Fox 高层宣布《X-Men: Dark Phoenix》将为系列的最终章

无论在 Disney 完成收购 21st Century Fox 之前或之后，影迷们的着眼点自然落在 X-Men 等角色回归 MCU 的可能性，根据坊间的种种传闻指出，似乎有关方面正准备替换原有的 X-Men 选角去进入 MCU。在早前全球最大的电影博览会 CinemaCon 中，Fox 副主席就宣布了《X-Men: Dark Phoenix》将为 Fox 版本 X-Men 系列电影的最终章，或者有影迷感到失望，但电影导演 Simon Kinberg 在 WonderCon 接受 ComicBook.com 的访问时就表示其实电影早在收购事件前便已有此打算：

From the beginning of conceiving what we were going to do with this film and writing it, which was three plus years ago, so long before there was a Disney merger, I felt like this was the natural culmination for this cycle of X-Men movies,” Kinberg explained to ComicBook.com during an interview at WonderCon. “Because it is seeing this family that you’ve come to love and know for how ever many films, and if you count the originals almost 20 years now, you see that family tested in a whole new way. You see that family start to fall apart in a real way for the first time, ultimately come back together.

纵使在筹备《X-Men: Dark Phoenix》的时侯还未有收购的问题，但自 2000 年首部《X-Men》电影上映以来已经有接近 20 年历史，故事的取向都有不少的改变，他感到现时已经到达了整个系列的高潮（natural culmination），要欣赏长达 20 年的超级英雄故事完结篇，请密切留意于 6 月 7 日正式上映的《X-Men: Dark Phoenix》。