Dark Phoenix is a 2019 American superhero film directed by Simon Kinberg.
Official trailers
20th Century Fox on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 released the trailer:
Dark Phoenix | Final Trailer | 20th Century FOX.
Story intro
In 1975, eight-year-old Jean Grey inadvertently uses her telekinesis to cause a car accident that kills her parents. Shortly afterwards, Professor Charles Xavier takes her to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, where he mentally blocks the accident from her memories and helps her hone her psychic abilities. In 1992, the X-Men respond to a distress signal from the space shuttle Endeavour, which is critically damaged by a solar flare-like energy. While the X-Men save all of the astronauts, Jean is stranded and is struck by the energy, but she absorbs all of it into her body to save the X-Men's aircraft from destruction. Jean survives the event, and her psychic powers are greatly amplified as a result. At the same time, the mental block placed by Xavier is destroyed, and she accidentally attacks the mutants celebrating at Xavier's school after a mental breakdown, passing out afterward. She later travels to her childhood hometown of Red Hook, New York, after discovering that her father is still alive. The X-Men attempt to take Jean home, but she injures Peter Maximoff and accidentally kills Raven Darkhölme and several local police officers before flying away. Jean travels to the mutant refugee island of Genosha to seek assistance from Erik Lehnsherr in controlling her powers, but is turned away by Erik after she engages in combat with U.S. military forces tasked with her arrest. Jean meets Vuk, the leader of a shape-shifting alien race known as the D'Bari, who explains to her that she has been possessed by a force of cosmic power which wiped out the D'Baris' home planet years ago. The power had consumed all those it came across, until it encountered Jean. Meanwhile, Hank McCoy, who feels betrayed by Xavier's manipulation of Jean's memories, allies with Erik and the mutant refugees in an attempt to put down Jean in New York City.
Cast
- James McAvoy
- Charles Xavier / Professor X: A mutant pacifist, he founded Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
- Michael Fassbender
- Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto: A powerful mutant
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Raven Darkhölme / Mystique: A shape-shifting mutant and Xavier's adopted sister
- Nicholas Hoult
- Hank McCoy / Beast: A mutant with a beastly appearance and superhuman physical abilities
- Sophie Turner
- Jean Grey / Phoenix: An extremely powerful mutant with telepathic and telekinetic powers
- Tye Sheridan
- Scott Summers / Cyclops: A mutant
- Alexandra Shipp
- Ororo Munroe / Storm: An African mutant
- Kodi Smit-McPhee
- Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler: A German mutant
- Evan Peters
- Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver: Magneto's mutant son
- Jessica Chastain
- Vuk: The leader of a shape-shifting alien race known as the D'Bari
About
Principal photography began on June 28, 2017, in Montreal, Quebec, under the working title Teen Spirit.
The film Dark Phoenix was scheduled to be released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox, Big Picture 2 Films, Blitz, Cinecolor Films, CinemArt, Forum Film, Forum Hungary, Hispano Foxfilms S.A.E., Imperial / Cinepix, Nordisk Film, Odeon, Press Play Pictures, Ukrainian Film Distribution, Walt Disney Studios Japan, Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing (WDSSPR) and Warner Bros. F.E. on February 13, 2019, on February 14, 2019 (United States), on May 14, 2019 (Mexico City), on June 4, 2019 (TCL Chinese Theatre), on June 5, 2019 (United Kingdom, France), on June 6, 2019 (Germany) and on June 7, 2019 (United States).
The duration of the film is 114 minutes. With a budget of $200 million, the film grossed over $146.5 million.
The film had received a "PG-13" rating.
Rating
Dark Phoenix got low rating from critics. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on a scale ranging from A+ to F.
External links
Official website: foxmovies.com/movies/dark-phoenix
Wikipedia: Dark Phoenix (film)