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| Credits | |
| Title: | X2: X-Men United |
| Director: | Bryan Singer |
| Writers: | Zak Penn; David Hayter; Bryan Singer; Michael Dougherty; Dan Harris |
| Producers: | Avi Arad; Tom DeSanto; Ross Fanger; Kevin Feige; David Gorder; Stan Lee; Lauren Shuler Donner; Bryan Singer; Ralph Winter |
| Composer: | John Ottman |
| Cinematography: | Newton Thomas Sigel |
| Editors: | Elliot Graham; John Ottman |
| Production | |
| Distributed by: | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Marvel Enterprises Bad Hat Harry Productions |
| Released: | May 2nd, 2003 |
| Rating: | PG-13 |
| Running time: | 133 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $110,000,000 [1] $191,450,819 (Foreign) [1] |
| Gross: | $214,948,780 (US) |
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X2: X-Men United is an American feature film of the action, sci-fi and superhero fantasy genres. It is the second installment in the original three-movie X-Men film series and follows the 2000 blockbuster X-Men. It is succeeded by the 2006 sequel, X-Men: The Last Stand. X2: X-Men United was directed by Bryan Singer, who also directed the original film, with a script written by Michael Doughtery, Dan Harris and David Hayter based on a story treatment by Zak Penn, David Hayter and Bryan Singer. The film was produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in cooperation with Marvel Enterprises and Bryan Singer's production studio Bad Hat Harry Productions. It was released theatrically in the United States on May 2nd, 2003. The X-Men are based on the popular comic book family of titles published by Marvel Comics as first envisioned by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby back in September, 1963.
X2: X-Men United brings back the entire cast of protagonists from the first film as the mutant superhero team, the X-Men. The film stars Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Halle Berry as Storm, Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, James Marsden as Cyclops, Shawn Ashmore as Iceman and Anna Paquin as Rogue. On the super-baddies side of town, actor Ian McKellen reprises the role of "Master of Magnetism" Magneto with Rebecca Romijn-Stamos returning as the mutant shapeshifter Mystique. Joining the X-universe with this film is Alan Cumming as the mutant hero Nightcrawler, Brian Cox as the militant leader William Stryker and Kelly Hu as Lady Deathstrike.
The premise of the film involves William Stryker, who is a rabid anti-mutant military figure who uses his resources to stage an assassination attempt on the President of the United States in order to blame it on mutants. Once he discovers the location of the X-Men's school, he sends a squad of soldiers to kill every mutant they come across, forcing both staff and students to flee. During this, XMF|Wolverine confronts his past as he returns to the very facility that gave him his Adamantium skeleton in order to fight another clawed assassin - Lady Deathstrike.
Plot[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Patrick Stewart | Professor X, Charles Xavier |
| Hugh Jackman | Wolverine, Logan |
| Ian McKellen | Magneto, Erik Lehnsherr |
| Halle Berry | Storm, Ororo Munroe |
| Famke Janssen | Jean Grey |
| James Marsden | Cyclops, Scott Summers |
| Anna Paquin | Rogue |
| Rebecca Romijn-Stamos | Mystique, Raven Darkholme |
| Brian Cox | William Stryker |
| Alan Cumming | Nightcrawler, Kurt Wagner |
| Bruce Davison | Mystique/Senator Robert Kelly |
| Aaron Stanford | Pyro, John Allerdyce |
| Shawn Ashmore | Iceman, Bobby Drake |
| Kelly Hu | Lady Deathstrike, Yuriko Oyama |
| Katie Stuart | Kitty Pryde |
| Kea Wong | Jubilee, Jubilation Lee |
| Cotter Smith | President McKenna |
| Chiara Zanni | White House tour guide |
| Jackie A. Greenback | President's secretary |
| Michael Soltis | White House checkpoint agent |
| Michael David Simms | White House lead agent |
| David Fabrizio | Oval Office agent Fabrizio |
| Roger R. Cross | Oval Office agent Cartwright |
| Richard Bradshaw | Special Ops agent |
| Bryce Hodgson | Artie Maddicks |
| Glen Curtis | Museum teenager #1 |
| Greg Rikaart | Museum teenager #2 |
| Shauna Kain | Siryn, Theresa Rourke |
| Ty Olsson | Mitchell Laurio |
| Alfonso Quijada | Federal building twin #1 |
| Rene Quijada | Federal building twin #2 |
| Brad Loree | Stryker at age 40 |
| Sheri G. Feldman | Augmentation room doctor |
| Connor Widdowes | Jones |
| Daniel Cudmore | Colossus, Peter Rasputin |
| Peter Wingfield | Stryker solder Lyman |
| Charles Siegel | Doctor Shaw |
| Steve Bacic | Hank McCoy |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Copyright holder: © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
- X2 (2003), X-Men 2 (2003), X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men: United all redirect to this page.
- Production on X2: X-Men United started on June 17th, 2002. Principal photography concluded on October 6th, 2002. [1]
- X2: X-Men United was released on DVD in Region 1 format (two-disc special edition) by 20th Century-Fox Home Video on November 25th, 2003. [2] It was re-released as a single-disc edition by 20th Century Fox on September 6th, 2005. [3] The movie was released on Blu-ray on April 21st, 2009. [4] The movie has also been included on both DVD and Blu-ray versions of The X-Men Trilogy boxset collection.