In a bizarre case of art, imitating art, imitating art again, the costumes for the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix have just been leaked, and they look to be taking inspiration from Frank Quitely's New X-Men designs from the early 2000s. Quitely's designs were, in part, inspired by those worn by the X-Men in Bryan Singer's first X-Men film.
Coming by way of YouTube user vasos de cine cinepolis y cinemex (and reported by Comicbook.com), some newly released merchandise for the movie has confirmed that the team will be donning outfits inspired by Quitely's designs. They look fantastic (as Quitely's pencils always do), but X-Men fans may be disappointed by the fact that the iconic Jim Lee nineties designs teased at the end of Apocalypse won't be carrying over into this one.
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In any case, the footage provides a look at figures for the film and a fan-designed poster concept by Fabio Rodrigues too. Among the characters highlighted are Cyclops, Beast, and Sophie Turner's Jean Grey, who's likely to take on a key role in the feature, with the story said to be adapting much of Chris Claremont's seminal Dark Phoenix Saga from the comics.
Dark Phoenix, which was previously set to premiere in November 2018, will release in cinemas everywhere February 2019.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
