

Cyclops and Storm arrive and save Wolverine & Rogue and bring them to the X-Mansion. Suddenly, both of them are attacked by Sabretooth, a mutant and associate of Magneto. Rogue’s mutation makes her temporarily assume the powers of any mutant she touches while Wolverine possesses superhuman healing abilities, heightened senses, and claws that extend from his knuckles. Meanwhile, Marie (aka Rogue) meets Logan (aka Wolverine) in Canada. Magneto begins his plans to level the playing field between mutants and humans. In Congress, Senator Robert Kelly attempts to pass a “Mutant Registration Act”, which would force mutants to publicly reveal their identities and abilities. 56 years later, a girl named Marie runs away from her home in Meridian, Mississippi after almost killing her boyfriend after kissing him. The boy is soon knocked out cold by one of the guards. When he tries to get back after the gates close, he is restrained by numerous guards who he easily overpowers as they are sliding towards the gate, which is also curling towards them, as though attracted by a magnetic force. The film starts in a concentration camp in Germany-occupied Poland in 1944 as a young boy is separated from his parents upon entry. X-Men was released to positive reviews and was a financial success, spawning the X-Men film series and a reemergence of superhero films. Filming took place from Septemto March 3, 2000, primarily in Toronto. Start dates kept getting pushed back, while Fox decided to move X-Men’s release date from December to July 2000. Singer signed to direct in 1996, with further rewrites by Ed Solomon, Singer, Tom DeSanto, Christopher McQuarrie and David Hayter. Scripts and film treatments were commissioned from Andrew Kevin Walker, John Logan, Joss Whedon and Michael Chabon. The film rights went to 20th Century Fox in 1994.

Magneto intends to mutate world leaders at a United Nations summit with a machine he has built to bring about acceptance of mutantkind, but Xavier realizes this forced mutation will only result in their deaths.ĭevelopment for X-Men began as far back as 1989 with James Cameron and Carolco Pictures. It introduces Wolverine and Rogue into the conflict between Professor Xavier’s X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, led by Magneto.

Directed by Bryan Singer, the film stars Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Famke Janssen, Bruce Davison, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Rebecca Romijn, Ray Park and Tyler Mane. X-Men is a 2000 superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics characters of the same name.
