The real reason why X-Men is not in the title of "Dark Phoenix" was revealed

Last week, 20th Century Fox released the first trailer and poster for Dark Phoenix, the next film of the X Men franchise. Some fans have found it odd that the word "X-Men" is not part of the film's title, but we now know why.

Sending to Collider, director Simon Kinberg explained that it had been decided to say that the film takes a different approach by recalling "The Dark Phoenix Saga" at the last attempt of X-movies. Men.

"I wanted to call him Dark Phoenix again very much the way we wanted to call Logan & Logan & # 39; as opposed to & # 39;X-Men: Logan & # 39; to indicate that it's a different type of movie and to indicate that it's a more character-oriented movie, "Kinberg said. . "And for me and Hutch [Parker], as people who worked on X-Men III: The last fightwho had no trace of Dark Phoenix in the title, we really wanted to indicate that it was the Dark Phoenix history and that she is at the center of this story, she is the plot of this story. All around this story really revolves around Jean / Dark Phoenix, who is really the subject of the movie, not his subject. "

Kinberg previously talked about Logan's influence on his approach to Dark Phoenix.

"The way I wanted to make the film was very different from the aesthetics of previous X-Men movies, which I'm very involved with and I'm proud of," Kinberg told Empire. "But I wanted it to look more naturalistic, I wanted it to look slimmer, more handmade, more real. I've been very inspired by what James Mangold did with Loganand I figured that if I could bring a measure of this aesthetic into the movie, all the intergalactic and larger things that happen in the movie would feel more shocking, more realistic, more emotional. They would be anchored in a reality.

"And so, all the film – from the costumes, to the title card, to the design of the decor, to the appearance of the X-jet – all this is just more similar in a sense, "said Kinberg. More like, say, the original movies of Star Wars. Not that similarbut the films I loved grew up to feel very hard, upset, cool and human. "

A fan trailer for Dark Phoenix suggests that the film may not be so different from X-Men III: The last fight after all.

What do you think of the reason why X Men was left out of the title of Dark Phoenix? Let us know in the comments!

Dark Phoenix opens 7 June 2019.

Others to come X Men the films include the reissue of the PG-13 Deadpool 2 December 21st The new mutants August 2, 2019, and Gambit in March 2020.