10 Biggest Missed Opportunities In Recent Comic Book Movies

One of the major selling points that Fox was eager to push when they rebooted their X-Men franchise with First Class back in 2011 was that they were giving another go at the Dark Phoenix Saga. One of the best written, best drawn, and most lauded plots in comic history, the story had previously been outright bungled in the condemnable X-Men: Last Stand.

Instead of being a tragic tale of Jean Grey letting a corrupting, seductive power control her at the expense of her friends, it was a boring stroll of a film that was more interested in appropriating a few crucial visuals from the source material than it was in telling a compelling story. X-Men: Dark Phoenix was poised to do the exact opposite, being based more on the story from the comics, having a darker tone than the ridiculed Age of Apocalypse, and all with a younger cast that could better exemplify the themes of the comic.

But all that came crashing down upon execution. Everyone in the film just looked and felt tired of the franchise as a whole, the story was just as convoluted and idiotic as it had been in Last Stand, and once again the studio failed to understand what appealed to comic readers in the first place.