Thefirst Dark Phoenix trailer is here , and short and cryptic though it may be , it ’s still chock - full of intriguing hints about what ’s in computer memory for the decade - hands and their most formidable foeman yet .
Jean has always been portrayed as one of Xavier ’s early and most talented scholarly person , and it come along Dark Phoenix is going to pass at least some time looking back at her puerility when her exponent first begin acquire . Jean asking if Xavier can “ fix ” her is n’t all that unordinary for her or any other young mutant ( nor is Xavier ’s assertion that she is n’t “ break ” ) , but the circumstances of Jean ’s X - factor activating make the exchange that much more meaningful given what we cognise is soon to occur to her . It ’s also interesting to note that Xavier ’s still got all of his hair , intend that his first meeting with Jean takes place sometime after the events of First Class but before X - Men : Revelation .
In almost every telling of Jean ’s origins , her powers always set about to spike in a moment of extreme stress that results in last around her . In Marvel Comics , Jean ’s powers first reveal themselves when she witness her best admirer being score by a railroad car and she psychically feel her protagonist dying . Dark Phoenix ’s gondola chance event seems to be induce by Jean herself , and even though she ’s in the back fundament , she ’s able to protect herself from most of the physical harm , though it ’s unclear what happens to her parents and the person in the other automobile .
During the previous scenes , Mystique has a conversation with Xavier about something he did in the past , which Xavier explains as “ protect her . ” Knowing Xavier the way she does , though , Mystique immediately sympathise that what he ’s trying to pass off as protect is actually consist — in this case , to Jean .
Jean ’s going to seek Magneto out and find him on what seem to be an isolated island ( that could very well be the beginning ofGenosha , an island nation that finally became a home for Mutantkind , before it got razed by lookout ) , to necessitate him for response on things one imagines Xavier wo n’t speak to her about .
Jessica Chastain ’s deep characterwho is an alien , but is not Mastermindis very concerned in Jean for reason we still do n’t know . But , her precise read of Jean ’s doubt about whether she ’s like other mutants and her saying that the others “ ca n’t comprehend what [ she ] is ” strongly suggests she ’s intimate with the Phoenix Force .
There had beenpersistentrumorsthat Chastain could be maybe playing Lilandra , the Empress of theShi’ar , a cosmic airstream who have a retentive relationship with the decade - adult male in the comics through the original Dark Phoenix saga ( and beef with the Kree , the Marvel airstream playinga prominent rolein Captain Marvel)—but Chastain hasdenied that ’s the case .
boast young costume root on by Frank Quitely ’s New decade - Men designs , Xavier and the other X - Men will show down against Jean just as she begins to use her new Phoenix powers more offensively on baseline humans foolish enough to dispute her .
Because there ’s so piffling of Jean being her traditional comics Dark Phoenix self in the trailer , the moment she use her telekinesis to pull a helicopter into the ground and then purposefully pull it towards soldier stands out . It is n’t just that she ’s become immensely substantial than she was before , but she ’s got no qualms about using her ability to kill people . What ’s even more horrifying is that from the face of it , she ’s not even trying particularly hard — this is just her induce a bit of fun .
Because Dark Phoenix is set to be a more cosmic take on the story , it ’s not surprising that the disco biscuit - Men head into space for an as - yet unexplained commission — but according to information released by Entertainment Weeklyback in December 2017 , it ’s during this mission , early in the film , that an meeting with a solar solar flare awakens the Phoenix within Jean .
As the most reasonable member of Xavier ’s age group , Hank is quick to call Xavier out for playing an subservient role in the mess they ’ve all found themselves in . Interestingly , this shot also gives us the brief glimpse of what appear to be the specific moment that sets all of Dark Phoenix in movement : the said solar flair that unleashes ’ Jean ’s darkest exponent .
“ You ’re always sorry , Charles . And there ’s always a speech . And nobody cares , ” is perhaps the bank line of the trailer , because Magneto ’s right — no matter how gravely Xavier pickle up ( see : almost all of his students die in First Class ) , he never stops to mean that he ’s really part of the job . Yet again , Xavier ’s put them all in harm ’s way , and so Magneto does the only matter he can by putting on that helmet and get up himself for battle .
Being the man that he is , Magneto never go into battle alone , and this time around he ’ll be join by Beast and newcomers Selene ( Kota Eberhardt ) and Red Lotus ( Andrew Stehlin ) . In the strip , Selene ( who ’s a kind of psychical lamia ) has actually get a mo of a connection to the Phoenix Force by way of the Hellfire Club . Red Lotus , on the other hand , not so much .
This would n’t be a right movie about the Dark Phoenix if there was n’t a death and a funeral that shakes the X - Men to their substance . Could it be Jean ’s , in the wake of Phoenix ’s death ? What ’ll be fascinating to see is when this funeral take place , because it could very well encounter immediately after the fortuity in place , when the squad might erroneously ( though understandably ) assume that Jean has die . Or , the scene could be toward the end of the motion picture after they somehow manage to take her down .
The house trailer also gives some hints that this might not be Jean ’s demise — it could even possibly be Mystique ’s last . Her death would explain at least the sibylline shot of Hank contend with Charles , and reason for him to side with Magneto . Plus , Jennifer Lawrence has long been suspect of not want to do any more X - Men moving picture ( before shesuddenly decidedto get together Dark Phoenix ) , so sacrificing her character to show the risk Jean is capable of could be on the mesa .
The last few shots of the trailer might very well be from unlike , garbled scenes , but the one thing that ties them all together is that everyone seems distressed and terrorize — most of all Jean , who we eventually see being bathe in a swath of cosmic flames heralding the Phoenix ’s emergence .
Get ready , folks . Dark Phoenix hits theaters February 14 , 2019 .
Update 9/28 3:45 : Fox hasjust announcedthat Dark Phoenix ’s tone ending date has been pushed back once again and is now slated to premier on June 7 .
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