X-Men: Dark Phoenix underwent many reshoots over its lengthy production, with recent comments suggesting that one of the later reshoots happened because the ending was too similar to Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel, due to the cosmically powerful leading lady.
However, writer and director Simon Kinberg has revealed that it was a different, earlier, Marvel Studios film that made him make the change: 2016's Captain America: Civil War.
"My original ending didn’t have the entire X-Family together the way they are in the film now," he told Gizmodo.
"More than Captain Marvel, you could see a lot of Civil War in that ending. Usually, these big, huge action movies have the climactic moment in the third act.
"I loved the way that Civil War had its big action set piece where everyone’s facing off more towards the end of the second act rather than in the third, so that after that huge battle, you’re left with Winter Soldier, Captain America, and Iron Man.
"It’s this telescoped down view of their raw emotions, and I loved how intimate that was. That’s what I was going for with Dark Phoenix’s ending even though it then might have looked like Captain Marvel for about two minutes."
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Having said all this, our Digital Spy review of Dark Phoenix points out the third act contains "a carbon copy" of a Captain Marvel moment (other reviews of the film weren't glowing either).
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