X-Men: Dark Phoenix trailer: Jean Grey battles for control against her menacing alter-ego

It is one of the most hotly-anticipated films of the year.

And superhero fans got their first look at Sophie’s Turner’s dramatic transformation from vulnerable Jean Grey into her menacing alter-ego in the new trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

The two-minute preview, released on Wednesday, sees vulnerable Jean battling for control against the terrifying and powerful Phoenix personality, encouraged by the mysterious Jessica Chastain, as James McAvoy (Professor X) tries to save her. 

 

Dark side: Superhero fans got their first look at Sophie’s Turner’s dramatic transformation from vulnerable Jean Grey into her menacing alter-ego in the new trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Coming soon: The first teaser poster for the film was also released, showing Sophie Turner in silhouette

Coming soon: The first teaser poster for the film was also released, showing Sophie Turner in silhouette

The trailer begins Jean as a child pulling up to the X-Mansion where she is greeted by Professor X, and plaintively asks: ‘You think you can fix me?’

A reassuring Professor responds: ‘Jean, you are not broken.’

Going to voiceover, he says: ‘The mind is a fragile thing, it takes only the slightest tap to tip it in the wrong direction.’

Jean is then seen lying on a table with electrodes placed on her head as Hank McCoy/Beast (Nicholas Hoult) looks aghast into a computer. 

Sadness: The trailer begins Jean as a child pulling up to the X-Mansion where she is greeted by Professor X, and plaintively asks: 'You think you can fix me?'

Sadness: The trailer begins Jean as a child pulling up to the X-Mansion where she is greeted by Professor X, and plaintively asks: ‘You think you can fix me?’

Star student:A reassuring Professor responds: 'Jean, you are not broken'

Star student:A reassuring Professor responds: ‘Jean, you are not broken’

Raven Darkholme/ Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) then says: ‘Charles, what did you do?’

A fearful Professor responds: ‘I had to keep her stable, I protected her’ as Mystique says: ‘From the truth?

‘There’s another word for that’ she continues, as she looks on with fear. 

In a flashback sequence, Jean is seen driving along with her parents. 

She uses her mind to change the radio frequency before the car is mysteriously drawn into the path of a pick-up truck and crashes head-on.

Intense: Jean is then seen lying on a table with electrodes placed on her head as Hank McCoy/Beast (Nicholas Hoult) looks aghast into a computer

Intense: Jean is then seen lying on a table with electrodes placed on her head as Hank McCoy/Beast (Nicholas Hoult) looks aghast into a computer

Fear: Raven Darkholme/ Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) then says: 'Charles, what did you do?' A fearful Professor responds: 'I had to keep her stable, I protected her' as Mystique says: 'From the truth?'

Fear: Raven Darkholme/ Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) then says: ‘Charles, what did you do?’ A fearful Professor responds: ‘I had to keep her stable, I protected her’ as Mystique says: ‘From the truth?’

Crash: In a flashback sequence, Jean is seen driving along with her parents. She uses her mind to change the radio frequency before the car is mysteriously drawn into the path of a pick-up truck and crashes head-on

Crash: In a flashback sequence, Jean is seen driving along with her parents. She uses her mind to change the radio frequency before the car is mysteriously drawn into the path of a pick-up truck and crashes head-on

Answers: Flash-forward a few years, a grown-up Jean is seen visiting Genosha, where mutant refugees live, where she meets with Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Michael Fassbender)

Answers: Flash-forward a few years, a grown-up Jean is seen visiting Genosha, where mutant refugees live, where she meets with Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Michael Fassbender)

Jean is seen reeling in the back seat as glass hovers in front of her 

Flash-forward a few years, a grown-up Jean is seen visiting Genosha, where mutant refugees live, where she meets with Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Michael Fassbender).

Jeans says: ‘I came looking for answers.’  

A platinum haired Jessica Chastain, who plays a mysterious character that controls the Phoenix, says: ‘You feel like you don’t belong here. You don’t. They can’t begin to comprehend what you are.’

A voiceover then says ‘she’s changing’ as another questions ‘Into what?’  

Magneto says: ‘You didn’t come here looking for answers. You came here looking for permission’ as a teary-eyed Jean looks on.

Transformation: Jeans says: 'I came looking for answers'

Transformation: Jeans says: ‘I came looking for answers’

Mysterious: A platinum haired Jessica Chastain, who plays a mysterious character that controls the Phoenix, says: 'You feel like you don't belong here. You don't. They can't begin to comprehend what you are'

Mysterious: A platinum haired Jessica Chastain, who plays a mysterious character that controls the Phoenix, says: ‘You feel like you don’t belong here. You don’t. They can’t begin to comprehend what you are’

Power: The X-Men are seen confronting Jean, before she turns around and uses her telekinetic powers to throw police cars up into the air

Power: The X-Men are seen confronting Jean, before she turns around and uses her telekinetic powers to throw police cars up into the air

 The X-Men are seen confronting Jean, before she turns around and uses her telekinetic powers to throw police cars up into the air.

Jean, now in the grip of the terrifying Phoenix personality, uses her powers to bring down military helicopters as Professor X says ‘she’s all rage, pain, and it’s all coming out at once.’

Crying as she fights between the vulnerable Jean and the evil Phoenix in a police cell, back at the X-Mansion, Scott Summers / Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) says ‘Jean lost control but she’s still our friend’.

Tensions boil over in the house as Hank says ‘This is your fault Charles’ before smashing a water jug.

Speaking to a sleeping Jean, Professor X says: ‘The world is on the brink. I’m sorry I didn’t stop it sooner.’

Terrifying: Jean, now in the grip of the terrifying Phoenix personality, uses her powers to bring down military helicopters as Professor X says 'she's all rage, pain, and it's all coming out at once'

Terrifying: Jean, now in the grip of the terrifying Phoenix personality, uses her powers to bring down military helicopters as Professor X says ‘she’s all rage, pain, and it’s all coming out at once’

Tense: Speaking to a sleeping Jean, Professor X says: 'The world is on the brink. I'm sorry I didn't stop it sooner'

Tense: Speaking to a sleeping Jean, Professor X says: ‘The world is on the brink. I’m sorry I didn’t stop it sooner’

Explosive: Crying as she fights between the vulnerable Jean and the evil Phoenix in a police cell, back at the X-Mansion, Scott Summers / Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) says 'Jean lost control but she's still our friend''

Explosive: Crying as she fights between the vulnerable Jean and the evil Phoenix in a police cell, back at the X-Mansion, Scott Summers / Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) says ‘Jean lost control but she’s still our friend”

Friend and rival Magneto says: ‘You’re always sorry Charles, and there’s always a speech but nobody cares.’  

‘There’s still hope’ says Charles as Cyclops strokes Jean’s face and Magneto cries.  

Confronted by Magneto, Professor X, surrounded by his mutants says: ‘Don’t do this’ as they are about to be attacked.

 A tearful Jean says: ‘They’re right to fear me.’

Professor X says: ‘I’ve seen evil. And I’m looking at it now.’ 

Tears: ‘There’s still hope’ says Charles as Cyclops strokes Jean’s face and Magneto cries

The film’s first teaser poster for the film was also released, showing Sophie in silhouette surrounded by a colourful galaxy. 

The 1992-set, 13th installment of the X-Men film series centers on Jean’s dramatic resurrection and battle with demons after sacrificing herself to a cosmic flair hitting the X-Jet spaceship so the crew can live. 

Dutch actress Famke Janssen – now 53 – played out an extremely similar plotline as Phoenix just 11 years ago in disgraced director Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand.

Newcomer Jessica plays the shapeshifting (alien) Shi’ar Empress Lilandra, who attempts to destroy the malevolent, power-hungry cosmic entity with limitless telepathic and telekinetic powers in the flick. 

Fighting: Jean battles against the uber-confident, remorseless Phoenix

Fighting: Jean battles against the uber-confident, remorseless Phoenix

She shared: ‘Working with Simon and [producer Hutch Parker] and Sophie was the most loving, strong, happy set. I’ve always wanted to do a big comic-book film, but I had some issues with the female characters I was being offered. This definitely passes the Bechdel test.’

The director of the previous two sequels, Bryan Singer, mysteriously ‘stepped aside’ from helming X-Men: Dark Phoenix, but he remains credited as a producer.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix comes to US/UK theaters on February 14, 2019.

A tearful Jean says: 'They're right to fear me.'

A tearful Jean says: ‘They’re right to fear me.’

Drama: The 1992-set, 13th installment of the X-Men film series centers on Jean's dramatic resurrection and battle with demons after sacrificing herself to a cosmic flair hitting the X-Jet spaceship so the crew can live

Drama: The 1992-set, 13th installment of the X-Men film series centers on Jean’s dramatic resurrection and battle with demons after sacrificing herself to a cosmic flair hitting the X-Jet spaceship so the crew can live

Sophie learned about multiple personality disorder and schizophrenia to better transform into the possessed Marvel Comics character.  

So many scenes I have to go from broken-down Jean – that’s when she’s most susceptible to Phoenix infiltrating her – to this confident, arrogant, judgmental character within milliseconds,’ the five-time SAG Award nominee.

‘It’s about the butterfly effect of this thing happening. What happens when the person you love the most falls into darkness?’ 

Action-packed: X-Men: Dark Phoenix comes to US/UK theaters on February 14, 2019

Action-packed: X-Men: Dark Phoenix comes to US/UK theaters on February 14, 2019

 

  

 

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