DARK PHOENIX director Simon Kinberg and star Sophie Turner on the film’s cosmic elements.

After the riveting DARK PHOENIX trailer premiere, IGN has two new exclusive photos from the film. The first shows Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) being “comforted” by Jessica Chastain’s mysterious alien character.

Writer and director Simon Kinberg confirms to the site that “she is from, let’s say, not our planet, her character. I’ll keep it relatively mysterious but it is a cosmic story in a way that is extraterrestrial, which is something we’ve never done in the X-Men movies before but is obviously something that is integral to the Dark Phoenix story so I felt we couldn’t’ do what we did on X3 and ignore that. We had to actually embrace it. So there’s a fair amount that takes place in space, and the inciting incident that starts to turn Jean, let’s say, dark and fill her with this power that she can’t control happens in space. And then there are forces from space that come to Earth because of that.”

“It’s an interesting one,” says Turner. “I don’t want to spill too much about it but basically Jessica’s character is very interested in this power that I’ve kind of acquired and this cosmic force that I have and she kind of wants that force to use it for her own — she has her own intentions with it and she kind of wants to use that. And she nurtures me in a way to make me kind of trust her.”

The second photo shows Magneto (Michael Fassbender) looking really banged up, along with Beast (Nichols Hoult), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Red Lotus (Andrew Stehlin) and Selene (Kota Eberhardt).

Click here to read much more from their chat, including why everyone is blaming Professor Xavier (James McAvoy) for the events of the film which are (mostly, but not all) beyond his control.

Dark Phoenix arrives in theaters on June 7, 2019.