COMIC BOOK CLOSURE: Dark Phoenix ends X-Men saga
No, it wasn’t a mistake.
That major character death you saw revealed in the latest trailer for the new X-Men film, Dark Phoenix, isn’t the result of someone asleep at the switch.
Writer-director Simon Kinberg, in his directorial debut, says the reveal is meant to show this is a different kind of comic book movie.
“I wanted closure with this movie from start to finish,” says Kinberg, 45. And ignoring a Marvel tradition, there’s no post-credits tease. “There isn’t a post-credits scene for the same reason we didn’t put one in Logan (2017),” he says. “We want to have the feeling of completion and closure.”