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Jean & Cyclops Relationship is 'Huge Part' of X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Speaking in an interview with EW, Kinberg said that the Cyclops/Jean Grey dynamic is the central relationship that will hold Dark Phoenix together. Cyclops fights to save Jean every step of the way in the comics and it seems that the film may be no different – provided Scott isn’t the major character rumored to die. Kinberg said “that relationship, his being willing to kill or die for her, is a huge part of the emotional core of the movie. It also makes Scott start to have to become a leader.”
The EW story also says that Cyclops is “the one mutant who never wavers from Team Jean” in Dark Phoenix. His inevitable thrust into a leadership role suggests that he may not be getting as much help as he did in the comics from Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), who at one point keeps the Dark Phoenix suppressed within Jean using his psychic powers
Scott never loses sight of his love for Jean and is a first-hand witness to her ultimate self-sacrifice at the end of the Dark Phoenix Saga comic, so it sounds unlikely that he would be killed off at any point before that. The film reportedly includes a massive twist halfway through that could change the course of the franchise, and it’s unclear which direction they will take with that. Unless 21st Century Fox is setting people up for a swerve, the Cyclops/Jean Grey relationship sounds too important to destroy at the midway point – especially after the overwhelming distaste for the way X-Men: The Last Stand originally handled Scott’s death. In this respect, it appears that the makers of Dark Phoenix are trying to stay faithful to the source material, and hopefully do it justice.