First Look at Sophie Turner as Dark Phoenix!

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X-Men: Apocalypse benefitted from the shared universe’s most awesome tease at the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past, but it nevertheless failed to rise to fans’ expectations. However, Bryan Singer's latest X-Men movie laid the foundation for the adaptation of a beloved comic book storyline. Simon Kinberg took a chance, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix will be released in 2018!

Entertainment Weekly recently gave us our first look at Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) in full Dark Phoenix mode. In addition, director Simon Kinberg provided some details about the film’s plot. Check out Sophie Turner as Phoenix below!

James McAvoy recently remarked that Dark Phoenix is the most emotional X-Men film he’s done. Turner added that the movie will focus on her character’s relationship with Professor X.

Set in 1992, about 10 years after the events of last year's X-Men: Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix opens with the X-Men, including Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and Quicksilver (Evan Peters), in a new, unexpected role: national heroes. Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) even lands on the cover of Time magazine. But his growing ego puts the team at risk.

“Pride is starting to get the better of him, and he is pushing the X-Men into more extreme missions,” Kinberg says. After they're dispatched to space for a rescue mission, a solar flare hits the X-Jet, and the surge of energy ignites a malevolent and power-hungry new force within Jean (Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner) – the Phoenix.

That’s not all! Entertainment Weekly also gave us our first look at Jessica Chastain's mysterious villain, who was widely believed to be Lilandra, the Empress of the Shi'ar Empire. But the actress denied that she’d play Lilandra, and EW confirmed that her character was a shapeshifter. Is she a Skrull? What do you think?