
At 6’2″ Jackman is a foot taller than the character in the comic book, this is never an issue. The real revelation is Hugh Jackman, a late replacement for Dougray Scott who was stuck doing reshoots on Mission: Impossible II (2000). This leads nicely onto the next point, the casting is perfect throughout, with a special mention for Stewart, McKellen and Jackman. This restraint and the benefit of is shown in later films when the cast gets bloated and it detracts from the story. The Brotherhood of Mutants are Magneto (Ian McKellen), Mystique(Rebecca Romijn), Sabretooth (Tyler Mane), and Toad (Ray Park). Partly due to the limited budget the groups are kept small, with the X-Men consisting of Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), Storm(Halle Berry), and Cyclops (James Marsden). With a vast array of characters within the comic book universe all with their own abilities, it would have been easy to flood the story with them. We are introduced via Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Rogue (Anna Paquin). But we as the viewers have a way into both the world of the X-Men (both the group, and the world they inhabit) with minimal exposition. There are a few key reasons the film works: The story starts with the X-Men as a established group, not an origin story. The financial limitations probably helped with the creativity of writer/direct Bryan Singer, and he his co-writers David Hayter, and Tom SeSanto. While $75million is a lot of money (think how many indie movies you could make for that), it is relatively small by blockbuster standards, around half that of The World Is Not Enough (1999), the most recent Bond film at the time.

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X-Men (2000) – The first movie X-Men was limited by a relatively small budget. That’s enough of the business, what about the movies? Here goes: Marvel, 20th Century Fox, and lots of companies are now owned by The Walt Disney Studios. The X-Men movies were co-productions between Marvel Entertainment and 20th Century Fox. After all, none of the X-Men were as big or well known as DC’s big hitters, Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, or Marvels big two, Spider-Man, and The Hulk! It’s worth remembering, this is all before Marvel Studios, when Marvel properties were made by other companies under complicated licence agreements that are still being unpicked to this day. But they still started off small with relatively small budgets. From that point of view, it was probably a safer franchise to begin with. At the time I knew the X-Men better than most MCU characters, I’m sure the same is true for a lot of viewers. I believe it started in 1998 with Blade, but there are two other franchises that were the key stepping stones: Spider-Man starting in 2002, and X-Men franchise starting in 2000.
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A series of events, or to be more precise films set the foundations that made the MCU possible.

Back when a comic book movie looked like Batman & Robin (1997) this would not have seemed possible. Their success is responsible, not only for imitators, but also setting a new benchmark for film budgets, and what is deemed successful. The MCU has reshaped cinema, nine of the twenty movies have grossed over $1billion. I have spent the last few days re-watching the X-Men movies, here are a few thoughts. GRANT, Rila Fukushima, Rogue, Rose Byrne, Ryan Reynolds, Sabretooth, Scott Summers, Sebastian Shaw, Sophie Turner, Stephen Merchant, Storm, Sunspot, Svetlana Khodchenkova, T H White, Taylor Kitsch, The Brotherhood of Mutants, The Dark Phoenix Saga, The Once and Future King, Tye Sheridan, Tyler Mane, Viper, Wade Wilson, Warpath, Weapon XI, William Stryker, Wolverine, X-Men, X-Men Apocalypse, X-Men Dark Phoenix, X23, Yukio, Yuriko Oyama, Zoë Kravitz on April 25, 2020| Rice, Ellen Page, Emma Frost, En Sabah Nur, Eric Lensherr, Erik Lensherr, Evan Peters, Famke Janssen, Gambit, Halle Berry, Hank, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, James McAvoy, January Jones, Jason Flemyng, Jean Grey, Jennifer Lawrence, jessica chastain, Jubilee, Kelly Hu, Kevin Bacon, Kitty Pryde, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kurt Wagner, Lady Deathstrike, Lana Condor, Laura, Logan, magneto, Major William Stryker, Man in Black Suit, Mei Melançon, Michael Fassbender, Moira MacTaggert, Mystique, Nicholas Hoult, Nightcrawler, Oliver Platt, Olivia Munn, Omar Sy, Ororo Munroe, Oscar Isaac, Patrick Stewart, Peter Maximoff, Psylocke, Quicksilver, Raven, Ray Park, Rebecca Romijn, Remy LeBeau, RICHARD E. Posted in Comic Book Movies, Movie Blog, tagged Adan Canto, Alan Cumming, Alexandra Shipp, Angel Salvadore, Anna Paquin, Ansel Adams, Apocalypse, Azazel, Beast, Ben Hardy, Bingbing Fan, Blink, Booboo Stewart, Boyd Holbrook as Pierce, Brian Cox, Caliban, Charles Xavier, Colonel William Stryker, Cyclops, Dafne Keen, Danny Huston, Dark Phoenix, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Dr Green, Dr.
