dark phoenix – Moe Lane

Ya, sure, you betcha: Dark Phoenix was always gonna be the last Fox X-Men flick.

I don’t care. Burn it, Jean Grey.

When Disney was going to take over Fox we all knew that meant the X-Men franchise that Fox has been producing over the years was going to end. Well, according to X-Men: Dark Phoenix producer Hutch Parker, that’s not the reason why Dark Phoenix is going to be the last X-Men film in the Fox franchise.
According to Parker, Dark Phoenix was always meant to be the film to close out the franchise. While talking to CB at WonderCon, he explained that the development of the project led them to a “natural culmination.”
– GeekTyrant

I would feel better about Dark Phoenix…

…if I thought it would wipe the board. This Dark Phoenix trailer is mega-spoilery, so watch out if you care about that sort of thing.

The ‘Dark Phoenix’ trailer.

It looks good…

…but I have lost the thread of this iteration of the X-Men. I’m not sure which movies I should see first to make sense of Dark Phoenix. And I don’t even know how much to invest in this series now, given that it will eventually cross the event horizon that is Disney-Marvel. I mean, most of this is going to go away when they decide to bring in the X-Men to the MCU in 2021 or so, right?