No doubt about it, 20th Century Fox has some lofty aspirations with Dark Phoenix. This is a studio that, in reason years, has realized they could actually create incredibly different-feeling movies in a franchise, and that led to such creatively-satisfying movies as Deadpool and Logan. But, did you know that Logan was apparently was a bit of a touchstone film for director Simon Kinberg while creating the upcoming Dark Phoenix?

Yup, it’s true. LRM Online had a chance to participate in a roundtable interview with the filmmaker at this year’s WonderCon, and Kinberg actually discussed it. The topic came about when asked making a story that nods to the source material storyline, which led to him balancing between the otherworldly aspects of the original comic and keeping the emotion grounded.

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“One of the touchstones for me of a superhero film that got it right was a film that Hutch and I produced, but Hutch [Parker] was really the lead producer on the film and was really there every second of it was Logan, which was really emotional, really intimate, really grounded and real. I knew we needed to have an extraterrestrial and interstellar element to this movie, and there is that. There are scenes out in space, and Jessica Chastain’s character is an alien from outer space, and we talk about that force inside Jean being the Phoenix Force, a cosmic force, but it really is integrated into a very grounded film. The performances are much more real and gritty and they have been in the past. So that sort of balance between the comic and the space opera intergalactic element of it and the very grounded character-based story of a young woman breaking down psychologically was the biggest challenge of the movie.”

I know this is a comment that not all fans will get a kick out of. To many of them, it’s the cosmic stuff that really makes these comic books stand out from your standard fare, and in trying to make something grounded, you’re essentially stripping the story of what makes it unique. That being said, I can understand the desire to give audiences the best of both worlds — to give them the cosmic stuff without losing what makes characters relatable to audiences.

The real question is whether or not there’s enough of said cosmic stuff to satisfy fans…but what do you think? Let us know down below!

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SOURCE: LRM Online