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Jean Grey and her X-Men family have never been well-established onscreen

CHRIS CLAREMENT ON X MEN 2 MOVIE MOVIE

the only story the Dark Phoenix movie told. The takeaway here is that in order to stand out, a story about the Phoenix and Jean Grey needs to do more than hit the beats that Claremont and Byrne created and tell a story that’s more complex and more nuanced than “powerful emotions corrupt a powerful woman” - a.k.a. And both were still better than how Jean Grey’s story was handled in Dark Phoenix. Neither Vanya’s story nor Daenerys’s was wholly original, as both touched on themes that were first explored by Jean Grey. She brought the city to its ashy demise because of her obsession with ringing in her vision of justice. In the show’s final season, which ended in May, the dragon queen went mad and ordered her trusty dragon son Drogon to burn innocents and children during the siege of King’s Landing. Then there was Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen. And after suffering psychological trauma that included finding out both her father and her boyfriend had lied to her and that her sister used her mind-warping power against her, Vanya also almost ended the world. Just this year, Netflix’s Umbrella Academy, an adaptation of the Eisner Award-winning comic of the same name, ended its first season with the reveal that Vanya Hargreeves was a telekinetic powerhouse and the strongest of the show’s superpowered children characters. That story was radical in the ’80s but now has become common. In telling the story of Jean Grey and the Phoenix, writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne told a story about a female superhero who wasn’t just someone else’s love interest, but rather someone with agency and autonomy who first became powerful beyond imagination - and then became inebriated with power beyond imagination. One of the main problems with Jean Grey’s story is that there have been many similar ones inspired by her arc in the original X-Men comic. Jean Grey’s story has been done many times before But with the Phoenix failing to take flight, it’s time to think about the X-Men’s cinematic future, and what’s worked and hasn’t worked in trying to bring Marvel’s merry mutants to the big screen. At best, it’ll likely be years before Disney makes an all-new X-Men movie. Given the combination of fan disappointment, the low quality of the movie, and Disney/Marvel’s recent reacquisition of the film rights to the X-Men characters from Fox (in plain English, the X-Men can be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe now), Dark Phoenix is likely the last chapter of the rebooted X-Men franchise. Dark Phoenix, the most recent entry in the rebooted franchise, hasn’t fared much better released on June 7, it was met with poor reviews and a disappointing $33 million domestic box office opening. The Last Stand was critically panned, and the X-Men franchise was rebooted in 2011. It changed the X-Men and superheroes forever.īut the awe, the emotional tale, and the immense power of the Phoenix have never been translated well onscreen, where two movie adaptations of the Phoenix Saga - 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand and 2019’s Dark Phoenix - have both been flops that fans would rather forget.

Grey’s omnipotence became her downfall, and a story of hope and power quickly became a tragedy. And with her newfound power, she managed to save the universe by restoring the M’Kraan crystal, but she also became an intergalactic threat, a planet killer who was feared by some of the most powerful beings in the universe, as well as her friends and family. In combination with the Phoenix, however, she gained both in one cosmic flash. Of all the X-Men, Jean Grey was never the one with the flashiest or strongest powers. When it combines with the mutant and original member of X-Men Jean Grey, we see everything - both good and evil - that its immense power can do.

First introduced in 1976 (and Dark Phoenix in 1980) and often taking the shape of the fiery, mythical bird, the cosmic force is capable of obliterating planets, creating new life, resurrecting the dead, and saving the world, all in one fell swoop. In Marvel’s comic books, there are few things more fearsome, more awe-inducing, or more powerful than the Phoenix.