Dark PhoenixIs So Influenced byLogan, It Dropped the ‘X-Men’ From Its Title Too

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Speaking toCollideronFacebook Live , Dark Phoenix writer - director Simon Kinberg explained that his movie is so influenced byJames Mangold ’s Logan , he also adjudicate to drop the “ X - Men ” moniker from his title . He hopes , as a resultant , audiences will have a better ideathat the film is aboutone of themost iconic comic bookstories of all time .

“ I desire to call it Dark Phoenix in , again , very much the way we wanted to call Logan ‘ Logan ’ as opposed to ‘ X - Men : Logan’—to indicate that it ’s a different kind of film and to show that it ’s a more type - driven pic , ” Kinberg said . “ And for me , and [ producer ] Hutch [ Parker ] , aspeople who work onX - Men III : The Last Stand , that did n’t have any trace of Dark Phoenix in the title , we really wanted to designate that this is the Dark Phoenix story and that she ’s at the center of this story . She ’s the A - plot of this floor , everything around this story revolves really centrally around Jean / Dark Phoenix as really the subject area of the film , not the object of the motion-picture show . ”

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

In typeface you do n’t recall , Kinbergrefers there to Brett Ratner’sX - Men : The Last Stand , which was very much drive by the Dark Phoenix story but kind of obscure that fact behind the bland deed of conveyance . Here , they are playing mighty into it so much that it ’s not like a shot obvious it ’s an 10 - Men movie . Though , as was demonstrate with Logan , the actors and role kind of make that clean .

Dark Phoenix will be resign June 7 , 2019 .

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William Duplessie