x-men the new mutants

DARK PHOENIX: Fox Makes It Official With Simon Kinberg Directing For Novemeber 2018 Release

With two new X-Men movies on the horizon and movement on both over at 20th Century Fox, franchise producer Simon Kinberg is reportedly attached to helm the next endeavor for the studio, X-Men: Dark Phoenix. The film will mark Kinberg’s debut at the helm following the start of his involvement on Fox’s X-Men saga in 2006. The mythology has been played around with ever since the first film directed by Bryan Singer and eventually took a turning point between X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand. Actress Famke Janssen’s role as Jean Grey struggled with the length and brevity of her powers as a telekinetic until eventually transforming into the penultimate anomaly, the Phoenix, and appeared a few more times next to actor Hugh Jackman between the main timeline as well as the actor’s 2013 Wolverine spin-off sequel. The new film, which will be shot in Montreal this October ahead of […]

Simon Kinberg May Direct X-MEN: THE NEW MUTANTS For Fox

Lee B. Golden III

I haven’t yet seen X-Men: Apocalypse so I couldn’t tell you my opinion on it just yet, but the word now from Collider is that Simon Kinberg is poised to direct the next film in the franchise for 20th Century Fox. For this, the report also suggests it may possible, albeit currently unclear, that actress Sophie Turner may reprise her role as Jean Grey in the supposed film following earlier reports of Josh Boone’s own development of said film previous noted as being based on The New Mutants story back in 2015. Kinberg shares credits on plenty of Fox’s Marvel treatments, namely X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse and Deadpool, as well as the latest series premiere of FX superhero series, Legion, and the upcoming release of the highly-acclaimed James Mangold-directed X-Men spin-off, Logan. Sources are also reporting that the new film will also forsee […]