The Dark Phoenix storyline has got to be cursed, plain and simple

No, the common denominator here is Fox

They don't know how to adapt the Dark Phoenix story, just like they don't know how to make a good Fantastic Four movie. Just like they don't know how to make a good X-Men movie that doesn't over rely on Wolverine, Professor X, Magneto, or most baffling of all, Mystique

Lots of the X-Men characters have 2-4 versions, all played by different actors and behaving in different ways. Sabretooth, Caliban, Angel, Emma Frost, Mystique, Juggernaut, etc. Fox just generally no idea what the hell it's doing half the time

you are right. The Dark Phoenix storyline is cursed.

I saw pics of the original Dark Phoenix storyline that they were going to use for the movie. it looks so awesome.

also I saw Jean Grey original Dark Phoenix form and it looks awesome. she looks like captain marvel.

I think the problem is the story is the comics was never meant to be told in a 2 hour movie. Unlike DOFP or any of the other comics, the Phoenix Saga wasn't a singular "event" one-issue story, but an ongoing saga that evolved and spanned a long time, and would go dormant but resurface as an ongoing problem from time to time.


It would work well as a TV miniseries, perhaps. The X-Men animated series did a decent job adapting it into two seperate episode-arcs, "The Phoenix Saga" and "The Dark Phoenix Saga"

The Dark Phoenix storyline was a long, drawn out storyline that lasted months in the comics, and doesn't make any sense unless you see the Phoenix saga to begin with, since it is a sequel to that story. Other adaptations, like Days of Future Past, were "one off" events like lasted like 2-3 issues tops.

In short, it does not and will never work as a two-hour movie adaptation. The storyline is best suited for a TV miniseries.

I was a regular comics reader back then and though I enjoyed the story arc, it was over inflated by people in general due to the ideas being put forward rather than the writing itself. It was not really that good to begin with. Hero becomes too powerful, loses control, destroys entire populated planets, goes on trial, moral dilemmas. Good ideas. Not so great in the reading. Even worse in the movies.

I have enjoyed many Xmen comics but much of their "greats" are shabby in my book. Apocalypse being chief among the shit that is somehow popular.

Casting fucked up and everything went downhill from there

Have you read the saga? Because Jean didn’t even become the Dark Phoenix I’m the movie. They only hint at her becoming the Dark Phoenix at the very end for a future movie that won’t happen now.

Yes. They didn't followed the way Marvel Studios builds up individual stories and then puts them all together to make a team story. I would have liked to see the way Bryan Singer would have handled the Dark Phoenix Saga, but, sadly, he went off to make the lackluster Superman Returns. But, he did come back to show that he knows the X-Men with the incredible Days Of Future Past.