Start planning your drinking game for every time Cyclops shouts "Jean!"
20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for Dark Phoenix, their final X-Men film before the movie rights move to Disney/Marvel Studios. In the film, Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) is nearly killed during a space mission when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways she can neither comprehend nor contain. With Jean spiraling out of control, and hurting the ones she loves most, she begins to unravel the very fabric that holds the X-Men together. Now, with this family falling apart, they must find a way to unite -- not only to save Jean's soul, but to save our very planet from aliens who wish to weaponize this force and rule the galaxy.
The two-minute, 20-second trailer opens with Jean sitting and crying in an alley as rain pours down upon her. Visibly upset and shaken, Jean asks the cosmic force inside her, "Why did you make me do that?"
We cut to what presumably happened, with the various X-Men confronting Jean in a small neighborhood. "Look at me," says Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) to Jean. "Focus on my voice. I'm not giving up on you, Jean."
Cutting back to the alley, Jean tells the Phoenix force, "She was my friend."
Back to the neighborhood scene, Mystique continues in a reassuring tone, "You're my family, Jean. No matter what."
"Stop...Stop...Stop..." mutters Jean, clutching her head as the edges of her face crack with lines of energy. Bellowing a final "STOP!!!", she sends Mystique flying, hinting that Jean murdered her after that moment.
We then see Jessica Chastain's white-haired, still-unnamed character trying to manipulate Jean. "Look," she says, altering the room around her. "You're special, Jean. And if you stop fighting that force inside you, if you embrace it, you will possess the very power of a god."
Next, we see the X-Men aboard their ship in Earth's orbit, watching as a NASA space shuttle is swallowed up by a whirlpool of cosmic force. Jean, inside the shuttle, screams and appears to be consumed by the cosmic energy until it's drawn inside her.
Back to the neighborhood, Professor X/Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) look on in horror at whatever Jean did to Mystique.
We cut to a rainy funeral scene, presumably Mystique's, with Beast (Nicholas Hoult) looking down and understandably sad.
Inside Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, we see a tense standoff with Xavier, Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Jean, with Xavier remarking, "She'll kill us all." Jean has Magento in her telekinetic grasp and starts crushing his metal helmet tightly around his face.
"Tell me how we fix this, Charles," Cyclops asks in a separate scene inside Cerebro. "Tell me what to do!"
"I don't know what to do!" Xavier shouts back.
Next, we see Jessica Chastain's character on a rooftop at night, saying in a voiceover, "What they don't understand, they fear." Cutting to the conversation she's having with Jean, Chastain's character says, "And what they fear..."
"They seek to destroy," finishes Jean.
Back to the neighborhood sequence, we see Quicksilver (Evan Peters) running at super-speed across flying debris in mid-air towards Jean, then cut to a scene of a human-looking Beast having a drink after the funeral and telling Xavier, "This is your fault, Charles."
"I tried to protect her," Xavier remarks in a voiceover.
"I'm scared," Jean says in another scene. "And when I lose control, bad things happen to people I love."
"The girl dies," remarks Magneto in a different scene.
"She's still Jean," Cyclops says in a post-funeral scene. "We can still help her."
And in another scene, we see Magneto using his powers of magnetism to levitate and fire several rifles at what may be Chastain's character. A voiceover from Storm (Alexandra Shipp) remarks, "Sometimes, you want to believe people are something that they are not. By the time you realize who they are, it's too late."
In the trailer's final scene, we see Professor X, Magneto and the X-Men held captive with power-cancelling collars aboard a train car overseen by armed guards. Hearing a groan of metal, Magneto remarks, "She's coming."
The guards aim their weapons towards the main door, which buckles, causing the guards to open fire. Outside, we see the train twisting around and coming off the track, levitating into the air as Jean controls it from above.
If you'd like to view the trailer, you can see it below thanks to the official 20th Century Fox account on YouTube...
Dark Phoenix is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters on June 7, 2019.
