X-Men (movie series)

X-Men
Based on
X-Men
by
Produced by
Production
companies
  • 26 Keys Productions
  • Marvel Entertainment
  • The Donners' Company
  • Bad Hat Harry Productions
  • Dune Entertainment
  • Flying Glass of Milk Productions
  • Ingenious Media
  • Kinberg Genre
  • TSG Entertainment
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
2000–2020
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetTotal (13 movies):
$1.748 billion
Box officeTotal (13 movies):
$6.083 billion

X-Men is an American superhero movie series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. An X-Men movie produced by 20th Century Fox and directed by Bryan Singer was released in 2000. Singer returned for a sequel, X2, which was released in 2003. Due to him directing Superman Returns (2006), Singer was replaced by Brett Ratner for the third and final movie of the original X-Men trilogy, X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).

The trilogy became a movie series with the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), a prequel movie based on the character Wolverine. In 2011, a prequel and soft reboot of the series, titled X-Men: First Class was released. It focused on the younger versions of Charles Xavier / Professor X and Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, before they became enemies. In 2013, a second Wolverine movie, The Wolverine, was released, but it was set after The Last Stand. The prequel and the original series crossovered in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). In the new movie, a new timeline is created and it is the one that the rest of the movies follow.

The first movie of the new timeline is Deadpool (2016), which is based on the character of the same name. X-Men: Apocalypse was released in the same year and was followed by the third and final Wolverine movie, Logan. Deadpool 2 was released in 2018 and the fourth and final movie of the X-Men prequel series, Dark Phoenix, was released in 2019. The final movie of the series, The New Mutants, was released in 2020.

The X-Men movie series also has two television series, Legion (2017–2019) and The Gifted (2017–2019). Legion has three seasons and The Gifted has two.

After The Walt Disney Company bought Fox in 2019, Marvel Studios took the rights to X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Having plans for their own X-Men movie set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), they canceled all planned X-Men projects. Patrick Stewart returned as a different version of Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)[1] and Kelsey Grammer returned as a different version of Hank McCoy / Beast in The Marvels (2023).[2] In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), the third Deadpool movie, a lot of the characters from the movie series will return, even though it is part of the MCU.[3] An X-Men movie set in the MCU is in development.[4]

The series has got positive reviews, with X-Men: Days of Future Past and Logan being considered two of the best superhero movies of all time. All 13 movies have made over $6 billion around the world.

Movies

Movies U.S. release date Director(s) Screenwriter(s) Story by Producer(s)
X-Men original trilogy
X-Men July 14, 2000 Bryan Singer David Hayter Tom DeSanto & Bryan Singer Lauren Shuler Donner & Ralph Winter
X2 May 2, 2003 Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris & David Hayter Zak Penn, David Hayter & Bryan Singer
X-Men: The Last Stand May 26, 2006 Brett Ratner Simon Kinberg & Zak Penn Lauren Shuler Donner, Ralph Winter & Avi Arad
Wolverine trilogy
X-Men Origins: Wolverine May 1, 2009 Gavin Hood David Benioff & Skip Woods Lauren Shuler Donner, Ralph Winter, Hugh Jackman & John Palermo
The Wolverine July 26, 2013 James Mangold Mark Bomback & Scott Frank Lauren Shuler Donner & Hutch Parker
Logan March 3, 2017 Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green James Mangold Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg & Hutch Parker
X-Men prequel movies
X-Men: First Class June 3, 2011 Matthew Vaughn Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn Sheldon Turner & Bryan Singer Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg & Gregory Goodman
X-Men: Days of Future Past May 23, 2014 Bryan Singer Simon Kinberg Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg & Matthew Vaughn Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg & Hutch Parker
X-Men: Apocalypse May 27, 2016 Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg, Michael Dougherty & Dan Harris
Dark Phoenix June 7, 2019 Simon Kinberg Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker & Todd Hallowell
Deadpool movies
Deadpool February 12, 2016 Tim Miller Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg & Ryan Reynolds
Deadpool 2 May 18, 2018 David Leitch Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick & Ryan Reynolds
Spin-off
The New Mutants August 28, 2020 Josh Boone Josh Boone & Knate Lee Simon Kinberg, Karen Rosenfelt & Lauren Shuler Donner

Television series

Series Season Episodes Originally aired Showrunner
First aired Last aired Network
Legion 1 8 February 8, 2017 March 29, 2017 FX Noah Hawley
2 11 April 3, 2018 June 12, 2018
3 8 June 24, 2019 August 12, 2019
The Gifted 1 13 October 2, 2017 January 15, 2018 Fox Matt Nix
2 16 September 25, 2018 February 26, 2019

Timeline

Events in the main continuity X-Men films are traditionally placed in two timelines.[5] The original timeline starts with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, continuing through X-Men: First Class, X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Wolverine, and up to X-Men: Days of Future Past.[6] The settings are mostly contemporaneous save for X-Men Origins: Wolverine (set between 1845 and 1979), X-Men: First Class (1962), and X-Men: Days of Future Past (partially 2023).[6][7] From X-Men: Days of Future Past, a new timeline emerges corresponding to the prevention of Bolivar Trask's assassination by Wolverine in 1973, which retroactively alters all established film continuity.[5][8][9] This second timeline includes X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, spanning from 1983 to 1992.[6][8]

However, continuity in the films is not uniform and has been subjected to perceived errors related to storytelling and characters.[a] The Deadpool films, for example, feature a distinct interpretation of Deadpool than X-Men Origins: Wolverine despite being played by the same actor,[15] though cameos from the young X-Men in Deadpool 2 attempt to convey these films are also part of the new timeline.[16] Jackman stated that Logan transpires in an alternate timeline, contradicting Mangold's claim that it does in fact occur in tandem with the core films.[17][18][19][20] The New Mutants contains some references to the X-Men though bears no obvious relationship to events in the main continuity films.[21] Nevertheless, Marvel designated the X-Men universe as Earth-10005 within the context of their multiverse.[22]

Reception

Box office

Movie U.S. release date Box office gross All-time ranking Production budget Ref(s)
U.S. and Canada Other territories Worldwide U.S. & Canada Worldwide
X-Men July 14, 2000 $157,299,718 $139,039,810 $296,339,528 330 479 $75 million [23]
X2 May 2, 2003 $214,949,694 $192,761,855 $407,711,549 178 282 $110 million [24]
X-Men: The Last Stand May 26, 2006 $234,362,462 $226,072,829 $460,435,291 140 236 $210 million [25]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine May 1, 2009 $179,883,157 $193,179,707 $373,062,864 252 320 $150 million [26]
X-Men: First Class June 3, 2011 $146,408,305 $206,208,385 $352,616,690 373 360 $160 million [27]
The Wolverine July 26, 2013 $132,556,852 $282,271,394 $414,828,246 449 271 $120 million [28]
X-Men: Days of Future Past May 23, 2014 $233,921,534 $512,124,166 $746,045,700 143 98 $205 million [29]
Deadpool February 12, 2016 $363,070,709 $419,766,082 $782,836,791 46 89 $58 million [30]
X-Men: Apocalypse May 27, 2016 $155,442,489 $388,491,616 $543,934,105 336 178 $178 million [31]
Logan March 3, 2017 $226,277,068 $392,902,882 $619,179,950 154 144 $97 million [32]
Deadpool 2 May 18, 2018 $324,591,735 $461,304,874 $785,896,609 64 87 $110 million [33]
Dark Phoenix June 7, 2019 $65,845,974 $186,597,000 $252,442,974 1,246 584 $200 million [34]
The New Mutants August 28, 2020 $23,852,659 $25,316,935 $49,169,594 3,294 3,085 $67–80 million [35]
Total $2,458,462,356 $3,626,037,535 $6,084,499,891 #7 #8 $1.735 billion [36]

Reviews

Critical and public response to X-Men
Movie Critical Public
Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic CinemaScore
X-Men 82% (174 reviews)[37] 64 (33 reviews)[38] A−[39]
X2 85% (247 reviews)[40] 68 (37 reviews)[41] A[39]
X-Men: The Last Stand 57% (239 reviews)[42] 58 (38 reviews)[43] A−[44]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 38% (259 reviews)[45] 40 (39 reviews)[46] B+[39]
X-Men: First Class 86% (299 reviews)[47] 65 (38 reviews)[48] B+[49]
The Wolverine 71% (262 reviews)[50] 61 (46 reviews)[51] A−[52]
X-Men: Days of Future Past 90% (334 reviews)[53] 75 (44 reviews)[54] A[44]
Deadpool 85% (348 reviews)[55] 65 (49 reviews)[56] A[57]
X-Men: Apocalypse 47% (349 reviews)[58] 52 (48 reviews)[59] A−[60]
Logan 93% (429 reviews)[61] 77 (51 reviews)[62] A−[63]
Deadpool 2 84% (422 reviews)[64] 66 (51 reviews)[65] A[57]
Dark Phoenix 22% (388 reviews)[66] 43 (52 reviews)[67] B−[60]
The New Mutants 36% (139 reviews)[68] 43 (20 reviews)[69] N/a

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