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"It's a small change" Actually makes the movie 10X better like a boss

6:40 Darwin didn't die, obviously his powers safely removed him from the story. It was the most certain way to escape whatever the writers were planning for him.

Dark Phoenix was a clustervuck

Jean: "I thought you were dead" Emma: "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

"Vuk" is an old slavic name for "Wolf", so she was literally a "Wolf in sheep's clothing".

Dark Phoenix would’ve been a better movie if it had focused on just the drama WITHIN the X-Men. It’d be a nice deviation from the human/mutants conflict that’s permeated the series (maybe the only other tertiary villain could’ve been Mister Sinister; he could’ve been partially what triggered Jean to tap into the Phoenix Force in say a telepathic battle reminiscent of Scanners).

This movie was a giant "Vuk you" to X-Men fans like myself. The score is probably the only redeeming thing about it

When they revealed Jessica's casting I immediately thought she was Emma, was convinced even seeing her in black (emma even started wearing black in the comics) and as you've pointed out, it makes complete sense for it to be Emma. Cant wait for part 2. Btw you may get started on that longer version lol. Im pretty interested in that one too.

This Ema Frost plan sounds very interesting Many villians are always about controlling the world, but very few are about keeping that control in check Seeing what is basically the 1% with a likeable yet questionable plan of keeping peace using manipulation opens a lot of ideas and arguments to talk about

Bruh, youre rewrite is actually how i imagined Emma Frost. Man, I want an Inner Circle influenced storyline . The Gifted was the only one we got.

"This is Selene, the Black Queen. Though you may be taking her place soon." That is *such* an Emma line.

I love Emma frost and the Hellfire club, this rewrite fits soooooooo much better into this x-universe than aliens

We need to start a petition to get you writing for these movies. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!

Simon Kinberg: Tell me how to fix this, Fox! Tell me what to do! Fox: I don't know what to do!

Fox: I don't give a Vuk! Nando: That's the problem...

I really like the conspiracy/intrigue approach. I come back to this a lot in thinking about the “how to” of superhero movies. When you a character or team with amazing powers & skills, the answer isn’t always to pair them up with their villainous equivalent. For example: the JLU season dealing with The Cadmus Project. That super team was not prepared for a completely amoral covert government program. It forced them to think strategically, rather than in terms of straightforward battle. It’s why Winter Soldier worked so well as a Captain America movie. The X-Men’s most memorable battles are often against elements of society rather than ordinary supervillains. It adds to the drama that the X-Men just want to be accepted as part of that society...

Jessica Chastain as Emma Frost would be perfect casting imo

Long story short: The main antagonist in X-Men: First Class should have been Mr. Sinister not Sebastian Shaw. If you've ever gone down the rabbit hole of what Bryan Singer's X-Men 3 would have been then you already know that he planned on using Emma Frost as the antagonist using empathy to manipulate The Phoenix. The story was very similar to what happens in Dark Phoenix so much so that it's easy to imagine Vuk and the D'bari as Emma and the Hellfire Club. I was thinking it in the theatre as I was watching as most X-Men fans were. They miscast Emma in First Class (January Jones was not the original actress cast in the role for the record), then killed her offscreen writing themselves into a hole. There definitely should have been one or two movies before Dark Phoenix establishing relationships and the team but it ultimately should have been the Hellfire Club vs. Lilandra (Jessica Chastain) and the Shi'ar vs. the X-Men fighting over Jean; the Hellfire Club wanting to harness the Phoenix Force, the Shi'ar wanting to destroy it and the X-Men trying to save Jean. Fox blew the story twice so I doubt we'll ever see another live action Dark Phoenix saga in our lifetime.

"It would be kinda like you just make Man of Steel, and then go straight to Batman v Superman" oh... wait...

4:41 Another reason why it doesn't matter that Magneto said Emma was dead, he also said Angel was dead in that scene but Angel was inexplicably alive in X-Men: Apocalypse.

YES! Agree! “Why isn’t this Emma Frost?” My EXACT thoughts!

When are you going to rewrite Shrek 3?

Emma Frost is awesome. I even have the old comics of hers. She's been such a missed opportunity. Selene, happy to hear about her being mentioned.

I gotta admit, when I saw the trailers, I thought Vuk WAS Emma Frost

Emma is actually my favorite X-Man. Super interesting as a redeemed hero. As a villain she was kinda..... eh..... for me.

It’s like going from Avengers to Civil War Or BVS to Justice League

Your story makes more sense! Now I wish that was the movie instead of what we saw.

I genuinely enjoyed Dark Phoenix, and I accepted I'm one of two people who did (the second being the friend who watched it with me in the theater), but this change really elevates the movie for me, and it's a pretty simple change. Can't wait for the second video.

I've been kicking around ideas to "fix" Dark Phoenix as well, and we definitely have some common ground there. My main thrust was similar, but I was going to replace Vuk with Selene, leading a revived Hellfire Club, and that's who Chastain would be playing. But the scenes you outlined were so perfect, I'm warming up to bringing back Emma. However, I would bring back January (I'm a softie and think she deserves another shot), while Chastain would still be Selene.

Instead of the inner circle, it should be called "the board" or something like a board of directors or something like that but it relates to chess.

"Emma Frost is awesome." Yes, yes she is. Would've loved to have seen her in the movie. Not to dump on Jessica Chastain, I like her in other stuff, but I absolutely did NOT like her in this.

I love that he made us think he was going to end with just placing Emma but did a complete 180 and continued the video by telling the story of Dark Phoenix with Emma in it.

love the video as usual, but noice choice in music. i didnt even realize it was playing for so long. it just blended and worked with the video and your voiceover.

They really dropped the ball with emma especially in regards to scott and jean and that whole hoolabaloo. I adore jean grey, even have a tattoo of rachel greys phoenix symbol on my ribcage BUT emma is so so so badass

Would've been cool if they revealed Azazel survived and had a child with Mystique: Kurt. Would've gave him a stake in the conflict too after learning his mother was killed by one of his best friends.

19:05 I think that is why they didn't use her. Why did they need a villain? Because movies have villains? Because Jean needed a place to go to after going to Erick? Because they wanted a big fight at the end? Yeah, Vuk has no Pathos, you can remove her and all the emotion of the movie is still there. She is there for the final fight.

Sophie Turner was potentially AMAZING casting for Jean Grey and it's a real pity she didn't get better movies.

"The franchise ended with Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix" Logan: "am I a joke to you, bub?"

You had me 100% as soon as you put my girl Sage in. Most underrated X-Men character and I need more of her.

I was 100% more enthralled in your story in this video than I was in the movie. +1 subscriber ❤

I absolutely love this and totally thought the same thing. Emma Frost would have made a lot more sense & could have motivated Jean a lot more organically. It would have been nice for January Jones to get a meatier role and it would make perfect sense that she could have faked her death - a lot more sense than her actually dying, tbh. Loved the conversation on telepathy, beautifully written.

Great edit, during all the trailers I always assumed it was Emma Frost. Also it’s weird to me that Emma’s clothes seemingly disappear when she turns diamond in First Class

The one thing the Dark Phoenix movies are missing is The Dark Pheonix. Make the white haired alien the Dark Phoenix entity as a personality.

I am legitimately jealous of your writing ability and creativity. Keep it up, great vids.

No one: Nando: not to nitpick... *Proceeds to nitpick...

this was phenomenal, i’ve been waiting for the video for so long 🥺

Awesome video and awesome cliffhanger, can't wait for the second part

Thank you for this series. I really really tried to like the dark phoenix because I do like the actors and setting. But it wasted a lot of potential, which you are now working on showing! 😍

I honestly thought Vuk was Mr. Sinister in female form until the alien thing was revealed. Mr. Sinister is pretty cool, so I never understood why they slept on him. At least now Marvel can hopefully use him in the future whenever X-men stuff comes into play.

Idk how you do it but whenever you propose some small changement like that it always sounds so amazing. Emma Frost as a villain sounds just so cool ? I wish the movie would have been like that !

5:36 aww missed opportunity to say "Vuk gives no Vuks about having a personality"

I'm not even halfway done with this video and you ALREADY perfected the movie for me 🤣 very well done mate

“It hurt me that my favorite franchise ended with apocalypse and dark phoenix” Logan: am I a joke to you?

I love how you made both this and Apocalypse way better by one small change

Wow! Your reasoning for the secondary mutation is pretty awesome! Similar to how in Naruto, the Mangekyou Sharingan is different for each Uchiha because it's a manifestation of their inner pain and struggle

I am surprised and glad to hear you like the X Men so much, cant wait to see pther rewrites. Cheers mate

Can anyone help me identify the piano music playing in the background at 13:36 ? What is the name of the piece?

What's the song that starts at 12:09 I couldn't find it on epedemic sound

I just realized Dark Phoenix is pretty much the only super hero movie I haven't seen in like 10 years. And I'm content with that.

this was incredible but i NEED a full rewrite, thank you:)

I need to take a tequila shot everytime Nandos says Vuk in this video🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Emma Frost is definitely the arch-nemesis of Jean Grey

One question. Where did you get that music for the scene between Emma and Jean?

Have I told you that I really love your work? Yup. But I REALLY LOVE YOUR WORK! Great ideas - though I think we can do better than JC on the casting for Emma Frost. Can't wait for part II.

What is the piano piece playing in the background?

This "small" change already makes the movie 100 times better. I would've gone for Psylocke as one of the knights instead of Spitfire though

In the comics, the D'bari are one of the many races whose planet was destroyed by the Phoenix Force but other than that, they seem really different to what we saw in the movie. I mean Vuk's claim to fame seems to be that one time he(yes, he) turned most of the Avengers to stone. So...why use them in the first place? If they're going to be so significantly changed, why not any of the other hordes of alien races that have closer ties to the X-Men if they wanted to go the whole alien route?

Emma didn't have her secondary mutation during the time of The Phoenix Saga (the first story). Or, even if you keep her into the Dark Phoenix Saga. Also, her powers weren't (at the time) on the level of the Professor or Jean. Neither were Masterminds. But, he was using a device to boost them. And space is very important to both stories. Space is where we encounter the Phoenix Force for the first time. It's in space that Phoenix commits her great crime of murdering an entire planet. The real problem of these two tellings of these two Sagas; is the fact that they are Sagas; and they're trying to force these two epics into a singular movies that tells one story.

When I saw the alien headquarters in NY the first time I saw the movie, I audibly gasped because I automatically thought it WAS the Hellfire Club and things were about to get awesome.... then I remembered that they'd already died

This video articulated everything I have been feeling since the movie came out. Some amazing concept art of the hellfire club was released today, suggesting that your theory is totally on point.

I definitely thought Poochy’s inclusion in Days of Future Past was the highlight of that movie. Thank you for acknowledging it.

Hey Nando! Great Video. Just one suggestion, If a video is part of a 2 videos series, then please mention it in the title. It would be better to watch it together. Cheers!

Not using the White Queen angle is a complete loss on the part of Fox.

I can dig this change to the story... But where’s the last episode of the Defenders rewrite? You’re leaving me in suspense!

I need to know more about that cable knit sweater you're sporting, Nando. I also loved Knives Out.

Funny I ran across this video because I saw on comicbookmovie.com a new version of the Hellfire Club was going to be in this film. The members included Emma, Shinobi Shaw, Leland, Red Lotus Gang and I think someone else. However I like your fixes what I would add is they go with the ultimate storyline and that Jean is the host for the Phoenix god that has risen over the millennia in a certain telepath. Thus they could’ve introduced the Church of Shi’ar, Lilandra and a few members of the Imperial Guard.

Your Fat Thor recap was not only hilarious but a great way to argue that Dark Phoenix and Thor 2 being the same movie

i subscribed to your channel halfway through this video. thank you for this idea

I know a lot people didn’t like Jones as this role but I actually loved her!

This is a really fun movie pitch! love it Nando!

Dude, there's NO fixing the Dark Phoenix. XD

Man... I can't keep watching your videos. They just make me lament that your version won't ever exist, and it would be awesome if they could.

One minute into the video and i'm already like, "Dark Phoenix was so bad that even Nando says he can't fix it all the way through, geez".

If Jessica Chastain’s performance was flat, what does that make January Jones’ First Class performance?

Nando what weapon would you choose for the zombie apocalypse?

I think we could easily imagine this as our head-cannon, except for the inclusion of Roberto DeCosta in the Hellfire Club. He’s a young man who ends up helping the future timeline in DOFP and gets locked up at Essex Corps. in The New Mutants

When I saw the trailer I legitimately thought that Vuk was Emma Frost.

Another easy way to explain Emma Frost not aging is to do what they did in Old Man Logan. In that she did age, but since she could make illusions she still appears young

Jessica Chastain's performance being flat isn't her fault. She did whatever was told her. Otherwise, we ALLLL know how great of an actor she is.

what frustrates me is we were SO close to getting the hellfire club and emma frost in dark phoenix but the fox/disney deal ruined it.

My real issue with the film is why in 1992 is Professor X wearing a model of Rolex watch, a Milgauss 116400GV, that wasn’t designed and produced till 2007 25 years later!?!? Just another one for the X Men time continuity errors list I guess.

Nando: Says Dark Phoenix is unfixable. Also Nando : Fixes entire X men Series with one change.

16:49 u could have them playing chess and her noding to her queen chess piece saying its a higher power because of well its power{kinda like that}u could say she invites her to play chess to almost clear her mind or get her mind off of wat happend making her focus on their conversation more intensly

Brilliantly done!

Nando rocking the Knives Out sweater

Gag idea: Vuk is talking with someone who speaks in simple, broken english (Think Caveman speak) Vuk: My name is Vuk Caveman: Vuk..........You?

How about a Dark Phoenix rewrite? - Dave Sandberg

When I saw the trailers I assumed that it Emma Frost. Disappointed when it turned out not to be. I did kinda enjoy the film though

So you're essentially recounting the basic first leg of the Phoenix Saga in the comics when Jean is being manipulated by the Hellfire Club. And you're right. That would've been a better movie