X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse screenwriter Simon Kinberg is both writing and directing Dark Phoenix, in addition to serving as producer.
The first official plot details for X-Men: Dark Phoenix confirm that Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) becomes the Phoenix after the X-Men take an ill-fated trip into outer space.
Kinberg had previously adapted elements of the Phoenix Saga for the big screen with his script for 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand.
The film will pick up with all of these characters in the early 1990s, some ten years after the events of Apocalypse.