Writer/Director Simon Kinberg has had quite a long relationship with the X-Men franchise. He has worked on nine X-Men films since the first entry in the franchise was released.  Now, finally, Kinberg has moved onto the director’s chair for the franchise’s next installment, Dark Phoenix.

Last month, during a roundtable conversation moderated by The Hollywood Reporter, Kinberg and a group of other fellow creators were asked if they had used any of the fans’ suggestions or ideas for their projects, Kinberg said he did use fans reaction to correct the mistake done in his script for X-Men: The Last Stand through X-Men: Days of Future Past.

A lot of fans were unhappy with The Last Stand’s ending which resulted in the deaths of many popular mutants including Jean Grey. After considering the fans’ reaction, Kinberg decided to reverse those decisions with the time-bending movie X-Men: Days of Future Past.

“I co-wrote X-Men 3, the ‘Dark Phoenix’ story, which is probably the most sacred of the X-Men storylines in the comics,” Kinberg said. “Fanboys and girls did not love the movie [X-Men: The Last Stand]. When I wrote X-Men: Days of Future Past years later — it was a time travel story — I thought, ‘Well, here’s an opportunity to rewrite this mistake — bring Jean Grey back to life.’ I got to go back and essentially erase a $200 million movie.”

During the same interview, when Kinberg was asked when he would stop working on X-Men films, he said never. He said he would want to continue making X-Men movies, as the spinoffs have paved the way for new creative paths.

“I hope never,” Kinberg responded. “We have found in terms of doing stand-alone movies like Logan and Deadpool that we can smuggle a different genre into the comic book movie. Logan was a Western, and Deadpool was like a Monty Python, R-rated comedy.”

Amid rumors of cancellation, X-Men: Dark Phoenix is currently scheduled to release on February 14, 2019, while The New Mutants is set to debut on August 2, 2019.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter