New DARK PHOENIX photo shows Magneto and Jean Grey on Genosha.

The latest issue of Empire features an exclusive image from director Simon Kinberg’s upcoming DARK PHOENIX film. It features Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) side-by-side, ready to do some damage to a looming threat on the island of Genosha.

Speaking with the magazine, Kinberg explained why he decided to include the iconic landscape from the comics, which is a mutant “safe-haven” country on an island created by Magneto.

“Genosha is something that I’ve always been fascinated by,” he said. “It’s sort of Oz for mutants. As a Jew, its parallels to Israel and the notion of the promised land intrigued me even as a kid. I was looking in previous X-Men movies for a way to incorporate it. It was something I thought about for Apocalypse, but then went in a very different direction.”

Pick up the June 2019 issue of Empire for more.