Saturday, April 27, 2013

X-Men - Film Released in 2000




X-Men is a 2000 American superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics characters of the same name.

The film has in its cast Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Famke Janssen, Bruce Davison, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Rebecca Romijn, Ray Park and Tyler Mane.

It depicts a world in which a small proportion of people are mutants and posess superhuman powers.  The film focuses on the mutants Wolverine and Rogue as they are brought into a conflict between two groups that have radically different approaches to bringing about the acceptance of mutantkind: Professor Xavier's X-Men, and the Brotherhood of Mutants, led by Magneto.

Te film rights went to 20th Century Fox in 1994. Filming took place from September 22, 1999 to March 3, 2000, primarily in Toronto. X-Men was released to positive reviews and was a financial success for Fox, spawning a reemergence of superhero films and a series of sequels and spin-offs.

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