Is that confirmed?
I believe Olivia Munn was the one that prematurely said that the movie was going to be two parts but I didn't know that Kinberg was considering it. If he wanted to do it, why did Singer's refusal impact that? Kinberg was director, producer and writer, wheras Singer had no involvement, as far as I'm aware.
Munn wasn't even on the movie. What was she even saying lol.
I mean back when Singer was signed to do X3 he refused to make that two movies. With their second shot at the Dark Phoenix storyline Kinberg tried to make it two movies but the studio got in the way.
Chris Claremont himself confirmed it back in August.
https://www.insider.com/dark-phoenix...tations-2019-8The entire comic-book saga unfolded over more than a dozen issues of "Uncanny X-Men" in the late 1970s and 1980, which means it can be challenging to adapt it for a two-hour movie. Deadline reported in June that "Dark Phoenix" was originally planned as two movies, but the studio Fox scrapped those plans, and director Simon Kinberg — who had been a longtime franchise producer and writer — rewrote the script to accommodate.
"Simon wanted to do it as two films," Claremont confirmed. "One to make the audience fall in love with Jean and the other to break their hearts. But to do it in an hour and 50 minutes is a challenge. To his credit, despite a lot of outside interference from companies that will remain nameless, he pretty much got away with it."
How many minutes was Dark Phoenix?? It felt short when watching, as if too much was presented without enough time to explain adequately.
I dunno about that. He said Dark Phoenix was a good movie in the link I posted, which was two months after it came out.
Despite production issues, Claremont is still fond of "Dark Phoenix."
"As the cocreator of the source material, and as a colleague, I felt that Simon did the very best work possible within a whole bunch of contexts that were totally out of his control," Claremont said. "It was a good film. It was way better than 'X-Men: The Last Stand.'"
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Psylocke was originally supposed to be in the movie, and her role would have been similar to Selene's role. Essentially becoming Magneto's right hand women. However, because of Predator she couldn't film because of conflict, and so they wrote Selene in. Purple haired psychic with a knife....
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I'm getting an itch to see Dark Phoenix.
Unless your Dave Cameron, Star Wars, or Avengers 4, I wouldn't write a script knowing it'll either not be shown, or it'll be extra on a DVD people probably won't buy because the movie got bad reviews for not looking complete. I watched Justice League twice, and never knew there was a longer cut.