Its a movie where shocking things happen, where intense, dramatic things happen.
People dont just fall off buildings and dust themselves off and walk away.
Theres a reality to this movie and a consequence to this movie.
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I didnt want to do that by her blowing up a building with anonymous people in it.
Her death impacts literally everybody.
Yeah, she straddles both universes.
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Mystique dies when Jean goes back to her childhood neighborhood and all hell breaks loose.
You all shot that in broad daylight.
Was that hard to keep a secret from paparazzi or passersby?It was a challenge.
But I wanted it to feel like it could take place in your neighborhood.
That particular neighborhood we built from the ground up.
That entire street was a build on the studio up in Montreal, and it was a massive build.
But more because theres a lot of action that takes place there.
Houses get blown up, and you couldnt obviously do that in a real environment.
Are there other major deaths in this besides Mystique?There are certainly other major casualties in this.
InX-Men: The Last Stand, Jean goes home and kills Professor X.
In this film, Jean kills Mystique while at home.
Theres scenes of her going home in the comics.
When I was writing, I wasnt conscious of it, to be honest with you.
But its certainly not meant to be an homage, and its very very different sequence.
Jessica Chastain is in this movie as well.
We get a little more footage of her manipulating Jean in the trailer.
Can you tease the role more?Her character is an alien.
She comes from another planet.
When you see the entity that enters Jean in space is not a solar flare its a cosmic force.
For those that know the comic, they know what the force is.
Its a force she either wants to control or destroy.
So its the Phoenix Force from the comics?Yeah.
What are Chastains powers in this?She definitely is mentally as strong as Jean.
Jean cannot read her mind.
Theres a whole sequence where she basically takes apart the X-Men.
Is that right?Thats exactly right.
And how long do you hold out hope for them?
And Magneto has two mutants with him to confront Jean in New York.
Is the Hellfire Club in this?No, theyre not in the movie.
Based on the trailer, it feels like the movie builds to Scott ultimately trying to save Jean.
Is that how the film plays out?Thats a big part of the movie.
Scott and Charles are aligned in trying to save her.
So much of this trailer is Sophie looking intense and intimidating.
In person, shes the opposite.
As much as the X-Men are fractured, Jean herself is fractured, obviously.
Sophie did a ton of research on schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder.
It ends well for some and not so well for others.
What Im proudest about in terms of the action is its very visceral, the violence and action.
You see Magneto doing some gnarly things.
You imagine a train is obviously full of metal, so hes got nothing but weapons around him.
This is by far and away the heaviest use of powers weve seen from Storm in these movies.
You and I talked about this, butDark Phoenixis very female-focused.
This is something you wanted from the start, right?It is.
More than anything, its a female-centered story because we have a female protagonist in Jean.
I didnt want to shortchange that.
She is the dominant character in this movie.
Dark Phoenixwas originally supposed to come out in November, and now youre slated for June.
What was behind that delay?Well it was a combination of things.
Its very close toCaptain Marvel.
I havent had formal talks with Disney.
I know [Marvel Studios President] Kevin Feige very well.
It felt like not this is the end necessarily, but this is it for them.
It is the climax of this franchise.
