re: X-Men Dark Phoenix trailer drops tonight

X-Men First Class was great and it was probably the best Marvel movie of 2011. Days of Future Past was phenomenal and you can make won argument that it was the best Marvel movie of 2014, which is saying something. Apocalypse was definitely the weakest of the three, but it was still a quality movie. I love the work that Evans and Downey have done, but Fassbender and McAvoy is the best pairing Marvel has going right now.

As for Lilandra, the strong spec/rumors were that Jessica Chastain was going to be playing her and that the Shi'ar Empire would be in the movie and it would have a space heavy plot. Now with the reshoots it's said that most of that has been trimmed out and any scenes that would have set the franchise moving forward would be removed and that the reshoots were mainly Earth scenes and to provide closure.

How much of that is true remains to be seen. As for the screening rumors, always take those with a massive grain of salt. What I really hate about those is they really limit the pool of who they select for their screenings (mainly Los Angeles and occasionally New York). Screeners were meh towards the original cut of Justice League but loved the theatrical cut and that was a jumbled mess. Everything that's come out since has shown that Snyder's cut would have been a helluva lot better and shown a clear direction for the future of the DCEU, even if he was replaced, great seeds were planted for the forseeable future. Then the screenings happen, Justice League got meh reviews, was meh, and the box office was what it was.