Original ‘Dark Phoenix’ Ending Mirrored ‘Captain America: Civil War’ & ‘Captain Marvel’

Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg has revealed the original ending of the new X-Men film mirrored several elements from Captain America: Civil War and even Captain Marvel.

Speaking with io9, X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg opened up about the fact that the film’s original ending mirrored several elements from Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Civil War and Captain Marvel. Kinberg had already revealed the film’s third act was changed due to similarities with another superhero film but in this recent interview, the director spoke about how he loved the last few sequences of both films and how he wanted to use those elements for Dark Phoenix:

“My original ending didn’t have the entire X-Family together the way they are in the film now. More than Captain Marvel, you could see a lot of Civil War in that ending. Usually, these big, huge action movies have the climactic moment in the third act. I loved the way that Civil War had its big action set piece where everyone’s facing off more towards the end of the second act rather than in the third so that after that huge battle, you’re left with Winter Soldier, Captain America, and Iron Man. It’s this telescoped down view of their raw emotions, and I loved how intimate that was. That’s what I was going for with Dark Phoenix’s ending even though it then might have looked like Captain Marvel for about two minutes.”

For those of you who don’t know, it seems that X-Men: Dark Phoenix‘s original ending had Sophie Turner’s Jean Gray blast bad guys from space much like Captain Marvel did.

Written and directed by Simon Kinberg, Dark Phoenix stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters, and Jessica Chastain.

Dark Phoenix will be released in theaters on June 7, 2019.

Source: Gizmodo