Today at WonderCon in Anaheim Fox put on a one-hour panel fro Dark Phoenix and they showed two full clips amounting to about 17 or so minutes from the movie.
The panel was basically just PR spiel from Fox and it started with Kinberg bragging out Last Stand wasn't a REAL Dark Phoenix movie, but this one is. How the X-Men actually go cosmic and go into space (they don't they go into low-Earth orbit), and strangely repeatedly trying to compare the movie to Logan. Then the first clip.
It was 10 minutes and showed the X-Men going into low-Earth orbit to rescue a damaged space shuttle. The launch is totally budget-Armageddon and Zimmer's score even copies the Armageddon score. There are even slow motion reaction shots of people in little villages around the world watching the Blackbird take off on TVs. Xavier uses Cerebro to tap into Mission Control and tells NASA not to worry, the X-Men are on the job.
They get in space and the shuttle is spinning out of control while the Phoenix Force is approaching it. The Blackbird has an Optic Blast laser turrent where Cyclops drops down into a hole and sticks his face into a viewfinder and then blasts away. They use that to stop the shuttle from spinning, Storm uses her weather control powers in the vacuum of space to stop the shuttle from decompressing, then Nightcrawler and Quicksilver bamf over and rescues the astronauts.
Uh oh, he forgot one. So they have to go back. Quicksilver uses his power to make a sealed helmet on Nightcrawler so he can go back over while the shuttle is in vacuum and Jean goes over to keep it from breaking apart (she doesn't need a helmet). Pheonix Force hits the shuttle after the astronaut is rescued, they think Jean is dead, but of course she's not. Cyclops is whiny as usual in Fox movies worrying more about Jean than the team.
They arrive home and the X-Men are heroes. Kids are cheering. Some have faces painted blue, others are holding naked Mystique action figures. The X-Men return home to a heroes welcome from all the kids, and both Beast and Mystique return to normal human forms in front of all the mutants (not so Mutant and Proud anymore, huh?). Raven rails on Xavier for risking Jean's life. Xavier is completely out of character and giddy that the X-Men are famous heroes, and she says they should be called the X-Women since it's the women who are always at risk.
Then they did a BS softball Q&A with the cast where Sophie was basically the center of all attention. NO audience questions. Just pre-selected PR friendly fluff bullshit.
Second clip was later in the movie after Mystique is dead. Werewolf Beast joined forces with Magneto and two generic unnamed Mutants and they were going to Central Park in NY to kill Jean. Nightcrawler teleports Xavier, Whiny Cyclops, and Storm to New York in this COSMIC EPIC to fight Beast, Magneto and two disposable bad Mutants on a dark New York street. The fight is seriously early-2000 superhero movie. It's at night, hard to see what's going on, and you don't care since two of the villains are fill in generics. The girl has some telepathic abilities, and the guy has killer dreadlock tentacles.
Before the fight Cyclops gets the PG-13 F-bomb saying he'll "fucking kill" Magneto if he touches Jean. Also in this clip you see Chastain's character who looks like she's controlling Jean. Magneto doesn't have his costume either, just a black trench coat and his helmet. It looks stupid.
During the fight Magneto pulls a subway car from underground to block his entrance into the building where Jean and Chastain are. He confronts Jean by pointing a sharp metal bar at her eye, she pushes it back and begins to crush the helmet on his head. That's the end of the clip.
The panel was basically just PR spiel from Fox and it started with Kinberg bragging out Last Stand wasn't a REAL Dark Phoenix movie, but this one is. How the X-Men actually go cosmic and go into space (they don't they go into low-Earth orbit), and strangely repeatedly trying to compare the movie to Logan. Then the first clip.
It was 10 minutes and showed the X-Men going into low-Earth orbit to rescue a damaged space shuttle. The launch is totally budget-Armageddon and Zimmer's score even copies the Armageddon score. There are even slow motion reaction shots of people in little villages around the world watching the Blackbird take off on TVs. Xavier uses Cerebro to tap into Mission Control and tells NASA not to worry, the X-Men are on the job.
They get in space and the shuttle is spinning out of control while the Phoenix Force is approaching it. The Blackbird has an Optic Blast laser turrent where Cyclops drops down into a hole and sticks his face into a viewfinder and then blasts away. They use that to stop the shuttle from spinning, Storm uses her weather control powers in the vacuum of space to stop the shuttle from decompressing, then Nightcrawler and Quicksilver bamf over and rescues the astronauts.
Uh oh, he forgot one. So they have to go back. Quicksilver uses his power to make a sealed helmet on Nightcrawler so he can go back over while the shuttle is in vacuum and Jean goes over to keep it from breaking apart (she doesn't need a helmet). Pheonix Force hits the shuttle after the astronaut is rescued, they think Jean is dead, but of course she's not. Cyclops is whiny as usual in Fox movies worrying more about Jean than the team.
They arrive home and the X-Men are heroes. Kids are cheering. Some have faces painted blue, others are holding naked Mystique action figures. The X-Men return home to a heroes welcome from all the kids, and both Beast and Mystique return to normal human forms in front of all the mutants (not so Mutant and Proud anymore, huh?). Raven rails on Xavier for risking Jean's life. Xavier is completely out of character and giddy that the X-Men are famous heroes, and she says they should be called the X-Women since it's the women who are always at risk.
Then they did a BS softball Q&A with the cast where Sophie was basically the center of all attention. NO audience questions. Just pre-selected PR friendly fluff bullshit.
Second clip was later in the movie after Mystique is dead. Werewolf Beast joined forces with Magneto and two generic unnamed Mutants and they were going to Central Park in NY to kill Jean. Nightcrawler teleports Xavier, Whiny Cyclops, and Storm to New York in this COSMIC EPIC to fight Beast, Magneto and two disposable bad Mutants on a dark New York street. The fight is seriously early-2000 superhero movie. It's at night, hard to see what's going on, and you don't care since two of the villains are fill in generics. The girl has some telepathic abilities, and the guy has killer dreadlock tentacles.
Before the fight Cyclops gets the PG-13 F-bomb saying he'll "fucking kill" Magneto if he touches Jean. Also in this clip you see Chastain's character who looks like she's controlling Jean. Magneto doesn't have his costume either, just a black trench coat and his helmet. It looks stupid.
During the fight Magneto pulls a subway car from underground to block his entrance into the building where Jean and Chastain are. He confronts Jean by pointing a sharp metal bar at her eye, she pushes it back and begins to crush the helmet on his head. That's the end of the clip.
