The muddy timeline of events that led to Dark Phoenix‘s ultimately confusing villain plot continues to get muddier, as young Cyclops Tye Sheridan has revealed to the Reelblend podcast (via Collider) that the last of Fox’s X-Men offerings originally ended with Marvel’s band of mutants going up against the villainous Skrulls as the movie came to its climax.
Sheridan had this to say about the original ending of X-Men: Dark Phoenix:
There had previously been rumors going around that Dark Phoenix had reshaped its story to avoid comparisons to Captain Marvel, which also utilized the Skrulls to great effect, but this has been denied a few times, most recently by Deadline, who detailed what they knew about the movie’s extensive reshoots:
James McAvoy was the one to start the ball rolling on people wondering if Captain Marvel was standing in the way of Dark Phoenix telling its original story by vaguely referencing a clash with “another superhero movie”:
“The end [of Dark Phoenix] changed a hell of a lot. The finale HAD to change,” he told Yahoo Movies UK. “There was a lot of overlap and parallels with another superhero movie that came out… a while ago.”
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Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg’s comments on the matter to i09 were very much in line with Deadline‘s insider knowledge, however, with Kinberg citing his smaller-in-scale, Civil War-like ending as the primary reason things were drastically changed:
Still, it does seem more than just a bit of a coincidence that Captain Marvel blasted into theaters with a major Skrulls storyline and twist, right before Dark Phoenix. Kinberg et al may not have known what Captain Marvel was planning to do with the Skrulls, but they must have seen the promotional pictures and info out there confirming the inclusion of the Skrulls, which appeared a long while before the MCU origin story was released.
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