Episode 39: Dark Phoenix and X-Men (featuring Adam Spedding and Sinead Fitzgerald)

The X-Men universe. Special guests Sinead Fitzgerald and Adam Spedding join Jeremy Downing and William Chen to discuss X-Men, Dark Phoenix and all the X-Men films in between. Discussion starts with ripping into Dark Phoenix and discussing how the original X-Men film established the world. We then work our way through the other X-Men films, starting with X-Men: Days of Future Past and the moving through X-Men: First Class, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, Logan, X-Men: Apocalypse, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, Deadpool and Deadpool 2. We talk about the ageing of various characters in the films, including the CGI de-ageing processes of the new Marvel films and how many characters don't seem to age in the X-Men timeline. We talk about how the series and the genre has developed over the past twenty years, and what that might mean for the X-Men in the future. We discuss the various fantastic opening sequences and it being one of the strongest aspects of the films.