2) When Will They Do The Dark Phoenix Saga?
It’s one of the greatest failures of the X-Men franchise that The Last Stand totally bungled the most iconic storyline in the characters’ history – the Dark Phoenix Saga. Jean Grey even lamp-shaded the travesty in Apocalypse by commenting that the “third ones are always the worst.”
The end of the film, however, suggests these wrongs may be about to be righted. Jean’s eventual transformation into the Phoenix is heavily hinted at when she defeats Apocalypse with a fiery, bird-shaped display of her powers.
Given this scene and the fact that Singer has said how he would like to have another stab at the storyline, it seems certain that we will see the Dark Phoenix again soon. The question is: will it form the crux of the next X-Men movie? It would seem so, given the rumours that the next instalment will take the characters into space.
Published: May 28, 2016 01:29 pm