Simon Kinberg, the writer and director of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, has shared details about the film’s original ending and has explained the need for reshoots. X-Men: Dark Phoenix didn’t have the smoothest path to cinemas in terms of its production, including the ending of the movie needing to be reshot. Writer-director Simon Kinberg has gone […]
X-Men: Dark Phoenix was originally planned as two movies
A new report has suggested that X-Men: Dark Phoenix was initially intended to be two movies before being cut back. Now that X-Men: Dark Phoenix is out in the wild and not performing as well as one might have expected, questions about the film’s production and origin are being asked. One interesting facet that has […]
Get a behind-the-scenes look at Marvel’s Legion season 3
With Legion set to return in less than two weeks, a new behind the scenes featurette has arrived online for FX’s X-Men series which gives us a look at some new footage and includes interviews with creator Noah Hawley, and stars Rachel Keller, Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza, Amber Midthunder Navid Negahban, Lauren Tsai, Jeremie Harris, […]
X-Men: The Animated Series creators hoping to pitch a revival to Disney
Over the past few years, Disney and Marvel have done a pretty effective job of marginalising the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, with TV shows, video games and even the comic books focusing more on Marvel Studios-controlled characters as opposed to those whose big screen rights were held by 20th Century Fox. Of course, with […]
X-Men producer disowns Dark Phoenix, The New Mutants, and Apocalypse
Lauren Shuler Donner, a longtime producer for the X-Men franchise has publicly disavowed X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Apocalypse, and New Mutants. X-Men: Dark Phoenix isn’t performing as well as its makers would have liked, not hitting the mark with critics or at the box office. The dissatisfaction has gone so far that even a producer for […]
Fox planned to make a Civil War-style Marvel crossover featuring X-Men, Deadpool, Fantastic Four and Daredevil
It was frequently rumoured over the years that 20th Century Fox would look to bring the Children of the Atom and Marvel’s First Family together for an X-Men vs. Fantastic Four crossover/shared universe, and while this ultimately never came to fruition, it has now been revealed that plans for such an event movie were in […]
Concept art from Tim Miller’s Deadpool 2 features the return of the Fantastic Four
Illustrator Alexander Lozano has taken to Instagram to share some of his concept designs for Fox’s Deadpool 2, revealing that Blaquesmith was considered for the original Tim Miller version of the sequel, along with the return of Fantastic Four stars Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller and Jamie Bell; take a look here… SEE […]
X-Men: Dark Phoenix will lose over $100 million after bombing at the box office
After extensive reshoots and multiple release date delays, the final entry in 20th Century Fox’s long-running X-Men franchise arrived in cinemas this past weekend, although given the reception to X-Men: Dark Phoenix from critics and audiences, Disney is probably wondering why it didn’t just shelve the film following the Fox takeover. Dark Phoenix opened to […]
Matthew Vaughn discusses his original X-Men: First Class trilogy plans
Having relaunched the franchise with a younger cast in 2011’s X-Men: First Class, director Matthew Vaughn was originally announced as returning to the director’s chair for X-Men: Days of Future Past, only to exit the project in favour of Kingsman: The Secret Service. Speaking to Coming Soon, Vaughn has explained his exit from the franchise, […]
X-Men: First Class director would have made Apocalypse before Days of Future Past
Matthew Vaughn, the director of X-Men: First Class, says that he would have done X-Men: Apocalypse before X-Men: Days of Future Past instead of after. Now that Fox’s X-Men franchise is coming to an end with Dark Phoenix, there is plenty of retrospection going on, especially as the characters’ futures are unclear. One person looking […]