Sophie Turner on the MCU and DARK PHOENIX’s “completely different take on an X-Men movie.”

DARK PHOENIX star Sophie Turner provided lots of information regarding her upcoming reprisal as Jean Grey while attending New York Comic Con. Now thanks to Newsweek, we have more detailed information on what she had to say.

First thing’s first, Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox will reportedly be finalized at the beginning of 2019. While Turner’s future as the omega mutant remains to be seen, she had something to say about if the X-Men can work in the MCU’s Avenger’s universe.

“I don’t know,” she said. “I feel the complexities of the X-Men being shunned by society and segregated is not something that happens in the Avengers universe. Of course, I want to see them crossover but I don’t think the themes through X-Men will collaborate well with the Avengers. It’ll be very different. If they do it, I’d love to see how it turns out.”

When Turner took on the role of Jean Grey, she reached out to original actress Famke Janssen, much like Tye Sheridan did with James Marsden and Alexandra Shipp with Halle Berry.

“I emailed her when I got the role and said ‘I loved your work so much and you played Jean in such a heartbreaking and beautiful way and I wanted to emulate that and put my own spin on it. Is there any advice you can give, anything I should read or watch that you did?’ And she wrote back and said ‘I’m handing the baton to you, do with the role what you want this is a new thing for you.’ That was a big honor.

“And then I met her at a party and ran up to her, hugged her and said “FAMKE!” She’s really sweet and supportive.”

Starting out as a mutant just learning to unlock her full potential in X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, Turner says with ‘Dark Phoenix’ director and writer Simon Kinberg wanted her to hold off from watching previous X-Men films to prepare to tackle one of Grey’s most iconic storylines.

“I did my research, but, one thing Simon wanted to really emphasize, especially with Dark Phoenix and all the other material in terms of the movies, this is a whole new kind of movie. Don’t rewatch the movies, this is a completely different take on Dark Phoenix because of the mood. A completely different take on an X-Men movie.”

One thing fans didn’t get to see much of in the 2006 “adaption,” was Cyclops leading the charge against Dark Phoenix. That role was handed over to Wolverine, which many fans criticized. Here, things are quite different.

“At the center of this movie is the relationship between Scott and Jean,” she said. “There’s a theme throughout this movie of Jean feeling abandoned, and Scott is this one person who sticks by her while everything falls apart. It’s a brilliant, heartbreaking story for Scott but one his storyline deserved. In the movies he didn’t have this leading role, and this time Tye [Sheridan] steps up. It’s an amazing storyline for Scott and fans of Cyclops will be very happy about that. They are a full-functional relationship who can get married whenever they wanted to but it just starts to go out of line.”

Describing ‘Dark Phoenix,’ Turner calls it much more of a “family drama” than previous efforts.

“This movie is very different to any of the X-men movies. You have Logan which is a Western drama, Deadpool is a comedy. Dark Phoenix is more like a family drama, and is much more character-driven, emotional. Take away the superhero, fantastical parts of it and it’ll hold up as a very good movie. If you take the fantastical parts out of prior movies, you’ll only get half an hour of material.”

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Dark Phoenix flies into theaters on June 7, 2019.

Source: Newsweek