Two-time Academy
Awards nominee Jessica Chastain is in talks to join X-Men: Dark Phoenix, the
next installment in 20th Century Fox's popular superhero franchise.
Plot details are at
this time being kept under wraps, but the overall plot will center on Jean
Grey, once again played by Sophie Turner, unwillingly becoming the host to an
all-powerful cosmic entity called the Phoenix Force, which eventually takes
over Jean's personality turning her bad and sending the X-Men on a space quest
to rescue their good friend.
Chastain is said to
be in negotiations to play Lilandra, the empress of an alien empire called
Shi'ar, whom orders for the imprisonment and execution of the Dark Phoenix.
Despite her actions, Lilandra is a more benevolent ruler and a good friend of Professor
X who sporadically joins forces with the X-Men.
In the comics
however, the Phoenix Force merely takes on the form and persona of Jean Grey,
and not her actual body.
Longtime X-Men custodian
Simon Kinberg is writing the script for X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which he will also
direct, making the tentpole his directorial debut.
Already in preparation
to start filming in Montreal, the movie will also see the return Jennifer
Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Alexandra Shipp, Nicholas Hoult, James McAvoy, Kodi
Smit-McPhee, and Tye Sheridan.
Based on the X-Men story
arc created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne in the 1980s, the storyline was crudely
and badly inserted in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand. In X-Men: Apocalypse, Jean
was seen using (intentionally or not) the Phoenix Force to help defeat
Apocalypse.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
opens in theaters on November 2, 2018.
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