X2: X-Men United

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier
• Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine
• Ian McKellen as Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
• Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe / Storm
• Famke Janssen as Jean Grey
• James Marsden as Scott Summers / Cyclops
• Anna Paquin as Rogue
• Rebecca Romijn as Raven Darkholme / Mystique / Grace
• Brian Cox as William Stryker
• Alan Cumming as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
• Bruce Davison as Senator Kelly
• Aaron Stanford as John Allerdyce / Pyro
• Shawn Ashmore as Bobby Drake / Ice Man
• Kelly Hu as Yuriko Oyama / Deathstrike
• Katie Stuart as Kitty Pryde
• Kea Wong as Jubilation Lee / Jubilee
• Cotter Smith as President McKenna
• Chiara Zanni as White House Tour Guide
• Jackie A. Greenbank as President’s Secretary
• Michael Soltis as White House Checkpoint Agent
• Michael David Simms as White House Agent (Lead Agent)
• David Fabrizio as Oval Office Agent Fabrizio
• Roger Cross as Oval Office Agent Cartwright
• Richard Bradshaw as Special Ops Agent
• Bryce Hodgson as Artie
• Glen Curtis as Museum Teenager #1
• Greg Rikaart as Museum Teenager #2
• Shauna Kain as Theresa Rourke / Siryn
• Ty Olsson as Mitchell Laurio
• Alfonso Quijada as Federal Bldg. Cleaning Twin #1
• Rene Quijada as Federal Bldg. Cleaning Twin #2
• Brad Loree as Stryker at age 40
• Sheri G. Feldman as Augmentation Room Doctor
• Connor Widdows as Jones
• Daniel Cudmore as Piotr Rasputin / Colossus
• Peter Wingfield as Stryker Soldier Lyman
• Charles Siegel as Dr. Shaw
• Steve Bacic as Dr. Hank McCoy
• Michael Reid MacKay as Jason 143
• James Kirk as Ronny Drake
• Jill Teed as Madeline Drake
• Alf Humphreys as William Drake
• Michasha Armstrong as Plastic Prison Guard

Storyline:

Several months have passed since the X-Men defeated Magneto and imprisoned him in a seemingly impregnable plastic chamber. One day, a mutant by the name of Nightcrawler infiltrates the White House and attempts to assassinate the President, setting off a chain reaction of anti-mutant measures by the government. Meanwhile, Logan is trying to discover his past. As scientist named William Stryker discovers Professor X’s secret school and Cerebro, Magneto’s partner, Mystique, is planning to break her leader out of prison. But when Professor X’s school is attacked by Stryker’s forces, Logan, Rogue, Iceman, and a few are lucky to escape. Those who remain meet in Boston, where they form an uneasy alliance with Magneto to stop Stryker and rescue Professor X.

About Movie:

X2 (also marketed as X2: X-Men United, and internationally as X-Men 2) is an American superhero film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and David Hayter, from a story by Singer, Hayter and Zak Penn. The film is based on the X-Men superhero team appearing in Marvel Comics. It is the sequel to X-Men (2000), as well as the second installment in the X-Men film series.

It features 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.

Development on the sequel began shortly after the first film was released on July 14, 2000, by 20th Century Fox. David Hayter and Zak Penn wrote separate scripts, combining what they felt to be the best elements of both scripts into one screenplay. Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris were eventually hired to rewrite the work, and changed the characterizations of Beast, Angel, and Lady Deathstrike. Sentinels and the Danger Room were set to appear before being deleted because of budget concerns from Fox.

The film’s premise was influenced by the Marvel Comics storylines Return to Weapon X and God Loves, Man Kills. Filming began in June 2002 and ended that November, mostly taking place at Vancouver Film Studios, the largest North American production facility outside of Los Angeles. Production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas adapted similar designs by John Myhre from the previous film.

X2 was released in the United States on May 2, 2003, by 20th Century Fox, and received positive reviews for its storyline, action sequences, and performances. The film grossed $407 million worldwide, making it the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2003, and received eight Saturn Awards nominations.

A sequel, X-Men: The Last Stand, was released on May 26, 2006.

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