"Dark Phoenix" has the worst opening weekend in the history of the franchise "X-Men"

Apparently, this one did not come out of his ashes.

Dark Phoenix, the 12th and apparently final film in the 19-year-old film X Men franchise, launched with a moan, reporting only $ 33 million at the national box office.

It's the lowest national debut ever recorded during the 2019 summer season, and the worst ever X Men the film by a sizable margin, well below the opening weekend of $ 53.1 million for 2013 The wolverine.

So, what has happened? To start, Dark Phoenix debuted at terrible reviews, including a 23% franchise rating on rotten tomatoes. This is a horrendous score for all movies, but mostly because the film fits the most beloved storyline in the history of the X-Men comics, when Jean Gray (Sophie Turner) absorbs the seemingly limitless power of a force known as the Phoenix.

Thirteen years ago, X-Men: The Final Clash tried to adapt the same scenario, with Famke Janssen as Jean, and the fans did not approve. The co-writer of this film, Simon Kinberg, wrote and directed Dark Phoenix, and he was frank that he saw the film as a chance to right the wrongs of The baroud of honor. Instead, it seems Dark Phoenix nor enough convinced ferocious fans that he would do justice to the Dark Phoenix Saga, nor convinced enough casual fans to revisit Jean Gray's eyes turning red as she looks into the middle distance and hurts a group of his friends.

In fact, thanks to the marketing of the film, the only thing the fans were certain of was that Mystique, the character played by Dark PhoenixThe biggest star of the country, Jennifer Lawrence, is killed in the movie: Not really a huge incentive to rush to see him.

In addition, the public did not meet Turner's Jean Gray version until 2016. X-Men: Apocalypse, one of the lowest rated and least profitable X Men movies in all the franchise, so it's not as if there had been a huge wave of affection for this version of the character.

Since apocalypse, the flagship X Men the franchise was dormant while two fallout from R-rated – the conscious comedy Deadpool 2 and the dark drama Logan – introduces fresh and attractive approaches to making superhero films and is open to great success and box office success. Dark Phoenix, on the contrary, resembled a return to the same formula as that of the first X Men films without innovation.

Dark PhoenixThe only distinctive quality of it is that it was sold as the conclusion of the convoluted saga launched for the first time in the 2000s. X Men. But the audience just got clogged Avengers: End of the game, the final film of the Infinity saga, much more popular (and internally coherent) within the Marvel film universe. So Dark Phoenix – the fourth superhero movie this year after Captain Marvel, Shazam!, and End of Game – probably ran into a major superhero fatigue.

Finally, the studio that published Dark Phoenix and any other X-Men movie, 20th Century Fox, has just been purchased by Disney, which brings back the movie rights on the X-Men to Marvel Studios. This suggests that in a few years, professors Charles Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine, Mystic and Jean Gray will begin to make their way into Marvel's film universe – so why buy a ticket for a lame duck franchise? is already on the horizon?