After the disappointing critical and
commercial performance of the last film in the X-Men franchise, Apocalypse, 20th Century Fox went silent in
regards to how they were going to proceed. The various spinoffs in development are
still chugging along, but we’ve heard nothing yet on what’s happening next for
the main series. At least, that was the case up until a few days ago.
Earlier this week, a
production listing was spotted for
two X-Men films that will shoot in Montreal this spring. The first is the
aforementioned New Mutants and
the second is for a mysterious project titled X-Men: Supernova. Immediately, fans jumped to the conclusion that this must
be the sequel to Apocalypse and now, it looks like they may be
right. Fox hasn’t commented on the situation just yet, but we’ve heard in the
past that they’re
hoping to soft reboot the series in order to get it back on track, and they’ll
be looking to the classic storyline of The Dark Phoenix Saga to do
so. While the title X-Men: Supernova on its own doesn’t indicate very much
at all, we now have another piece of the puzzle that seemingly ties
everything together.
Production Weekly has updated their listing for the film and now have
its working title as “Dark Phoenix.” Again, nothing official from the studio
has popped up yet, but the pieces are starting to fall into place and it really
does look like X-Men: Supernova is going to be the next entry in the
main series and will, as previously rumored, adapt the classic storyline.
For those unfamiliar, Dark Phoenix
is referencing The Dark Phoenix Saga,
which is a popular arc from the comics that revolves around Jean Grey and the
cosmic entity known as the Phoenix Force. Of course, we saw elements of this in X-Men: The Last Stand, but it was never really brought
to life properly and for years now fans have been calling for the storyline to
be given another chance.
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