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Jean Grey (film character)
Jean Grey is a fictional character featured in seven films in the X-Men film series, starting with X-Men (2000) and ending with Dark Phoenix (2019), based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Jean was portrayed by Dutch actress Famke Janssen in five films, with "Jean" in The Wolverine (2013) being a posthumous hallucination in Logan's head and her appearance in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) being a brief flashforward scene. For X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Jean was recast with English actress Sophie Turner, who would reprise her role in Dark Phoenix.
X-Men: The Last Stand and Dark Phoenix each have a flashback sequence for Jean; because of the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past, these two flashbacks take place in two different realities.
In the original timeline, Jean is visited by Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Erik Lehnsherr (Ian McKellen) after her parents had been concerned about what they believed to be a type of "illness" in their daughter. The girl is shown levitating multiple cars and other objects with her telekinetic powers and the two elder mutants, still friends at the time, invite Jean to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. The professor later explains that while she was young, he put psychic dampers on her mind to help control a supposed "dark side" within her subconscious, preventing her powers from spiraling out of control and hurting others and herself.
In the second timeline, Jean is in a car with her parents, causing a car crash with her out-of-control mental powers, killing her mother and leaving her father afraid of his own daughter and refusing to see her later on; Jean is led to believe that her father also died in the crash. She is approached by Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), who tries to help the troubled girl, inviting her to enroll in his school.
Throughout the films X-Men (2000), X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand, Jean serves as a member of the X-Men until she was possessed by the Phoenix Force and eventually killed by Wolverine. Additionally, she makes minor appearances in The Wolverine, in which his guilt over killing her haunts the titular character, and X-Men: Days of Future Past, in which she was revived after the X-Men averted a post-apocalyptic future. In the films X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, the second incarnation of Grey (portrayed by Sophie Turner) joins the X-Men to fight Apocalypse, before sacrificing herself to use the Phoenix Force's power to defeat the D'Bari. In the film's epilogue, her return is foreshadowed by the Phoenix Force soaring in the distant sky.
The casting call for the first X-Men film specifies Jean Grey's character as a "Beautiful and intelligent scientist. Also an X-Man. She has telepathic and telekinetic powers. Engaged to Cyclops and yearned for by Wolverine. Late 20s". Reports from pre-production in 1999 indicated that Jean being written to be a scientist - which she is not in the comics - was due to Beast, the team's resident scientist, originally being part of the script but dropped due to budget concerns. Since director Bryan Singer had gone with a younger, teenage portrayal of Rogue (Anna Paquin), he felt that he wanted a more mature Jean in contrast.
He also noted that Jean Grey would have committed suicide by the end, which was redundant with the ending of X2. The "Dark Phoenix" storyline was thus relegated to a secondary substory in The Last Stand. Simon Kinberg was disappointed by this outcome, calling the Dark Phoenix Saga "the ultimate X-Men story" and compared reducing it to a secondary subplot to sidelining the Book of Genesis chapter from the Bible. At one point, Matthew Vaughn (the original director of The Last Stand before Brett Ratner took over) wanted Wolverine to carry Leech with him to Jean to depower her; Penn felt that this was a cop-out and Jean had to pay for her crimes, and depowering her would also not fix her broken state of mind.
The 2019 Dark Phoenix film was originally meant to be a two-part storyline, one film named only Phoenix and then Dark Phoenix as its sequel. However, the producers were unhappy with the outcome of X-Men: Apocalypse and cancelled the second sequel, forcing Simon Kinberg to compress his storyline into one film. His original ending had Jean dying at the end, but this ending was poorly received with test audiences for the film and was changed to a more hopeful outcome.
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Jean Grey (film character)
Jean Grey is a fictional character featured in seven films in the X-Men film series, starting with X-Men (2000) and ending with Dark Phoenix (2019), based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Jean was portrayed by Dutch actress Famke Janssen in five films, with "Jean" in The Wolverine (2013) being a posthumous hallucination in Logan's head and her appearance in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) being a brief flashforward scene. For X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Jean was recast with English actress Sophie Turner, who would reprise her role in Dark Phoenix.
X-Men: The Last Stand and Dark Phoenix each have a flashback sequence for Jean; because of the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past, these two flashbacks take place in two different realities.
In the original timeline, Jean is visited by Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Erik Lehnsherr (Ian McKellen) after her parents had been concerned about what they believed to be a type of "illness" in their daughter. The girl is shown levitating multiple cars and other objects with her telekinetic powers and the two elder mutants, still friends at the time, invite Jean to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. The professor later explains that while she was young, he put psychic dampers on her mind to help control a supposed "dark side" within her subconscious, preventing her powers from spiraling out of control and hurting others and herself.
In the second timeline, Jean is in a car with her parents, causing a car crash with her out-of-control mental powers, killing her mother and leaving her father afraid of his own daughter and refusing to see her later on; Jean is led to believe that her father also died in the crash. She is approached by Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), who tries to help the troubled girl, inviting her to enroll in his school.
Throughout the films X-Men (2000), X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand, Jean serves as a member of the X-Men until she was possessed by the Phoenix Force and eventually killed by Wolverine. Additionally, she makes minor appearances in The Wolverine, in which his guilt over killing her haunts the titular character, and X-Men: Days of Future Past, in which she was revived after the X-Men averted a post-apocalyptic future. In the films X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, the second incarnation of Grey (portrayed by Sophie Turner) joins the X-Men to fight Apocalypse, before sacrificing herself to use the Phoenix Force's power to defeat the D'Bari. In the film's epilogue, her return is foreshadowed by the Phoenix Force soaring in the distant sky.
The casting call for the first X-Men film specifies Jean Grey's character as a "Beautiful and intelligent scientist. Also an X-Man. She has telepathic and telekinetic powers. Engaged to Cyclops and yearned for by Wolverine. Late 20s". Reports from pre-production in 1999 indicated that Jean being written to be a scientist - which she is not in the comics - was due to Beast, the team's resident scientist, originally being part of the script but dropped due to budget concerns. Since director Bryan Singer had gone with a younger, teenage portrayal of Rogue (Anna Paquin), he felt that he wanted a more mature Jean in contrast.
He also noted that Jean Grey would have committed suicide by the end, which was redundant with the ending of X2. The "Dark Phoenix" storyline was thus relegated to a secondary substory in The Last Stand. Simon Kinberg was disappointed by this outcome, calling the Dark Phoenix Saga "the ultimate X-Men story" and compared reducing it to a secondary subplot to sidelining the Book of Genesis chapter from the Bible. At one point, Matthew Vaughn (the original director of The Last Stand before Brett Ratner took over) wanted Wolverine to carry Leech with him to Jean to depower her; Penn felt that this was a cop-out and Jean had to pay for her crimes, and depowering her would also not fix her broken state of mind.
The 2019 Dark Phoenix film was originally meant to be a two-part storyline, one film named only Phoenix and then Dark Phoenix as its sequel. However, the producers were unhappy with the outcome of X-Men: Apocalypse and cancelled the second sequel, forcing Simon Kinberg to compress his storyline into one film. His original ending had Jean dying at the end, but this ending was poorly received with test audiences for the film and was changed to a more hopeful outcome.