Did Dark Phoenix Trailer Hint At The Death of Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique? Watch Video
The movie is all set to release on February 14, 2019.
The first teaser trailer of Dark Phoenix has landed and at least, contradicting to other reports, isn't as messy as we expected. But then we did find it a retread of X-Men: The Last Stand, especially in dealing with the character of Jean Grey aka Phoenix. Sophie Turner's mutant is at the forefront of the proceedings here and therefore, the title goes after her. We have seen how powerful she can be when she had decimated the powerful mutant Apocalypse in the last film X-Men: Apocalypse with her newly discovered powers. X-Men: Dark Phoenix Teaser Trailer Looks More Like a Karan Johar Family Drama Than a Superhero Marvel – Watch Video.
With the fourth entry in the X-Men First Class series, Jean Grey looks to be swayed to the dark side by a mysterious character played by Jessica Chastain. That shift to the dark side has its casualties and we are placing our bets on Jennifer Lawrence's shape-shifting mutant, Mystique. Mystique has been the crux of the First Class series, but Jennifer Lawrence has been very vocal about her discomfort with the role and the hours of makeup needed to change her into the blue mutant. Dark Phoenix: Has Fox Shelved The Upcoming X-Men Movie? Here's The Truth!
Even the fans are not happy with her version of Mystique, since the character is now completely heroic, instead of being someone with very dark grey shades. So it was always assumed that Mystique would not make it out of the film alive.
The teaser trailer itself hints at that. If you observe closely, Mystique is mysteriously missing from many action scenes. Not just that...
There is a funeral scene in the promo, where Mystique is not seen among the mourners. So is she in the ground?
There is another scene were Beast (Nicholas Hoult) is seen cradling Mystique's face and he seems in pain. Is she dead here?
We also seen him in his human form lashing out at Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) saying it's all his fault. Is he referring to Mystique's death?
Then there is the below scene where Beast seems to have joined Magneto's (Michael Fassbender)'s Brotherhood of Mutants.
...while Mystique is not seen in both the sides.
To understand this point more, watch the trailer of Dark Phoenix here -
Well, it looks like we are bidding adieu to Mystique in Dark Phoenix. This also collaborates with the leaked plot premise that came out during the test screenings. X-Men Movie Dark Phoenix's Full Plot Gets LEAKED; Enter With Caution!
Dark Phoenix also stars Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Evan Peters. The movie is all set to release on February 14, 2019.
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