X2
X2 (also marketed with the subtitle X-Men United, and internationally as X-Men 2) is a 2003 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the X-Men. Directed by Bryan Singer and written by Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and David Hayter, from a story by Singer, Hayter and Zak Penn, it is the second installment in the X-Men film series and the sequel to X-Men (2000). It stars an ensemble cast including Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Bruce Davison, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Kelly Hu, and Anna Paquin. The plot, inspired by the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills, concerns the genocidal Colonel William Stryker leading an assault on Professor Xavier's school to build his own version of Xavier's mutant-tracking computer, Cerebro, to destroy every mutant on Earth and to save the human race from them, forcing the X-Men to team up with the Brotherhood of Mutants to stop Stryker and save the mutant race.
Plot
At the White House, a teleporting mutant, Nightcrawler, attacks the President of the United States; he is shot and retreats. Meanwhile, Logan explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past, but finds nothing. Jean Grey has been having premonitions and struggles to concentrate as her powers become increasingly difficult to control.
Awards
Cast
- Aaron Douglas
- Aaron Pearl
- Aaron Stanford
- Alan Cumming
- Alf Humphreys
- Anna Paquin
- Brad Loree
- Brian Cox
- Bruce Davison
- Chiara Zanni
- Cotter Smith
- Daniel Cudmore
- David Kaye
- Emily Hirst
- Famke Janssen
- Halle Berry
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- Ian McKellen
- Jade Ramsey
- James Kirk
- James Marsden
- Katie Stuart
- Kelly Hu
- Layke Anderson
- Michael Reid McKay
- Newton Thomas Sigel
- Nolan Gerard Funk
- Patrick Stewart
- Peter Wingfield
- Rebecca Romijn
- Roger Cross
- Shawn Ashmore
- Steve Bacic
- Ty Olsson
- Valerie Tian