DARK PHOENIX: Let's Take A Closer Look At That SPOILER-Filled New Trailer

The new Dark Phoenix trailer debuted last night, and it's most notable for spoiling (or appearing to spoil, at least) a major character's death. Here, we take a closer look with a shot-by-shot breakdown...

By MarkCassidy - Feb 28, 2019 09:02 AM EST

Filed Under: Dark Phoenix

A second full trailer for Dark Phoenix was released late last night, and while it certainly wasn't terrible by any means, the general consensus seems to be that it was a mediocre tease for a movie that really needed something epic to get fans fully on board.

Putting aside the fact that the plot looks far too similar to that of the much-maligned The Last Stand, the trailer contains some very clunky dialogue and line delivery. Plus, it (seemingly) spoils the death of a major character outright - although we think there could be some misdirection at play there.

It's not all bad, though, so have a read through our shot-by-shot breakdown and let us know what you think in the comments.

Jean Distraught

The trailer opens with a clearly distraught Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) asking The Phoenix Force (presumably) why it made her "do that."

Do what, exactly? Well, it's soon made very clear that the friend Jean is talking about is shape-shifting co-leader of The X-Men, Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence).

Mystique's Death(?)

There's no doubt that the trailer wants us to believe that Jean murders Mystique in this scene, but is there a chance that some misdirection is at work?

Well, aside from the fact that it'd just be plain idiotic to spoil something like this in a trailer (we're not putting it past them), the previous teaser included a shot of Raven running away from the destruction Jean had wrought with the rest of the team, which may suggest that she actually survives her encounter with the Dark Phoenix here.

Master Of Puppets

Not just the name of Metallica's best album, but pretty much all we know about Jessica Chastain's mysterious villain after this trailer.

It's made very clear that this malevolent alien is manipulating Jean for her own purposes, and a big part of her plan would seem to include encouraging the confused young mutant to do away with her teammates.

Is Chastain playing The Skrull Queen, Lillandra, or a completely new character? We'll just have to wait and see.

Phoenix Force

In a scene that should make fans of Chris Claremont's comic book arc happy, we see Jean overtaken by The Phoenix Force while on a mission with several of the other X-Men.

What the team is actually doing in outer space in the first place remains to be seen, but director Simon Kinberg has previously hinted that it's some kind of rescue effort.

Could The Shi'ar Empire factor into the plot after all?

Magneto's About To Have A Very Bad Day

In one of the coolest moments from the trailer, we see Jean begin to crush Magneto's (Michael Fassbender) helmet.

That metal headpiece has come in very handy for Eric in the past as it's designed to block Xavier's telepathy, but it looks like one of the power mutant's most reliable tools may become the instrument of his destruction.

Okay, so we doubt Jean will actually kill Mags here, but it looks like he's definitely going to need some help to get out of this one.

Funeral For A Friend

Here we revisit that scene from the first teaser that got everyone speculating about who was in the coffin, and now we appear to have confirmation that it's Mystique.

Again, there is a chance that Raven's death is a fake-out and we lose a different character (there are a few other team members not present at the funeral, after all) but given everything we've seen so far, that does seem highly unlikely. Unless...

Quicksilver Steps Up

Another awesome shot sees Quicksilver (Evan Peters) use his ultra-fast abilities in an attempt to get close enough to Jean to take her out of action.

Is there a chance Jean actually kills Peter here and that's the funeral we see Charles, Beast, Storm and Magneto attend? There are several shots in the trailer that feature the rest of the team but don't include Quicksilver.

Just putting it out there!

The Blame Game

Another callback to The Last Stand here, except it's Beast (Nicholas Hoult) and not Wolverine blaming Charles (James McAvoy) for what happened to Jean.

In X-Men 3 Xavier was most directly responsible for Jean breaking bad because he repressed her burgeoning abilities from an early age and lied about it, but we're not sure what hand he plays in The Phoenix Force taking hold of her in this movie.

Perhaps he simply insists that the team venture into space before they're ready?

More Deaths?

As the trailer nears its end, we see various shots of the people Jean cares about being made to suffer, presumably by her own hand.

Is it possible that we'll lose more than one X-Man in the movie? This is almost certainly the final installment of the main franchise, after all, and even if Kinberg and co. weren't fully aware of that while filming, remember that there were extensive reshoots!

You Homo-sapiens And Your Guns

Mags has never been particularly fond of firearms, but needs must!

Here we see a clearly desperate Eric using his power to unload a whole cache of machine guns at Jean as she advances towards him. Probably won't do much good, but it certainly makes for a cool visual.

Storm At Full Power?

We've heard that Storm (Alexandra Shipp) gets a lot more to do in Dark Phoenix than she did in Apocalypse, and there are a couple of shots in the trailer that suggest as much.

At the very least, it looks like we'll be getting one scene in which Ororo let's loose and really gets to demonstrate the full extent of her power.

The X-Men Caged

The final moments of the trailer are very interesting, as we see several of our heroes - including Charles and Erik - being held captive in an armored transport via inhibitor collars.

This suggests that there will also be a human (or at least, earthly) threat involved. Could it be The Hellfire Club, perhaps? That villainous group plays a large role in the source material, and might well be introduced as secondary adversaries.

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MikeDrop1 - 2/28/2019, 9:07 AM

Early pre-sale suggest Captain Marvel is going to make $75-85M on 3-day opening in China. It’s actually as strong as Civil War, which debuted with $96.7M in 2016, in advance ticket sale at the same point. So we definitely can expect higher for Carol

HeavyMetal4Life - 2/28/2019, 9:09 AM

@MikeDrop1 -

grendelthing - 2/28/2019, 10:33 AM

@MikeDrop1 - How is that relevant to this?

Argetlam22 - 2/28/2019, 4:27 PM

@grendelthing - Because it's a good example of how comic book movies are supposed to function. As opposed to certain other movies which may or may not tank at the box office.

IronGenesis - 2/28/2019, 9:12 AM

Yeah I could see the Quicksilver scene playing out.

- Peter puts on his head phones, cue some really popular 90s song, he starts to run, things slow down, the audience is “oh cool another Slow-Mo to Music Scene” then BOOM! Jean snaps his neck and th music immediately cuts out. 😮

Plus

Xavier would lose his sister
Eric woudl loss his son

Promting both sides to want to stop Jean. But in classic Charles/Erik fashion...one side is more peaceful and the other is more brutal.

Once again...two sides of the same coin for Charles/Erik.

AwesomePromoz - 2/28/2019, 4:31 PM

@IronGenesis - Let alone that Quicksilver is not an X-Man (he was put in by Singer to spite Marvel) .. that scene also looks incredibly stupid.

FADE IN:
QS: Hey, an infinitely powerful malevolent entity - let me run at it!
FADE OUT
END OF FOX STUDIOS

L0RDbuckethead - 2/28/2019, 9:13 AM

So... they're remaking The Last Stand then?

HeavyMetal4Life - 2/28/2019, 9:13 AM

@L0RDbuckethead - Yes

knocturnalzen10 - 2/28/2019, 9:56 AM

@L0RDbuckethead - where we watched wolverine going toe to toe with juggernaut ......... yea we watched things like that really happen ...........

GhostDog - 2/28/2019, 9:13 AM

"Let's Take A Closer Look At That SPOILER-Filled New Trailer"

You can't make me Ror!

NicolausCopernicus - 2/28/2019, 9:25 AM

man, these people havent aged since the 60s

WeaponXCII - 2/28/2019, 9:25 AM

Here's the closer look:

SageMode - 2/28/2019, 9:27 AM

I'm just Patiently waiting.

knocturnalzen10 - 2/28/2019, 9:45 AM

@SageMode - you can be so random sometimes lol out of nowhere ....

i can't wait to see Scott actually be the leader for once .... one other great thing is they haven't touched savage land or Mr. Sinster so Marvel has some room for fresh things

SageMode - 2/28/2019, 9:57 AM

@knocturnalzen10 - yeah, I'm not on here as much as I used to be. Every now and then.

And not whoring the hell outta Magneto.

Forthas - 2/28/2019, 9:27 AM

I am going out on a limb but I think Magneto is firing the guns at Jessica Chastain's mysterious villain!

grendelthing - 2/28/2019, 10:39 AM

@Forthas - I think you are right. Those high heals and andles definitely weren't Jean

Forthas - 2/28/2019, 11:00 AM

@grendelthing - Exactly! In all of the footage, Jean seems to be wearing pants! I suppose it is possible we are wrong...but I think it is highly unlikely!

rabid - 2/28/2019, 12:15 PM

@Forthas - It kind of looks like Jean who is flying and lifting that train into the air. And one spoiler says that Chastain wipes out Genosha. If that's a Genoshan train they're imprisoned in, then it might be Chastain and Jean trying to rescue them and Chastain being overzealous.

Forthas - 2/28/2019, 1:09 PM

@rabid - Maybe both Jean and Chastain are attacking the train! She causes it to crash. Chastain enters the cars and hunts down the X-Men.

Forthas - 2/28/2019, 9:28 AM

Lostcause - 2/28/2019, 9:29 AM

Looks like one of the best of the X-films to me. I dig it. A fully belly and a few hours to kill a couple of brains cells...I'm in.

aflynn - 2/28/2019, 9:41 AM

"Eric using his power to unload a whole cache of machine guns at Jean as she advances towards him. "

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