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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | 2000–2020 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | Total (13 movies): $1.748 billion |
Box office | Total (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.