DARK PHOENIX at ACE Comic Con: Fassbender, Sheridan and Shipp on their blockbuster X-MEN film.

DARK PHOENIX stars Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Tye Sheridan (Cyclops) and Alexandra Shipp (Storm) appeared at ACE Comic Con in Arizona over the weekend to promote their upcoming film and meet attendees via photo ops and autograph signings.

During an exclusive panel the actors opened up about their roles in the film and what fans can expect.

Speaking about Genosha — an isolated island for mutantkind — Fassbender said that Magneto “sort of stepped out of the conflict and said ‘OK, give us this place that’s our own and leave us be and we’ll be self sufficient and anybody who’s willing to not bring violence to the area and pitch in and do their part they have a home there and they’re welcome there.’ It’s a pretty cool philosophy and there’s something that happens outside Genosha that sort of drags him away from this place that he set up. It’s sort of this off the grid, self-sustained community. It’s pretty beautiful but then you see the other side of him once he makes a decision to do something — it’s go big or go home.”

“Everybody’s much older and [Cyclops is] a professor at the School for the Gifted,” said Sheridan on the time jump since X-Men: Apocalypse. “He and Jean (Sophie Turner) have been in a relationship and they have a strong connection with each other and over the course of the movie something happens and she kind of goes crazy.

“He’s really dealing with the loss of that person and it kind of divides up the X-Men,” he continues. “There’s some really interesting character dynamics happening in the movie and it’s really exciting because he’s a much more mature version than he was in the last one and the relationship with Jean was something that we really got to explore a lot.”

On the X-Men team themselves, Sheridan revealed that viewers will “get a real sense of some routine. The X-Men have become this well-oiled machine that people depend on in need of crisis and then things kind of spiral in the wrong direction and everything goes nuts.”

Shipp says fans can expect her Storm to move a bit closer to Halle Berry’s version of Storm, while still maintaining her own unique portrayal. “When I first got ‘Apocalypse’ I wanted to make it so you can see a continuity between my version of Storm and Halle’s version of Storm. ‘Dark Phoenix’ is set in the 90’s, so it’s a little closer to 2000 Storm. I love that we’re kind of building that out and you get to see a more natural side of her. You get to see her kind of take on that matriarchal role that she has always had.”

Thanks to El Rincon de Larelop for the video via ACE’s live video Feed on Facebook.

Dark Phoenix arrives in theaters on June 7, 2019.