The Second X-Men: Dark Phoenix Trailer Shows off Jean Grey Running Amok

It’s something of a bittersweet ending to say goodbye to the original X-Men film chronology. Although the timeline has become almost impossibly confusing over the years, and crossed over on several occasions, altering past and future, there’s still novelty in the realization that the release of X-Men: Dark Phoenix represents the 12th and final installment in a series that has been going in some form ever since 2000’s original X-Men helped kick off the viability of the modern superhero genre in the first place. It was Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine who largely provided the glue to tie everything together, but seeing as he’s said his farewell to the character, perhaps this is indeed the right time to wave goodbye to X-Men under the Fox banner.

The second trailer for the troubled Dark Phoenix hit the web today, hyping the film’s June 7, 2019 release to what felt something like a collective shrug from the internet. After the disappointment of X-Men: Apocalypse and the knowledge that the Fox merger with Disney will likely mean the entire series gets rebooted (possibly as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) in the near future, it simply feels like viewers don’t want to invest much into the old X-Men chronology at this point. That hasn’t done any favors to Dark Phoenix, which saw its release pushed back for reshoots after poor test screenings.