10 Directors Who Will Ruin Upcoming Films

Simon Kinberg has had a hand in Fox's X-Men universe since 2006's The Last Stand - not exactly considered the pick of the bunch - and he's due to make his directorial debut on the next sequel.

His deeper involvement in Dark Phoenix doesn't bode well for what could be the most challenging X-Men movie to date, given its cosmic scope and fan adoration.

The Last Stand is just one of the superhero stinkers that has Kinberg's fingerprints all over it. He was one of the writers on Josh Trank's reviled Fantastic Four reboot and penned the screenplay for X-Men: Apocalypse, a film which didn't little to dispel the notion that the "third one's always the worst".

Granted, Kinberg was a writer on the thoroughly decent Days of Future Past, but there's reason to believe its quality was more down to the contributions of his writing partners Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, who left the series ahead of Apocalypse, the precise moment when the quality began to dip.

So, Kinberg's track record and inexperience in the director's chair, coupled with the challenging nature of the source material suggests Dark Phoenix is destined to go down in flames.