That’s a very different version of the Phoenix than the one we saw in X-Men: The Last Stand, the final film with the first X-cast prior to 2011’s reboot, which didn’t have any space stuff.
“Pride is starting to get the better of him, and he is pushing the X-Men to more extreme missions,” Kinberg says.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix opens in theaters on November 2, 2018.
But the X-Men films have never been super into close retellings of the comics; they like to blaze their own path, like a big fiery bird soaring through outer space.