Fox brought the next X-Men movie, Dark Phoenix , to New York Comic-Con to show off new footage, and writer-director Simon Kinberg, stars Sophie Turner and Tye Sheridan, and producer Hutch Parker were also on hand to discuss the film.

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The team debuted a 14-minute sequence from Dark Phoenix which shows the X-Men’s trip to space and how Turner’s Jean Grey becomes the Phoenix.Check out the first trailer for Dark Phoenix below, and keep reading for a breakdown of the footage:The sequence began with a space shuttle launch -- don’t forget, this film is set in the 1990s. But there’s some kind of mysterious disturbance on NASA’s monitors, and the shuttle crew loses communication with Mission Control. They’re in danger, and back at the X-Mansion Professor Xavier and Beast are watching the news of the space accident. Xavier asks if the upgraded X-Jet can make it up to space, and Beast discourages this notion. But then the president himself calls -- there’s an X-Phone in the Oval Office! A black phone with a big X on it! -- and the decision is made to attempt a rescue.The X-Men suit up, and they’re heroes in this universe. The world is cheering them on as the X-Jet heads to space. Once there, they find that the shuttle is in a deadly spin even while a mysterious orange-crimson cloud slowly approaches it. Cyclops mans a special device that allows him to fire his optic blast out of the ship, slowing the spin in the process. Storm freezes the air that is escaping from the ship. Nightcrawler and Quicksilver bamf over to the shuttle, where they rescue the astronauts and teleport them back to the X-Jet. But the commander is still on the shuttle!With the NASA craft falling apart and the mysterious cloud -- can we just call it the Phoenix cloud and be done with it? -- getting closer to the ships, Mystique says they have to leave. But Xavier telepathically gives the order that they stay, and insists Jean can hold the shuttle together long enough to rescue the last astronaut. She’s bamfed over there, and the commander is saved, but the cloud engulfs the shuttle -- and Jean. She actually directs part of it away from the X-Jet as well and endures/absorbs the entire thing herself -- the team thinks she’s dead at first -- before returning to her colleagues apparently unharmed.The sequence ends with Mystique and Charles having a bit of an argument over the fact that, as far as Mystique is concerned, Charles keeps putting the team in more and more dangerous situations. He sees it as a sacrifice that must be made in order to maintain the current state of mutant-human relations, where mutants are a welcome part of society. Mystique disagrees, and as she storms out of the office, she reminds Charles that it’s always the women saving the men on these missions too. “Maybe you should just change the name of the team to the X-Women!” End of sequence!Kinberg said that it’s films like Logan and the Marvel Studios movies that have allowed the X-Men to start to more fully explore a cosmic story like this.“The climate for these kinds of movies allows for the drama, the intensity … of what a Dark Phoenix story needs to be done,” he said. “And we felt like after the last [movie, Apocalypse] that was huge in scope, we wanted to do that but also tell a story that was intimate. … It’s a story about a character that starts to lose control. It manifests with super powers. … But some of her friends want to save her, some of them want to save the world around her. So it fractures [them].”Added Parker, “I don’t know that I would liken it to any other movie. I guess it would be a weird mix between a family drama and a science fiction story. … The thematics are so rich, so powerful and relatable and important. So with that you feel an obligation to reach deeper into the material. … The table felt like it had been well set to do a kind of deep dive on Dark Phoenix.”Guardians of the Galaxy was also cited as a gateway movie that has enabled the X-Men producers to redo Dark Phoenix.“The other part of this film is that what Marvel Studios has done in terms of making these films extra-terrestrial, taking them into space… allowed for us to tell the Dark Phoenix story not just in [emotional terms] but also to go to outer space and to have alien characters,” he said. “Jessica Chastain plays an alien character and there are scenes in outer space.”Kinberg also confirmed that Jessica Chastain is ultimately the villain of the film. He said she’s “like the veterinarian who tells you that your dog has to be put down. But it’s even worse than that.” Yikes!Dark Phoenix is slated to hit theaters on June 7, 2019. For more from New York Comic Con, check out our favorite cosplay below: