga is being filmed again in a second X-Men movie.
And, as if that’s not enough, we now have an image and a video too.
The image (below) shows what appears to be Xavier’s mansion along with, behind it, the Danger Room.
We saw the danger room previously in X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Apocalypse, but it’s cool to see the X-Men training room is coming back.
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Next up, James McAvoy has released a video that, we reckon needs little explanation. But we’re confident he’s coming back… what do you reckon?
Simon Kinberg, writer of several X-Men movies, Fantastic Four and a fair few of the episodes of Star Wars: Rebels, has been confirmed as director.
Despite being a writer, producer and big noise in the FOX Marvel and Star Wars worlds, this will be his first time behind a camera.
We also know that, as expected, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Tye Sheridan will all return for this one.
Kinberg is no stranger to the Dark Pheonix story already, having written X-Men: The Last Stand (he’s writing this one too) which is probably the lowest point of the franchise so far: “We ended up adding the cure plot into it so there were larger stakes and it included more of the X-Men. The Dark Phoenix story went from being the A-plot to the B-plot of the movie. What’s nice now is my hope is eventually we can tell that story again,” Kinberg has said.
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