I honestly haven’t paid much attention to the various X-Men movies from the past few years. I didn’t even watch the entire X-Men: Apocalypse movie, I just caught some of it on HBO a few months ago and I felt it was a big MEH. What’s weird is that out of all the superhero universes, I think X-Men is my favorite? The DCU and MCU bore me to tears, sorry not sorry. But I have historically enjoyed Professor X and Magneto and Storm and Jean Grey and Mystique and all of ‘em. I still think X-Men: First Class is the best offering from the X-Men universe, hands down. But then they drove the “prequels” into the ground, and there’s very little of connection or consistency between the characters and films at this point. It’s all kind of nonsensical and tepid.
So I watched the new trailer for Dark Phoenix cold, without knowing much about this film other than “Sansa Stark plays Jean Grey.” Sophie Turner came on board to play the young Jean Grey – a role originated by the underrated Famke Janssen – and I was truly expecting to write something about how I’ll always stan for Sansa but Sophie doesn’t have the chops to play this role. Except I’m not going to write that. This actually looks… good? Well, it doesn’t look BAD, let’s start there.
I honestly didn’t know that they were getting the band back together for this one – James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult all returned for this one, and it looks like Hoult is doing some ACTING. Proper acting. Sophie also looks like she’s really doing some acting too. Of all the X-Men characters, Jean Grey has the least amount of, like, action and actorly “business” to do. She can read minds and move sh-t with her mind and, apparently, she’s absolutely full of rage. Perhaps Jean Grey is the Female Rage Monster and feminist icon we deserve now.
Also worth noting: Simon Kinberg directed this and it was written by a team of men, and while Bryan Singer had something to do with this, he’s not listed with any credit as a producer, writer, whatever.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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