Posted in: Movies | Tagged: fox, simon kinberg, x-men, x-men: supernova

Simon Kinberg Explains Things You Already Knew About X-Men: Supernova

Published Sun, 05 Mar 2017 10:15:57 -0600

If you've been following the X-movie news over the past few months, you know that Fox is working on a new film with a working title of X-Men: Supernova that will retell the Dark Phoenix story that Fox screwed up in X-Men: The Last Stand. Looking to add clarity to these rumors, Simon Kinberg appeared on erotic fan fiction themed movie blog SlashFilm to point out the obvious in an in-depth interview. Asked whether the obvious working title for the movie that everyone has been referring to as the working title for months now is the real title of the film, Kinberg explained, as we all already knew, that it was not:

It's not called Supernova. One of the things we do when we make these X-Men movies, to be totally candid, is — any of these movies, it's on Star Wars, too — is you come up with fake names to throw people off the scent and when you're out making the movie, the signs that show you where the locations are say Nova, or whatever the fake title is, and people figure it out, and I don't even know why we do it anymore.

Kinberg also said that the studio has come up with a new working title now, and he also said the movie will "do something bold and radical and expand the universe in the same way" as Logan and Deadpool. Kinberg next addressed the widely reported story that he is considering making his directorial debut with the movie formerly known as X-Men Supernova, something he's been interested in doing for a long time:

That is the word. That's premature. But it's certainly something I've been interested in doing generally for a long time.

For Kinberg's final major revelation, where here "major revelation" is defined as explaining things everyone already understood, Kinberg hints that the movie will tackle the Dark Phoenix storyline:

Well, I can't comment on what we're doing with this next X-Men movie, but I think a way to talk about it potentially, is to talk about X-Men: The Last Stand, and then that being a Dark Phoenix movie that we didn't get quite right. I think of maybe a few mistakes we made in that movie — and every movie has mistakes — but the main mistake we made in that movie was taking the Dark Phoenix story, which is such a vast and profound saga, and making it the subplot of the movie as opposed to the main plot of the movie. I think if we were to make a Dark Phoenix movie in the future, it would be a Dark Phoenix movie about her struggle, and really should be the A plot and the primary of the movie.

Well, thank goodness Simon Kinberg was able to clear up these things that nobody really needed clearing up.

Enjoyed this? Please share on social media!