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We're in for more of a wait as the release date for X-Men: Dark Phoenix has once again, been delayed. The movie will now be released in June 2019 and not February as was planned previously.
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Writer and director, Simon Kinberg, spoke to Collider to explain why his mutant blockbuster has been delayed so much.
"It was a date, February 14th, that we initially liked for the movie but when we realised that we weren't gonna have the visual effects ready to release it globally the way we wanted to, and the Gambit date opened up because it wasn't gonna be ready for that June 7th date," he said.
He continued, "We looked at that date versus the February 14th date, the studio did and we did, we felt like that June date was a bigger opportunity for us globally. More screens, more IMAX screens, a better chance to play in China where these movies have a massive following."
"What we found when we released the trailer was that 44, 45 million views of the trailer were in China alone... Specific for us, it is an opportunity to be a bigger movie day-and-date globally," he added.
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Simon also insisted that the reshoots become part of an overall plan, inspired by Marvel Studios' epics.
"One of the many things that Marvel Studios does so brilliantly is they build into their budgets a reshoot period because the same way that writing a screenplay is an iterative process when you're writing draft after draft, it makes sense—the way Marvel does it, the way Pixar does it—that making the movie is an iterative process as well, so you're learning as you're making the film, you're learning as you're editing the film what it needs," he said.
Looks like we'll have to take his word for it and just hold on a little longer!
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