This week saw the release of the latest trailer for 20th Century Fox’s upcoming Marvel swansong X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and somewhat surprisingly, it decided to reveal one of the movie’s most closely-guarded secrets: that Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique is set to fall victim to Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey as she transforms into the Phoenix. Well, during […]
X-Men’s Simon Kinberg reveals the films that will influence Gambit
Simon Kinberg, a long time producer for the X-Men franchise, has discussed the films that will influence Gambit. Gambit is one of those movies that seems to have been discussed in perpetuity, with Fox trying for eons to get the film off the ground. They are still working hard on the film with a hopeful […]
Dark Phoenix director apologises for X-Men: The Last Stand
Long time X-Men writer and producer Simon Kinberg is set to bring the classic X-Men storyline The Dark Phoenix Saga to the big screen next year in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, having already taken one crack at the source material as screenwriter on X-Men: The Last Stand. The 2006 film was widely criticised by fans, particularly for […]
Gambit producer explains the film becoming more of a “love story” rather than a heist movie
Simon Kinberg, a producer on the Gambit solo movie, has spoken about the film changing genres and becoming a love story. Kinberg is a busy man these days. Aside from directing X-Men: Dark Phoenix, he has his hand in just about every other X-Men related property, including producing The New Mutants and Gambit. We learned […]
Rumour: Untitled Deadpool Movie reportedly called The Deadpool Before Christmas
As well as pushing back the release dates for both X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Gambit last week, 20th Century Fox dropped a rather big surprise by announcing that it has set an ‘Untitled Deadpool Movie’ to arrive on December 21st of this year. If rumours are to be believed, the surprise film is in fact […]
Simon Kinberg explains the X-Men: Dark Phoenix reshoots and delays
Just hours after unveiling the first trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix last week, 20th Century Fox announced that it had pushed back the release of the next (and potentially final) instalment of the main X-Men franchise from February 2019 to June 2019. The news perhaps shouldn’t have been too unexpected, given that the film – […]
X-Men spinoff The New Mutants could end up being R-rated
Executive producer Simon Kinberg says that the X-Men spinoff The New Mutants could end up becoming rated R. The X-Men-related The New Mutants seems to be in a bit of a nebulous state, with reshoots on the way but which still haven’t happened yet. The film also seems to be quite in flux tonally. Simon Kinberg, the […]
Fox’s Gambit movie has a “romantic or sex comedy” vibe, according to Simon Kinberg
Despite a suffering a ridiculous number of false starts and delays since it was first announced back in 2014 (not to mention the impending Disney takeover), 20th Century Fox is seemingly intent on moving forward with its plans for the X-Men spinoff Gambit. Just yesterday it was announced that the studio has set a new […]
Simon Kinberg discusses the cosmic storyline of X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Director of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Simon Kinberg, has discussed the movie’s cosmic storyline. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has found great success with their cosmic tales in recent history and Fox is hoping that X-Men: Dark Phoenix can work a little of the same magic. The cosmic storyline of Dark Phoenix is something X-Men fans have […]
Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg “never” wants to stop making X-Men movies
X-Men producer and director Simon Kinberg has said that he never wants to stop making these movies. Simon Kinberg has been involved with X-Men movies for a long time and is immensely proud of what he and his colleagues have achieved, especially on critical hits like Deadpool and Logan. Asked recently by The Hollywood Reporter […]