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Release year: 2019

Storyline

Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix, causing the X-Men to have to decide if her life is worth more than all of humanity.

Top credits

Directors

Simon Kinberg

Writers

Simon Kinberg

Cast

James McAvoy — Professor Charles Xavier
Michael Fassbender — Erik Lehnsherr, Magneto
Jennifer Lawrence — Raven, Mystique
Nicholas Hoult — Hank McCoy, Beast

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Did you know

• (at around 1h 14 mins) The subway train crashing through the wall behind Magneto is a real train on a hydraulic rig. It was supposed to stop a few feet further back but travelled further than intended, knocking down some ceiling tiles very close to Michael Fassbender. Fassbender, ever the professional, didn't even flinch and the shot made it into the finished film.

• The film was meant to be the start of a new series of X-Men films that would star the new younger cast (Jean Grey, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Storm, Mystique, Beast, Quicksilver, Jubilee, Dazzler etc.) following their introduction in the past few films, but the critical and financial failure of this film along with studio merge with Walt Disney Pictures means that those plans were forcefully abandoned. Any further X-Men films will instead be a part of Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe.

• The film's budget was set to be much smaller than the previous film, due to the box office under-performance of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and executives even went as far as to initially plan to release the film directly to home video and streaming. The film was ultimately released in theaters and lost the studio almost $120 million as the second lowest grossing X-Men film of all time, only beaten out by The New Mutants (2020), which was released during the COVID-19 pandemic.