10 Biggest Unconfirmed Rumours About 2018 Movies

With 2018 a little over two months away, we're at that in-between point where most of next year's major releases are deep into production, but aren't quite close enough to give us a trailer, or any plot information beyond a basic logline.

This can be a frustrating, lifeless period on the movie calendar; the massive, end-of-year releases aren't here yet so there isn't much of note coming out, and the next big wave of blockbusters haven't fully started their marketing pushes.

Because of this, a lot of 2018's major releases remain shrouded in mystery, making it easy to come across information that may or may not be true. Sure, we know that Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will be about dinosaurs, but if an anonymous source were to come forward and reveal that Chris Pratt's character will be killed by an angry triceratops, how would we know whether that was legitimate or not?

Until we actually watch these movies for ourselves, practically anything is possible. There are a lot of exciting projects heading our way in 2018, but because they're so far away, we don't yet know whether the biggest stories surrounding them will actually ring true.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix will exist in the same continuity as all the other X-Men movies - messy timeline be damned - meaning that characters like James McAvoy's Professor X, Michael Fassbender's Magneto, and Sophie Turner's Jean Grey will all be returning.

Add to that the likes of Tye Sheridan's Cyclops and Alexandra Shipp's Storm, and it looks like every new character introduced by X-Men: Apocalypse will also be in Dark Phoenix. Or will they?

Throughout the entire news cycle of the upcoming X-Men sequel, it has never been officially confirmed that Olivia Munn's Psylocke will be making an appearance, despite numerous sites just assuming she will be and including her in cast lists anyway.

In Deadline's exclusive casting confirmation story, her name was nowhere to be found. In a recent interview with Collider, Munn herself played coy when asked about the movie, saying "I don’t know what I’m supposed to say. I’m supposed to be vague. That’s my answer."

In July, Munn was spotted in Montreal, Canada, where X-Men: Dark Phoenix has been shooting, so that would seem to indicate her involvement. However, the actress has been shooting another movie in Canada - Josh Duhamel's The Buddy Games - so it's not clear if she was in the country solely for X-Men.

At the end of the day, we just don't know. That said, Psylocke was criminally underused in Apocalypse, so it would make sense for her to return and actually be given a fleshed-out story arc.