Following his lead role in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, Tye Sheridan will next be seen reprising the role of Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops, in 20th Century Fox’s superhero sequel X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
The film, which has recently been pushed back from its original November date to February next year, marks the directorial debut of long-time X-Men writer and producer Simon Kinberg. And according to Sheridan, Kinberg has taken a completely different approach to the film than past instalments in an effort to help it stand out in the crowded superhero market.
“Everyone was on the same page with the idea that we were approaching it as much more of a grounded drama versus a superhero movie,” said Sheridan in an interview with Collider. “Something that’s getting old with those universes and all the Marvel movies is that they all look the same and they’re all doing the same thing. We really wanted to shake it up, in that sense, and take a different approach to this. Simon Kinberg, who wrote the past three X-Men, directed Dark Phoenix, and I’m super, super excited about it. I think it will turn out well and that it will be a different X-Men than we’ve ever seen before, so that’s exciting.”
The “grounded drama” approach certainly worked wonders for Fox with last year’s Logan, so it will be interesting to see whether Kinberg and company can replicate that with a story that is much larger (cosmic!) in scope.
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X-Men: Dark Phoenix is set for release on February 14th 2019 and sees Simon Kinberg directing a cast that includes franchise veterans Michael Fassbender (Magneto), James McAvoy (Professor X), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Alexandra Shipp (Storm), Sophie Turner (Jean Grey), Tye Sheridan (Cyclops), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Nightcrawler) and Evan Peters (Quicksilver) alongside new additions Jessica Chastain (Molly’s Game) and Lamar Johnson (Kings).
Cody Travers says
Grounded drama didn’t worked very well for The Fantastic Four 2015 movie and Simon was involved with that movie. I really hope he doesn’t F#@$ this up.
Valeri says
This Sheridan kidd has no clue what he is talking about imo. He doesn’t even know which films Kinberg wrote, he says ”last three”, no, he wrote 3, but not last three (he did not write First Class), and I wonder if he only got the number right even due to assuming Kinberg wrote the new trilogy. And all the movies looking the same? Hardly, this kid has clearly not seen many superhero films.
( Elektra, Catwoman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Superman Returns, Guardians of the Galaxy, X-men, 3 variations of Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hulk 2003( psychological emotional drama by Ang Lee), Hulk 2008, Hellboy, Dark Knight trilogy, Tim Burton Batman vs Schumacher Batman, Iron Man, Man of Steel, The Wolverine, Origins: Wolverine, Cap America FIrst Avenger vs Winter Soldier, 2 very different films, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Thor 1-2 vs Thor 3, Fantastic Four 2005-2007 vs F4ntastic in 2015, THe Spirit, Watchmen, The Shadow, Blade, 78-87 Superman, new X-men trilogy vs old one, BatmanvsSuperman(again,heavy on drama of it), Suicide Squad, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Civil War, Avengers trilogy, The Punisher, )
Truth is we have always had variety, both comedic and dramatically focused, bouth grounded and not grounded superhero films, but the problem is always the same with both…when the film is bad, it is the horrible script and plot, horrible narrative structuring and execution,and in some cases horrible acting and lackluster directing. But it is all about the script.
No amount of ”grounding it” ,which is nothing new, will make it better. A film can ”stand out” as garbage too, like the Fantastic 4 2015 film.