“There was an element of this being Jean's story,” he says. “And I was committing so fully to it that I didn't want to run the risk of pulling away from Jean by going to the well of a fan-favorite character in these movies. I wanted this to be a very different experience of seeing an X-Men movie.”
To put it even more plainly, in March, Fox executive Emma Watts described Dark Phoenix as "the perfect send off" for Fox's X-Men film franchise. So no, there will be no sequel to Dark Phoenix, but we will be seeing the X-Men again.
How is Jean alive in Days of Future Past if she died in Dark Phoenix?
The Phoenix Force won't let her permanently die. The Phoenix Force will alter or facilitate the altering of time, if that's what it takes to insure Jean Grey will always live. In the comic series Jean Grey has been resurrected many times as an adult, as a child, and as a pre-adult teenager.
Reynolds and Jackman released a video in September confirming that Logan, which takes place in 2029, is a "totally separate thing." Wolverine is dead and will remain dead, Reynolds said. "Logan died in Logan; not touching that," Reynolds said.
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Where does Logan fit in the timeline?
Is Logan canon? The film Logan is set in 2029, taking place after every other film in the X-Men franchise. Logan paints a dark picture of the future for mutants. Prior to the events of the film, Xavier's diminishing health had caused him to accidentally unleash a psychic attack, killing all of the X-Men.
As Pierce holds Rictor at gunpoint, Rice tells Logan, who killed Rice's father years ago at the Weapon X facility, that no new mutants have been born due to genetically engineered crops created by Transigen and distributed through the world's food supply. Logan, having found a gun, shoots Rice dead and injures Pierce.
Wolverine's main weakness is drowning, but that was only something that he used to kill his son, Daken. While that is his main weakness, Logan has died by having all his flesh melted off his body, by suffocating in adamantium, and he even killed himself once to end a threat to the world.
Meanwhile, the Adamantium was constantly poisoning his insides; Logan's healing factor initially kept the metal's toxicity in check but, as it gradually failed, the poison began overwhelming his system and killing him. Adamantium poisoning may also have turned into the cause of his healing factor's increasing failure.
Following this logic, they could simply say "Deadpool 3" takes place just before Professor X's seizure killed hundreds of people, and that's why Wolverine is here alongside other characters. This tracks with what Hugh Jackman himself has said in the past.
Even the first Dark Phoenix trailer hinted that Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique, aka Raven, might die. Sure enough, the film's first act ends with Jean Grey losing control; she accidentally sends Mystique flying with a telekinetic blast, and the shapeshifter is killed after getting impaled by a broken piece of wood.
Now, Mystique's skin actually looks like skin -- less like a coat of blue rubber was applied over the body of an Oscar-winning actor. This new layering technique and the color applied to it make Lawrence's yellow eyes pop even more.
What happened to Jean Grey at the end of Dark Phoenix?
At the end of the movie, Jean takes full control of her Phoenix powers and is seen flying around in space, with Xavier's school now called the Jean Grey School, and Professor X implied to have left the school with Hank McCoy to run.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, writer and director Simon Kinberg said it “didn't sit well” with him to try and shoehorn Hugh Jackman's Wolverine into the film, thanks to his traditional romance with Jean Grey, played this time by a much younger Sophie Turner. “There was an element of this being Jean's story.
Dark Phoenix's original ending would see Jean, now able to control her powers, blast off into space to face off against the alien armada threatening Earth. The armada would swarm and overpower her, forcing her into her most powerful form: the Phoenix.
Dark Phoenix's final scene is a nod to when Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr met decades earlier in First Class, the origin story that saw Xavier offering his new friend a home at his X-mansion. At the end of Dark Phoenix, the roles are reversed, with Magneto offering Xavier a home on his island of Genosha.
Persephone would turn out to be the one leading Wolverine to her doorstep for revenge, but her powers are far greater than just deception. As a mutant with power over the dead, it was Persephone who brought Wolverine back to life...
His body's mutant powers heal him almost instantly, and his skeleton is coated in a nearly indestructible fictional alloy, adamantium. What's more, because his healing ability also affects the aging process, Logan has looked the same age (early 30s at most) for more than 100 years.
Director Shawn Levy continues to talk about his excitement for Deadpool 3, and in the process he makes it very clear that James Mangold's Logan is canon, and it seems like the events of that movie matters in the new Deadpool movie.
He has "died" countless times, but always breaks fourth wall and explains how it is only a narrative death - meaning he'd be back in a moment since this was all a plot device.
Bucky ties into Wolverine's memories and when he finds him, the Winter Soldier reveals he killed his wife and unborn child on orders from his superiors. Bucky recounts killing Logan's pregnant wife Itsu in Japan.
Yes, Wolverine/Logan/James Howlett, once an X-Man, now a dead man, is back. Despite officially bidding farewell to the character in 2015, and the character heroically dying in 2017's Logan, Jackman has been convinced to reprise his much-loved mutant character once again.
Trash-talking hero 'wouldn't mix with the tone,' he says. Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds says he wants to pair his wisecracking antihero with the feral tough guy Wolverine, but the upcoming movie Logan isn't the proper vehicle.
Since Magneto isn't an X-Men it's unlikely he was present in the X-Mansion during Charles' seizure. That said, his whereabouts in Logan is never stated, with the most likely answer being that he's dead.
In a post-credits scene, Xavier speaks to Moira McTaggert (Olivia Williams) through the body of a comatose man, implying that the Phoenix had not entirely killed him. Xavier was able to survive by transferring his consciousness into the body of a comatose patient.
