The problem, according to one of these insiders, was that Dark Phoenix wasn’t designed to be a summer movie.
Plus, given how many superhero movies in recent years have been successful outside of the summer movie season, there was a feeling that Dark Phoenix could join that group.
It was described as the “anti-Apocalypse,” focusing less on “spectacle and scale.”
This resulted in Dark Phoenix being pushed to June 7, despite the fact that director Simon Kinberg, producer Hutch Parker and Fox vice-chairman Emma Watts “begged” Stacey Snider not to do this, according to sources who spoke with THR.