I believe the budget was much less...

Jun 21, 2019 22:32:42 GMT Mutant 77 said:

What was the production budget for this before the reshoots? Because the movie just doesn't look very expensive, it doesn't look like it had a budget of 200 million, the movie looks small and small scaled. Genosha, the mansion, the buildings they have used shouldn't take a lot of money.

While the previous movies had Cerebro, the subbasement, X-Jet, helicopters. The only thing really new is the space setting which lasted like 5 minutes. Most of the characters are in casual clothing as well. The movie isn't vfx heavy compare to X3.

I think if you look at the cast it does look very expensive, I doubt you were getting Lawrence for less than 8 figures this time out, McAvoy & Fassbender maybe around the same number, easy 7 figures for Hoult, Turner, Chastain & Evan Peters maybe more if re-shoots exceeded an agreed upon time permitted for them.

Also comparing it to last stand, given inflation Last Stand would be a $275m budget today, so yeah they spent like the equivalent of $75m more on Last Stand than Dark Phoenix, and depending on how much they had to redo the movie that ups the cost whilst reducing the quality meaning instead of lots of VFX through out they would be better suited using it more as needed instead of just going ah look pretty like sometimes blockbusters will do.