Meanwhile, Logan explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past, but finds nothing. A sequel, X-Men: The Last Stand, was released on May 26, 2006.Īt the White House, brainwashed teleporting mutant Nightcrawler attacks the President of the United States. The film grossed $407 million worldwide, and received eight Saturn Awards nominations. X2 was released in the United States on by 20th Century Fox, and received positive reviews for its storyline, action sequences, and performances. Production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas adapted similar designs by John Myhre from the previous film.
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. The film's premise was influenced by the Marvel Comics storylines Return to Weapon X and God Loves, Man Kills. Sentinels and the Danger Room were set to appear before being deleted because of budget concerns. Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris were eventually hired to rewrite the work, and changed the characterizations of Beast, Angel, and Lady Deathstrike. David Hayter and Zak Penn wrote separate scripts, combining what they felt to be the best elements of both scripts into one screenplay.
Its 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, in order 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, their former enemies, to stop Stryker and save the mutant race.ĭevelopment on the sequel began shortly after the first film was released in 2000. It is the sequel to X-Men (2000), as well as the second installment in the X-Men film series, and 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. The film is based on the X-Men superhero team appearing in Marvel Comics. X2 (also marketed as X2: X-Men United and internationally as X-Men 2) is a 2003 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.