It’s Magneto’s levitating machine guns vs the Dark Phoenix in new trailer

Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and his X-Men try to save Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) in second trailer for 20th Century Fox's Dark Phoenix.

Not even Magneto's levitating machine guns can stop Sophie Turner's Dark Phoenix in the latest trailer for the latest installment in the rebooted X-Men franchise. The Game of Thrones star plays Jean Grey, a powerful psychic and telekinetic mutant who finds herself succumbing to a dark entity called the Dark Phoenix, pitting her against her former colleagues.

(Some spoilers for The X-men franchise below.)

Jean's transformation is one of the classic storylines in The X-Men comics canon, and we've seen it on the big screen before, in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). That's when Famke Janssen's Jean Grey took out two key X-Men, allied herself with Magneto, and destroyed an entire military battalion before someone finally managed to stop her. Those are pretty big shoes to fill, and we'll see if Turner is up to the challenge.

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