In 2011 they restarted the saga with the movie X-Men: First Class, starring Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Nicholas Hoult. They've all appeared in Marvel's mutant movies since then. The actress who gives life to Mystica put a condition to return to X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
In a recent interview, director Simon Kinberg revealed that they had always written drafts of the script hoping that the actors would return. The director and producer knew that they would return because they had told him that they would as long as he directed it.
"We assumed that the main cast of X-Men: First Class, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Nicholas Hoult, would return for this film. It was the actors who approached me to direct the next installment in the saga. Jennifer especially said that she would not come back for another movie unless I directed it. So, I had a lot of support from them."
Simon Kinberg always knew that it would be the last film for these characters before they returned to Disney.
“I feel like the notion that this is the last chapter in this cycle of X-Men movies is tied for a lot of people, at least in the industry, to the Disney-Fox merger. In truth, when I sat down to write this movie, which was three years ago, I thought of it as the culmination of this cycle of X-Men movies."
The movie X-Men: Dark Phoenix will be released on June 7, 2019. We will see again Sophie Turner (Jean Grey), Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy (Professor X), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystica), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Tye Sheridan (Cyclops), Alexandra Shipp (Storm), and Kodi Smit-McPhee (Nightcrawler).
The story will focus on how Jean Gray acquires a great power
that will make her the most dangerous mutant of all time. Her friends and
classmates must stop her before she destroys everything.
