In a bit of unfortunate writing on the author's part, Kinberg is quoted as mentioning extraterrestrial characters, and then immediately saying the movie is more grounded and relatable LOL. Not that the two necessarily exclude each other, I just find it funny how they keep using the term "grounded" for this movie when all previous X-Men movies always seemed pretty grounded already, except this is the first one featuring aliens. Minor quibbles aside, I'm still quite looking forward to Dark Phoenix - for some reason it feels like a lifetime since Apocalypse came out and I'm just super hungry for the X-Men on the big screen. But at least I'll have Deadpool 2 for this weekend.
Have you ever seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind? or an episode of Star Trek?. Have you heard of Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans , extraterrestrial characters in star trek, the greatest science fiction series known to man kind.
If you have not heard of them, Did you watch X-Men TAS interpretation of the story, The SHIAR (extraterrestrial characters) came to kill Jean. Xavier got caught up in his feelings for Lilandra, Jean , his xmen and the fate of universe. The grounded part was... to kill or not kill jean aspect. It caused a rift between Xavier and extraterrestrial Lilandra, who was also his lover. X-Men has always been grounded and should remain grounded. The movies are grounded because they have the stories and the depth. The not grounded comic movies are that way because they don't have the story or content and need to fill it up with the CG fton.
All I can say is this from Star Trek. It could work , if done correctly.
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It's clear that Kinberg said whatever the hell came up in his head. "Extraterrestrial characters... grounded and real". He's not saying anything new, unless you take the "extraterrestrial characters" comment way too literally. Filmmakers have been known to flat out lie before. I wouldn't put much thought in that one way or the other.
I wish some actual meaty news would come up. Something that isn't just speculation or hint. But then again, nobody wants to spoil their own movie. I guess we just have to wait for the first teaser. Which should come up in July-August I think?
I hate to ask concerning the term grounded or the best way to explain it. Did you understand James Cameron's ciritcsm of GOTG compared to Interstellar or The Martian? All 3 movies are fictional but GOTG is not grounded as the other 2. Grounded means actually telling a story and being more self aware, not getting too caught up in the spectacle, a very tempting thing for any space related film. Dark Phoenix could be more Interstellar and less GOTG,as a grounded movie or the Martian, made by Fox.
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