X2 (film)
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| Directed by | Bryan Singer |
| Produced by | Stan Lee Tom DeSanto Avi Arad Bryan Singer Ralph Winter Lauren Shuler Donner |
| Written by | Comic Book: Stan Lee Jack Kirby Story: David Hayter Bryan Singer Zak Penn Screenplay: Michael Dougherty Dan Harris David Hayter |
| Starring | Patrick Stewart Hugh Jackman Ian McKellen Halle Berry Rebecca Romijn-Stamos Famke Janssen James Marsden Brian Cox Alan Cumming Bruce Davison Anna Paquin |
| Music by | John Ottman |
| Cinematography | Newton Thomas Sigel |
| Editing by | John Ottman Elliot Graham |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | May 2, 2003 |
| Running time | 133 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $110 million |
| Preceded by | X-Men |
| Followed by | X-Men: The Last Stand |
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X2 is an action movie, first released in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2003, and in the United States on May 2, 2003. It is also called variously in promotional materials X2: X-Men United, X-Men 2: X-Men United and X-Men 2. The film is the second part of the trilogy; following X-Men (2000), and preceding X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). It was directed by Bryan Singer, and starred an ensemble cast including Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Rebecca Romijn, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Shawn Ashmore, Kelly Hu and Alan Cumming.
The film is loosely based on the 1982 X-Men graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills. In the film, William Stryker is a high-ranking army colonel who leads an assault into Professor Xavier's school to build his own version of Xavier's mutant-tracking computer Cerebro in order to destroy every mutant on Earth. The X-Men are forced to ally with Magneto and Mystique to defeat Stryker. X2, which introduced Nightcrawler to filmgoers, surpassed the initial film at the box office, earning approx. $215 million in North America compared to $157.3 million for X-Men, making the sequel one of the top ten movies of 2003.
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[edit] Plot
The opening scene shows a mutant by the name of Nightcrawler attempting an assassination of the President of the United States. After a lengthy battle with Secret Service agents, he is shot and disappears, leaving behind a knife with a tag that reads "Mutant Freedom Now!"
Wolverine finally reaches Alkali Lake, the facility used for experiments on mutants like him. He finds nothing but an empty dam. Meanwhile, the mutants of "Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters" visit a museum. Jean Grey is confronted by Cyclops after she demonstrates her lack of focus. She confesses to him that she has been having bad feelings about the future. In the food court, Iceman, Rogue and Pyro engage in an altercation with two other young men. After Pyro sets one of the boys' clothes on fire and Iceman extinguishes him, everyone in the museum freezes as if time has stopped. Only the mutants are unaffected. Professor Xavier wheels in, unamused by the situation, lectures Pyro on "showing off" and decides that it is time to leave.
Wolverine reappears at the School for the Gifted and is immediately asked to "babysit" the children of the school. After some difficulty, Professor Xavier locates Nightcrawler with Cerebro and sends Storm and Jean to retrieve him. They find Nightcrawler in a church and he willingly comes along with them, explaining that the entire time he was in the White House, he had no control over his actions. Meanwhile, Cyclops and Professor X visit Magneto in his plastic prison to see if he had any part in the attack on the President. While reading Magneto's thoughts, Professor X discovers that a covert government operative, William Stryker, has been extracting information from Magneto. During their conversation, a trap is sprung and Cyclops and Professor X are captured.
Wolverine awakens to nightmares of his first memories and heads to the kitchen. While conversing with Iceman, a military invasion of the school begins. The soldiers attempt to sedate every mutant they find with tranquilizer guns. A soldier tries to capture Iceman in the kitchen, but Wolverine sneaks up behind him; as they grapple the soldier tries to shoot Wolverine with a real gun but only succeeds in emptying his automatic rifle's clip into a wall, before Wolverine stabs him through the chest. The noise of this shooting rouses Siryn, who sees more soldiers entering her own room and wakes everybody else up with one of her sonic screams. Colossus and Wolverine round up a number of the students. Wolverine stays behind to confront the attackers, but is shocked to discover that they are being led by William Stryker. Stryker, himself surprised to see Wolverine in the mansion, reveals that he knows much about Wolverine and wishes for him to come with the military to discuss it. Before Wolverine answers, Iceman is able to create an impenetrable wall of ice between them. The kids persuade Wolverine to come with them, to protect them.
In the meantime, Mystique has been posing as Senator Robert Kelly and also Stryker's assistant Yuriko Oyama in order to obtain information about Magneto's prison. At a bar she eventually manages to trick one of his security guards and drugs him, and injects something into him. When the guard later arrives at the prison, Magneto extracts the contents of Mystique's injection; Mystique had injected him with liquid iron and Magneto is able to create small balls of metal, which he uses to destroy his prison and escape.
Wolverine and the kids (Pyro, Iceman and Rogue) head to Iceman's home in Boston. Iceman gives Rogue some of his mother's clothes, which she can wear instead of her nightdress. As she removes her dress, Iceman looks away, but can't help turning back. Pyro looks at the family pictures with a hint of resentment, indicating he had probably come from a dysfunctional home. When Rogue has changed clothes, Iceman kisses her, after saying that "you won't hurt me" (due to the fact that she can kill people by touching them). The first kiss only results in Rogue absorbing Iceman's freezing powers. But when they share a longer and more passionate kiss, Iceman's life starts leaving him. After an awkward meeting between his parents and Wolverine, Iceman decides to tell his parents (who believe he has been going to a boarding school) that he is a mutant. His parents are shocked to learn the truth, especially when their son demonstrates his power by freezing a cup of tea. During the discussion, Iceman's disgruntled brother runs upstairs and calls the police, telling them that mutants are holding his family hostage. Wolverine meanwhile receives a call from Storm who decides to come and pick them up.
Just as the group leaves, the police arrive and draw their weapons on Wolverine and his younger companions. A police officer mistakes Wolverine's claws for knives and orders him to drop them. When Wolverine tries to explain and sheathes his claws, the officer shoots Wolverine in the head. Pyro becomes enraged and begins using his flame-controlling powers to attack the officers and destroy their cars. Just before his attack turns deadly, Rogue grabs hold of him with her bare hand. Pyro falls to the ground, drained of his powers, which Rogue then uses to put the fires out. The X-Jet arrives to pick them all up, and Wolverine, now fully recovered thanks to his adamantium skull and healing factor, stands up and the bullet falls out.
During the flight, the X-Jet is targeted by two Air Force fighter jets who attempt to force a landing. After the X-Jet refuses to land, the pilots fire missiles. Storm creates a number of tornadoes in order to lose the aircraft. One plane is unable to maintain control and ejects. The other is able to fire two missiles before ejecting. Storm attempts evasive maneuvers, but quickly loses distance. Jean uses her powers at an unnaturally high level and is able to destroy one of the missiles. Unfortunately the other detonates directly behind the jet, rupturing the fuselage. In the ensuing depressurization, Rogue is pulled out of her seat and out into a free fall. Nightcrawler teleports outside the jet to grab Rogue, then teleports back in, saving her life. The jet, still en route to a crash landing, is stopped at the last moment by Magneto, who is standing on the ground.
Magneto has learned that Stryker orchestrated the attack on the President in order to gain approval to attack the school and has been experimenting on mutants (including Nightcrawler) at a secret base. Jean Grey reads Nightcrawler's mind and determines that Stryker's base is located at Alkali Lake. When Wolverine claims that there is nothing at Alkali Lake, Jean insists that the base is inside the dam. Stryker is able to control mutants with a powerful drug that he has used on Nightcrawler, Magneto, and a number of other mutants, including Lady Deathstrike. He has also stolen enough equipment from Xavier's own Cerebro unit to build a second Cerebro and plans to use Professor X to kill all of the mutants in the world. The X-Men and Magneto join together to stop Stryker. On the way to Alkali Lake, Pyro has a conversation with Magneto about how he's perceived as "the bad guy". When he demonstrates his fire-manipulating abilities, Magneto simply says. "You are a god among insects, never let anyone tell you different."
Stryker gains control over Professor Xavier through his son, Jason Stryker (a former student of the professor), who is able to project powerful visions in the mind, blinding a person to reality. Jason (in the form of a young girl) instructs Professor X to use Cerebro to find all existing mutants and kill them. Magneto, Mystique, and the remaining X-Men stage their assault on the facility, by having Mystique infiltrate disguised as Wolverine. Stryker orders his guards to let "Wolverine" in, as he believes his experiment has finally decided to come home. Somehow Mystique's disguise doesn't fool Colonel Stryker. Mystique quickly incapacitates the soldiers and manages to take control of the control room, opening up the main gates so that the X-Men can enter the Alkali Lake Facility. Storm and Nightcrawler pair off, searching for the kidnapped students. Jean Grey joins Magneto and Mystique in order to keep an eye on them as they attempt to bring Professor Xavier back to his senses and rescue him. On their way, they are attacked by a brainwashed Cyclops. Jean stands her ground against Cyclops in order to buy Magneto enough time to get to Dark Cerebro and stop the coming mutant annihilation. Jean withstands Cyclops' optic blast, reflecting it again at an extremely high level (another partial manifestation of the Phoenix) and both are propelled backwards, causing damage to the generators that keep the dam from collapsing. The destruction of the base is unstoppable.
Wolverine runs off on his own to look for Stryker. He finds Stryker in an adamantium smelting room along with Lady Deathstrike. After Stryker leaves, Wolverine attempts to follow him but is attacked by Deathstrike. A battle of blades ensues, which results in Wolverine pumping Deathstrike full of molten adamantium metal, killing her. Wolverine finds Stryker on a landing pad and stabs him in the stomach. Stryker attempts to bargain with Wolverine, telling him that if he comes with him he can tell him about his past. Wolverine refuses and straps the wounded Stryker to the helicopter wheel, saying that if the X-Men die, Stryker will too.
Magneto breaks into the new Cerebro and uses Mystique, disguised as Stryker, to convince Jason of a "change of plans" - to kill all humans. Magneto and Mystique escape on the helicopter. As they're leaving they see Pyro staring back at them and he decides to join them. The X-Men save Professor X and stop the killing process, but the dam is falling apart. As the team prepare to leave, Wolverine revisits Stryker and gets rid of his mutant tag. A malfunction aboard the X-Jet prevents it from taking off and the dam finally bursts. The flood gets stronger, drowning Stryker. Jean Grey leaves the jet, uses her heightened powers to stop the onrushing flood, and raises the jet at the same time, all the while surrounded by a flaming energy field (the Phoenix fully manifesting itself). Nightcrawler attempts to grab her but she chooses to stay. She raises the jet just high enough for it to take off as the water floods over her. Cyclops and Wolverine both mourn Jean's death.
Back at the White House, the President prepares to address the country on the perceived mutant threat. Just as he begins his speech, the lights flicker and everyone in the room freezes except for himself. The X-Men appear before him and Rogue gives him the files from Stryker's private offices while Professor X tells him about the events of the last few days, saying that in the files some humans and mutants tried to start a war and there have been casualties on both sides. Then Professor X gives him an ultimatum: either humans and mutants work together to build peace, or they will destroy each other through war. The mutants leave in the same manner they entered. As everyone else in the room returns to motion, the shocked President looks at the files and is uncertain whether to continue his speech.
The film ends with a voiceover by Jean Grey, identical to the voice-over at the start of the initial film, on the process of evolution. The camera floats over Alkali Lake, showing a vague but ominous shape in the water surface, the shape of a burning bird, the Phoenix.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Inspiration
The basic story elements, involving Stryker's plot to use Xavier's powers against all mutants, and the X-Men's resulting alliance with Magneto, are loosely adapted from the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont. In that story, Stryker has a military background, but is currently a religious leader whose wife gave birth to an obviously mutant infant. In a fit of rage, he killed them both and decided that he had been chosen by God to destroy mutants. In the film, his military background is moved to the foreground, and the religious aspect of the character is eliminated. Instead of killing his wife and son in childbirth, the Stryker of the film sends his son (loosely based on the character Mastermind from the comics) to Xavier to be cured of his mutation. Unable to change his mutation, and resentful of his parents, he began tormenting his mother by projecting nightmarish images into her mind, causing her to commit suicide by drilling a hole into her head. Stryker responded by giving his son a lobotomy, and extracting his brain fluid, which he now uses to control other mutants.
Bryan Singer credited The Empire Strikes Back and The Wrath of Khan as his influences on this film. The latter film also features a voice-over at the end from a dead character, hinting at their resurrection in the next film.
[edit] Links to the Marvel Universe
In the scene where Mystique accesses Stryker's computer for the location of Magneto's cell, a list of mutants can be seen, many of which are from the comic books, including Remy LeBeau (Gambit), the Guthrie children Sam (Cannonball) and Paige (Husk), Kevin MacTaggert (Proteus, the son of Moira MacTaggert), Jamie Madrox (Multiple Man), the Maximoff children Wanda (Scarlet Witch) and Pietro (Quicksilver) (Magneto's offspring in the comics), Xi'an Coy Mahn (Karma) and Danielle Moonstar (Moonstar); the latter two are part of the New Mutants group of the X-Men. Of these, only Multiple Man appears in any of the films, playing a small role in X-Men: The Last Stand. Also on the list was Arthur Maddicks, a Morlock in the comics; it is generally assumed that the child with the forked tongue, called 'Artie' by Storm is Arthur Maddicks in the film's universe.
Also in that scene, Mystique sees a computer file on Omega Red; there is a folder called Franklin Richards, the mutant son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm of the Fantastic Four; a folder on Project Wideawake, an operation that called for the construction of giant, mutant-hunting robots known as Sentinels; a folder on Muir Island (Moira MacTaggert later plays a minor role in the third film) and a folder on Gamma Flight, assumingly a play on Alpha Flight or its junior level training squad bearing that name. In the scene where Mystique confronts the guard to Magneto's plastic cell in a bar, a news broadcast is on the TV by the bar. It shows an interview with a Dr. Hank McCoy, who in the comics is the X-Men member Beast, debating Dr. Sebastian Shaw, the Black King of the Hellfire Club.
In the scene where William Stryker's troops raid Charles Xaiver's school for mutants, the panicked students include Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat), Theresa Rourke Cassidy (Siryn), and Piotr Rasputin (Colossus). Theresa is the girl whose blood-curdling scream wakes everyone up, and Kitty is the girl who becomes intangible, falls through the bed, and jumps through several guards. Colossus is the muscled student whose body becomes covered in an organic steel armor.
In the lab where Wolverine's adamantium skeleton was implanted, there are X-rays on the wall; one appears to depict a person's back with a wing. This may have been intended as a reference to a comics storyline in which the X-Man Angel lost his wings and was implanted with metal ones; however, the appearance of Angel with his feathered wings in X-Men: The Last Stand contradicts this minor detail. There are also X-rays of one of Deathstrike's forearms and hands, with her talons retracted and extended.
A bit more obvious amount of foreshadowing of the third movie is used. Whenever Jean's powers became stronger than usual, she was often depicted as glowing with fire, a sign of the Phoenix. The ending shot over the Alkali Lake shows the image of a burning object in the shape of a bird under the water.
[edit] Differences from the comic book
Longtime fans of the X-Men title will recognize that some liberties have been taken with the X-Men characters. While the movie need not follow all the conventions of the comic, they are interesting to note and may be considered to be parallels with the Ultimate X-Men series.
- Iceman appears as a teenager and is much younger than many of the other X-Men. In the comics, Iceman was one of the original X-Men, and the youngest of the team (16 years old in 1964). He appeared and left many years before the 1980s X-Men like Rogue, Storm and Wolverine. If he were around at all, he would appear closer to Jean Grey's age and maturity. Iceman, Jean Grey and Cyclops are part of the original X-Men line-up.
- Colossus is in this movie but has only a very small part and is not part of the X-Men team, only an older student of the academy. While young in age when he began with the X-Men, he was a full-fledged member for many years in the comics. In addition, he does not speak with the expected Russian accent.
- William Stryker is a zealot preacher in the comics, while the film's version is the head commander of the covert black ops program Weapon X. His son, Jason, is a very loose incarnation of Jason "Mastermind" Wyngarde, who was a full-grown, mentally and physically able illusionist (with no relation to Stryker) from the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and Hellfire Club in the comics. In the film, Jason is mute, lobotomized and wheelchair-bound; his brain secretes a powerful chemical which is extracted through a tap in his spine and used by his father as a mind control agent on Nightcrawler, Deathstrike, Magneto and Cyclops. In his illusions, Jason projects himself as a young girl; both he and his illusory form have heterochromic irises (one blue, one brown).
- Deathstrike, who in the movie appeared as a mutant under Stryker's control was the daughter of the inventor of the adamantium bonding process in the comic books. Also, in the comics she was a cyborg, not a mutant.
- Rogue, according to the comic books has the ability of flight and superhuman strength, whereas in the movie she lacks these abilities. However Rogue only possesses these abilities in the comic books because she accidentally absorbed Ms. Marvel's powers by touching her for too long. By changing her backstory, skipping her original villainous phase, she is closer to her original basic ability.
- The role Rogue plays in the films - that of a young mutant who became a sort of surrogate daughter / little-sister to Wolverine - was originally established in the comic books by Kitty Pryde, and later Jubilee.
- There is no indication in the movie that Mystique is Nightcrawler's mother. Neither is there any indication in the movie that Mystique is Rogue's foster mother. However, as in the comic book, Mystique and Nightcrawler bear a strong physical resemblance. In the X2 DVD, they said that the scene between the two where Nightcrawler asks Mystique advice (asking why she doesn't just hide among humans) was a subtle reference to their relationships in the comics. It should be noted, however, that the story involving Mystique and Nightcrawler's kinship was not mentioned or elaborated upon in the comic book universe until long after both characters had been firmly (and separately) established.
- In the movie, Pyro is an American teenage student at the Xavier Academy who defects to Magneto's Brotherhood at the movie's climax. In the comics, he is a tall, blond, blue-eyed, Australian novelist in his 40s who always worked with the Brotherhood, though never under Magneto.
- In the comics, Nightcrawler has from time to time used various devices to make him temporarily appear more human.
- The movie implies that Logan got his claws in the Weapon X program. In the comics, the claws are part of his mutation – only the adamantium was added.
In summary, characters from many different times, titles and lineups were selected and placed into a new lineup that never before been seen in any X-Men comic or graphic novel.
[edit] Critical reaction and box office
As with the original film, X2 garnered praise from critics and won over most of the comic book community, and it earned more money at the box office, totaling $214.9M for North America and $407.5M worldwide[1]. The comic-book hobbyist magazine Wizard called it the best comic book movie of the year (2003). Empire magazine called it the best comic book movie of all time in 2006.[1]
[edit] Trivia
- Near the beginning of the movie Colonel William Stryker (Brian Cox) pays a visit to Magneto's plastic prison, which scans all visitors for metal as they enter. However, after Stryker drugs Magneto and leans close to interrogate him, the metal lens connections on Stryker's glasses can be seen for a few seconds.
- In the scene where Mystique is getting information on the guards of Magneto's Plastic Prison, some of the names of the guards are actually the names of the crew members from the movie. Such as: "Dougherty, M.", "Donner, L." and "Singer, B.". (You can see this if you wish by watching this scene frame-by-frame on your DVD player.) Also in the scene where Xavier visits Magneto, Bryan Singer can be briefly seen wheeling in Xavier to the outer room. (See images)
- Colonel William Stryker (Brian Cox) is referred to in dialogue as being up to 20 years older than Senator Robert Kelly (Bruce Davison). However, in real life, Cox and Davison were born only 27 days apart.
- In the first movie Mystique's yellow eyes were due to contact lenses but in the second, computer-generated imagery was used.
- The car that the X-Men drive in this film is actually just a modified Mazda RX-8, and was not a concept car.
- The film continues the running gag of the rivalry between Wolverine and Cyclops, Wolverine having hijacked Cyclops' motorbike at the end of the first film. He returns it to him at the start of this film, and later steals his car when he, Rogue, Iceman and Pyro are escaping Stryker's forces.
- When Nightcrawler attacks the Secret Service at the beginning of the movie, the "Dies Irae" from Mozart's Requiem plays.
- Just before the assassination attempt, Nightcrawler is shown in the White House with head cast downwards, mimicking a pose of a painting of John F. Kennedy, which hangs in the background (Oil Portrait of John F. Kennedy by Aaron Shikler).
- When Nightcrawler tries to scare away Storm and Jean Grey, he speaks German phrases: Ich bin der Bote des Teufels. Ich bin die Ausgeburt des Bösen! The translation is: I am the messenger of the Devil. I am the spawn of evil!
- In the scene where Mystique takes the information out of the computer, she looks at a list of names of mutants. Included in the list are:
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- the Guthries
- Samuel Guthrie (Cannonball) and his sister Paige (Husk)
- Keniucho Harada (Silver Samurai)
- Garrison Kane
- Remy LeBeau (Gambit)
- Eric M. Lensherr (Magneto)
- Elisabeth Braddock (Psylocke, who appears briefly in X-Men: the Last Stand)
- Lorna Dane (Polaris)
- Roberto DaCosta (Sunspot)
- Angelo Espinosa (Skin)
- the Cassidy Family (Banshee and Siryn, the latter of whom is briefly in X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand)
- Allison Blaire (Dazzler)
- Bobby Drake (Iceman)
- John Allerdyce (Pyro)
- Artie Maddicks
- Jamie Madrox (Multiple Man, who appears in X-Men: The Last Stand)
- Xi'an Coy Mahn (Karma)
- Pietro and Wanda Maximoff (Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, though their first names aren't seen)
- Kevin McTaggart (Proteus, though his last name is misspelled)
- Tom DeSanto (Executive Producer of the film)
- Danielle Moonstar (Psyche / Mirage)
- Ororo Munroe (Storm)
Folders on another screen carry the names:
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- Omega Red
- Franklin Richards (son of Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four)
- Project Wideawake (Sentinels)
- Muir Island; and Cerebro. Many of these are spotted only by pausing and possibly zooming the screen.
- In the scene where the channels change on the television, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 is seen, starring Patrick Stewart, the actor who plays Professor Charles Xavier in this movie.
- In the scene where Stryker uses the serum to interrogate Magneto, we see Magneto reading The Once and Future King by T. H. White. At the end of the movie, the camera pans out as Professor Xavier begins to teach his English class. If you listen closely, he asks his students if any of them have ever read "The Once and Future King" by a famous English novelist named T.H. White. According to the commentary, Bryan Singer chose the novel because the title is similar to Magneto while he was imprisoned: previously a leader, and a leader-to-be again later.
- The music in the scene in which Magneto escapes his plastic prison pays homage to Jonathan Demme's 1991 Academy Award winning movie, The Silence of the Lambs. Magneto is listening to a recording of a classical piece called "Aria of the Goldberg Variations" by Glenn Gould. This is the same music Hannibal Lecter was listening to when he murdered his guards and escaped imprisonment.
- In the beginning of the film Nightcrawler initially wears a layer of white make-up to help him infiltrate the White House. As he teleports around during his attack the disguise wears off. Due to the extensive make-up and prosthetics Alan Cumming wore to play Nightcrawler, it is sometimes incorrectly thought the layer of white make-up disappearing is a blooper.
- In the beginning of the film when Jean's telepathy is acting strange, the "thoughts" that are seemingly being thought by the people Jean looks at are actually bits of audio taken from different parts later on in the film. This seems to be an extra precognitive power. This increases Jean Greys claim of "something bad is about to happen".
[edit] Video games
X2 had a game tie-in on X2: Wolverine's Revenge which has nothing to do with the events of the movie.
There is also another game, X-Men: The Official Game which bridges the gap between X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand. Specifically, it explains Nightcrawler's absence from the third X-Men movie. However, X-Men: The Official Game is not truly X2's game, but the third X-Men movie, as this game came around in the same year as the third film.
[edit] Comics
The comic adaptation of the film was written without its writers knowing the actual ending of X2 as it was kept under wraps and therefore the comic's ending is different from the finished film.
[edit] Sequel
[edit] Notes
- ^ The 20 Greatest Comic Book Movies. Empireonline.com. Retrieved on 2006-10-20.
[edit] External links
- X-Men on Marvel.com
- Official Site
- TheXverse.com: X-Men Movie News
- X-Men Movies hype at the SuperHeroHype!
- X2 at Rotten Tomatoes
- X2 Script
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