'I’m here, I’m saying when a movie doesn’t work, put it on me'
Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Some of the cheeriest press the newest X-Men film, Dark Phoenix, has received since its debut earlier this month has been the following: It’s one of the worst in the franchise, it’s middling at best, and it had the worst box office opening for any X-Men movie…ever. Simon Kinberg, who made his directorial debut with Dark Phoenix, has been following your criticisms closely. How could he not? He wants to know everything.
“I mean honestly, there’s no way to know,” he added. “And that’s the thing that I think can drive people crazy and keep them up and be thinking about a movie’s failure years later. If the lesson you’ve learned is that you had the wrong date or you didn’t have good marketing, that’s not a lesson.” If anything, the cast had a pretty awesome press tour, so that’s a nice thing.
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