But while that’s all fine, I’m preoccupied with the new leather costumes the X-Men are outfitted. “Dark Phoenix” is a revered storyline that continues to define X-Men mythology even today. It’s a big deal that the X-Men films are finally adapting Claremont’s “Dark Phoenix Saga,” instead of just lifting its most general elements (as seen in 2006’s The Last Stand). In 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse, the reboot trilogy’s Jean Grey first revealed her Phoenix Force powers in the climactic battle. Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam.The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh) and shy motel. Throughout X-Men history, the Phoenix Force has been closely associated with Jean Grey. In X-Men comic book lore, the “Phoenix Force” is a powerful, cosmic energy that can inhabit hosts (mostly mutants) and imbue them with incredible powers.
In the trailer for Dark Phoenix, a grand power hidden within Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) begins to surface, and somehow it’s all Charles Xavier’s (James McAvoy) fault. There’s a new trailer that the internet doesn’t seem to like, but I’ll be damned if I’m not happy about the X-Men looking like they just stepped off of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men. More than a decade after X-Men: The Last Stand bungled its version of Chris Claremont’s “The Dark Phoenix Saga,” the reboot film series is finally going to do it right (fingers crossed) in Dark Phoenix, hitting theaters on February 14.
