Taglines: Protecting Those Who Fear Them.
X-Men movie storyline. In the near future, when children are being born with a special X-factor in their genes, giving them special powers and making them mutants, the seeds of a new Holocaust are being sown by Senator Robert Kelly. The situation brings into opposition the fellow mutants and former friends, Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto, and Professor Charles Xavier.
While Xavier wants a peaceful means of stopping the hatred toward mutants, Magneto seeks to even things out with a machine that would speed up the mutation process in all humans, making everyone equal. To stop Magneto, Xavier brings together a special group of mutants called “X-Men” to stop him. In the meantime, two mysterious mutants emerge: Logan, a powerful and aggressive mutant with no past, no memories, and a young girl named Rogue. Their quests for identities eventually land them in the sights of Xavier and Magneto, but for what purpose?
X-Men is a 2000 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the first installment in the X-Men film series, followed by X2 in 2003 and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006. The film, directed by Bryan Singer and written by David Hayter, features an ensemble cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Bruce Davison, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Ray Park, Tyler Mane, and Anna Paquin.
Cast and Characters
Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier
The mutant founder of the X-Men and the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, who hopes for peaceful coexistence between mutantkind and mankind and is regarded as an authority on genetic mutation. Although restricted to a wheelchair, his mutant powers include vast telepathy, which is amplified by the Cerebro supercomputer that he invented with Magneto’s help.
Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine
A Canadian roughhouser with the mutant ability to sense others with enhanced animal-like senses, heal rapidly from numerous injuries (which makes his age impossible to determine) and wield three claws extending past the bridge of each knuckle, who has lived for fifteen years without memory of his past apart from his dog tags and an adamantium-encased skeleton.
Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
An Auschwitz survivor with the mutant ability to generate powerful magnetic fields and manipulate metal, who was once friends with Xavier (with whom he helped to build Cerebro) until his belief that humans and mutants could never co-exist led to their separation, leaving him to develop a sophisticated knowledge in matters of genetic manipulation, which he uses in an attempt to mutate the world leaders in order to allow mutant prosperity.
Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe / Storm
A Maasai master thief with the mutant ability to manipulate the weather, who teaches calmly and caringly at Xavier’s school but has become bitter with other people’s hatred for mutants, sometimes making her hate humans in return simply because she is afraid of them.
Famke Janssen as Dr. Jean Grey
The mutant doctor of the X-Mansion who is Cyclops’s fiancée. Her powers include telekinesis and telepathy.
James Marsden as Scott Summers / Cyclops
A mutant who is Xavier’s second-in-command and the X-Men’s field leader, as well as an instructor at the Institute. He is engaged to Jean Grey. His powers include a strong red beam of force shooting from his eyes, which is only held in check by sunglasses or a specialized ruby-quartz visor, which also enables him to control the strength of the beam to fire when in combat.
Bruce Davison as Senator Robert Kelly
An anti-mutant politician who wishes to ban mutant children from schools using a Mutant Registration Act. He is kidnapped by Magneto in a test of his mutation machine, which causes his body to turn into a liquid-like substance. He dies before Jean could save him.
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos as Raven Darkhölme / Mystique
Magneto’s mutant loyal second-in-command, who seems completely facile with respect to modern technology. Her powers include altering her shape, voice and mimicking any human being, which is almost secondary to her role as “the perfect soldier”.
Ray Park as Mortimer Toynbee / Toad
A very agile mutant and henchman of Magneto. His powers include a prehensile tongue, a slimy substance that he spits onto others, and enhanced agility.
Tyler Mane as Victor Creed / Sabretooth
A brutal and sadistic Canadian mutant mercenary and henchman of Magneto. His powers include a ferocious, feline-like nature, enhanced animal-like senses, fangs and healing abilities similar to Wolverine’s, and claws extending past each finger.
Anna Paquin as Marie D’Ancanto / Rogue
A mutant seventeen-year-old girl forced to leave her home in Mississippi when she puts her boyfriend into a coma by kissing him. Her powers include absorbing anyone’s memories, life force, and in the case of mutants – powers through physical touch.
X-Men (2000)
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn, Ellen Page, Rhona Shekter
Screenplay by: Tom DeSanto, Bryan Singer
Production Design by: John Myhre
Cinematography by: Newton Thomas Sigel
Film Editing by: Steven Rosenblum, Kevin Stitt, John Wright
Costume Design by: Louise Mingenbach
Set Decoration by: James Edward Ferrell Jr.
Music by: Michael Kamen
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sci-fi action violence.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: July 14, 2000
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