X-Men: Dark Phoenix Aiming To Be Like Avengers: Endgame

X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Avengers: Endgame might not have much in common, but it looks like the upcoming mutant movie is going to end up like Joe and Anthony Russo's latest Marvel entry by culminating the X-Men franchise. Endgame marked the end of the first ten years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, closing the chapter on Phase 3 of the franchise.

Now, director Simon Kinberg says that Dark Phoenix is going to do the same thing, capping 20^th Century Fox's X-Men film franchise and its 20 years of releasing films.

"I approach this movie as the culmination of 20 years of storytelling, of living with the X-Men for all this time and watching this family come together, and this movie is the movie that challenged that family and tears them apart in a new way," Kinberg said in an interview with ComicBook.com, "And so I imagined it as the culmination, and I even pitched it to the studio, as this is the culmination of this cycle of X-Men stories. Which there will be more X-Men movies in the future no doubt, but this particular cycle with this cast, it felt like it was time to do kind of what Game of Thrones has done, what Endgame has done, really see them challenged in a new way and sort of survive and go off into the sunset."

As disappointing as it might seem to hear that Dark Phoenix marks the end of Fox's mutant franchise, Marvel fans are more eager to see the studio's mutants make their way to the MCU. The X-Men films don't do that well at the box office, and most entries don't receive that much critical acclaim either.

Fans are eager to see what Marvel might do with the mutants in the MCU – though it might take a while before the studio considers bringing in the mutants.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix is set to premiere on June 7, 2019.

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