Age-Gap: X-Men Wolverine Got Cut From Dark Phoenix Storyline

The latest X-Men movie have had a focus on the Marvel’s Comics ‘Dark Phoenix saga’, but there’s however one key storyline missing.

The missing storyline is the romance between Logan/Wolverine and Jean Grey which witnessed the former fall hard for the latter and had his heart broken when she became the Dark Phoenix.

So far, we’ve seen Logan’s love for Jean played out in the original X-Men trilogy and The Wolverine through Hugh Jackman and Famke Janssen, but this storyline had been put to hold since Sophie Turner took over as the younger version of Jean.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix is in cinemas now.

The director and Writer, Simon Kinberg however did explain to Rolling Stone why he cancelled the continuation of that romantic storyline.

“If you know the Dark Phoenix story, you’d want to really service the love story between Logan and Jean,” Kinberg said. “And I think the notion of Hugh Jackman, as great as he looks for his age, and Sophie Turner — it didn’t sit well with me. Or anyone else!”

Also speaking to Yahoo Movies UK, Kinberg said he want the movie to be centered on Jean Grey.

“What I really wanted to do with this film is focus on Jean, her struggle, and the way that was impacting all of those around her who loved her,” he said.

“I really wanted that to be the sole focus. Part of what I felt is in the in the X-Men movies that maybe are not our strongest films is that we sometimes bite off more than we can chew in terms of the characters. We service so many characters’ stories, that we lose, in some ways, the emotional through line of the film.”

He equally admitted that one of his biggest regrets on making X-Men: The Last Stand is not doing the Dark Phoenix storyline justice.

“I didn’t really look back on The Last Stand because I didn’t feel as though we told the Dark Phoenix story,” he explained. “The cosmic aspects of the story were not touched upon, and more importantly, the story of Jean and her struggle with power she can’t control was the background of that film.

“And that’s my big regret from that movie was that we didn’t tell the story,” Kinberg added. “And it’s such a complex, and epic story, it can barely fit into one movie, it certainly can’t fit into the background of a movie.”