X Men 2 Expected Release Date U.S. : Summer 2003 (Subject to change)
Expected Release Date U.K. : Summer 2003 (subject to change)
Expected Rental Release Date :

X Men 2 Cast : Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Halle Berry (Storm), Ian McKellan (Magneto), Patrick Stewert, Ray Park, Famke Janssen, , Aaron Stanford, Alan Cumming, Kelly Hu.
Director : Bryan Singer
Written By : Bryan Singer, David Hayter
Producers :
Other Known Crew Members :

X Men 2 Based On : The hugely popular comic book series and the equally sucessful first movie.
Premise/Synopsis : "The story involves the appearance of the menacing 'Legacy Virus', a man-made disease that is only infectious to mutants, eventually resulting in their deaths. The X-Men must face the creator of the Virus as well as battle the spread of the disease as it vectors through the public." (reported by 13th Street) .
Genre : Action/ Sci-Fi

Official Site : X-Men-The-Movie.com
Fan Sites :
Trailer : Teaser Quicktime
Released By : 20th Century Fox

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Tuesday 6th May 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Eagle-eye movie-goers have spotted more than 40 mistakes in the new X-Men
film. They range from disappearing documents and vanishing bodies, to
glasses refilling themselves. The number of mistakes in X-Men 2 equals that
of the first film, submitted by viewers to www.moviemistakes.com. (Spoiler
alert). One error comes when the President is visited by the X-Men, he
receives a blue binder which later disappears from his desk. In another
scene, when Magneto kills the soldiers outside Cerebro 2, their bodies are
left all over the place. But when Nightcrawler, Storm and the rest of the
X-Men come to the same place, the bodies have disappeared. And when
Wolverine locks up Striker in the chopper, he just wraps the chain around
Striker's chest. But when Striker tries to escape from the chains, his hands
are tied behind his back.

Monday 5th May 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Mutant sci-fi sequel X-Men 2 blitzed the worldwide box office last weekend,
raking in a massive $155m (£96m). The weekend figures mean that it has
already made more than half of the total that the first film made.
Unsurprisingly, it leapt straight to the top of the North American box
office charts, taking about $85.8m (£53.5m), the fourth highest opening on
record. The sequel opened in 93 countries simultaneously, and on more than
8,000 screens in the US alone.

Monday 5th May 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Many have been wondering what were the mutant names seen on Stryker's database list in a brief scene in "X2", well here's the list for hardcore fans - Keniucho Harada (Silver Samurai), Garrison Kane (Kane), Remy LeBeau (Gambit), Eric Lensherr (Magneto), Artie Maddicks, Jamie Madrox (Multiple Man), Xi'an Coy Mahn (Karma), Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver), Kevin McTaggart, Danielle Moonstar (Mirage), Ororo Munroe (Storm), Paige Guthrie (Husk), Samuel Guthrie (Cannonball).

Friday 2nd May 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Review posted by Dean Kish for X2 X Men 2
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Friday 24th April 2003: X Men 3 Update:
Hugh Jackman has said he can’t see himself playing Wolverine for much
longer. The X-Men star said in a recent interview that he would do another
movie as the character, but doesn’t want to be stuck playing him into his
old age. “They don't really have to rely on the existing format because
there are so many characters in the pantheon of the comic book series," he
explained. "The younger characters, which Wolverine mentors, could take up
the mantle and do just as good a job. It is limitless and the characters
could grow up with the fans."

Friday 24th April 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Pictures from the premiere of X2 X Men 2 are up Click Here

Tuesday 15th April 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Looks like the X Men 2 UNITED title is NOT true. Director Bryan
Singer has revealed that the title was NEVER under consideration.

Monday 14th April 2003: X2 X Men United Update:
A new poster for X2 X Men United as it's now being called. Me I'm sticking with X Men 2 has appeared online Click Here

Friday 11th April 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
It looks like the new X-Men movie, X2, is spending its last days in post-production. There are reports today that say the film’s director, Bryan Singer is in the last stages of piecing together the final cut for the X-Men sequel. And unless there aren’t any drastic changes to be made, Singer says, X2 looks like the finished product to hit theaters May 2nd will be ready in the next couple of days. The final version of the flick looks like it’ll clock in at around two hours and fifteen minutes.

Monday 7th April 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
CHUD have scanned in a ton of new X2 images Click Here

Tuesday 1st April 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
X2 director Bryan Singer claims he isn't worried about the Matrix sequels stealing his thunder, because he believes the two movies are operating on different levels. The sequel to 2000's smash hit X-Men is being released in May and just a few weeks later, the first of two follow-ups to 1999's The Matrix hits cinema screens. But Singer says: "I think we're in a different world than The Matrix, we're exciting in a different way and we have different characters and a different tone. We operate in our own universe. We don't worry about Superman and Spider-Man and The Matrix and The Hulk."

Thursday 20th March 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
The production designer of X2 has been talking about some of the sets and locations for X2 and possibly X Men 3.... " The designs for the Sentinels and the Danger Room have been carefully archived for the next film. The Sentinels were almost fully conceptualized and taken in 3D while the Danger Room was half built on a stage up in Vancouver. We tried to incoporate these things into X2, but there was just too much going on in the film already and had we added all of the scenes that we wanted to add, the film would have ended up being 4 hours long. So look out for the Danger Room sometime down the line...I kept some photos becuase it looked really impressive, even at that stage. I was sad to see
that scene go because I collaborated with Adam Kubert, the genious comic
book artist who draws Wolverine on a regular basis, on staging that scene
inside of the set. Adam did some original boards for us and they clearly
showed how amazing the whole scene was going to be. Wolverine is one of my favorite characters and this would have been his big moment, his time to
kick ass on the big screen like no one else before".

Tuesday 18th March 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
X Men 2 has been given a PG-13 Rating it has been announced today.

Monday 17th March 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
The running time of X2 X Men 2 is thought to be coming in at 104 minutes.

Monday 17th March 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
John Ottman has revealed the follong on his website "After months of editing and writing music, John Ottman finally started recording the 100+ minute score to 'X-Men 2' today. With a 90+ piece orchestra (and choir) to be utilized, conductor / orchestrator Damon Intrabartolo kicked off the scoring session at the Newman Scoring Stage."

Friday 14th March 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
A new picture of Nightcrawler has appeared online at Dark Horizons Click Here

Thursday 13th March 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Movie God have just put up a ton of new X Men 2 pics Click Here

Thursday 6th March 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Rumours are flying that Ryan Gosling will be cameoing in X Men 2 as Gambit.

Thursday 30th January 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Ian McKellan has been revealing sore more information about the upcoming X Men sequel "Magneto wears his helmet again but it has been cunningly adapted so that it has a little more style than last time round. Same colour though. Magneto flies and spectacularly deals with a life-threatening technical problem -- but whether he does this from within the prison or elsewhere would spoil it for some".

Monday 27th January 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Alan Cumming has been revealing some details of his role as Nightcrawler in the upcoming X Men 2 "Nightcrawler's always been an X-person, but he's not been in the film before. So they're very, very secretive. I would have all this blue makeup on, and they would make me wear this sort of cloak with a hood. I looked like the Grim Reaper. I could sort of see through it, but I would have to work from my trailer to the set with this on, so in case of paparazzi in the trees, they would just see the Grim Reaper. But then, an official photo shoot that I did, the photo got leaked out. But I was squatting and I had a hole in my trousers for the tail to come out. You could see my underpants and then they were going to Photoshop the trousers on top of the underpants. And that photo with the underpants showing was leaked. And there was a big thing on these fan sites, 'What's this thing with Nightcrawler showing his underpants? Is he gay? Is he gay?' And then they're going, 'I always thought he was gay.' It was just the weirdest thing. It was bad enough that even though I was wearing this burka for months and now everyone thinks that I'm going to be playing this gay super-hero with his Calvin Kleins sticking out of his costume."

Wednesday 22nd January 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Hugh Jackman has been talking about the upcoming X Men movie "When this [hair] doesn't have two cans of hairspray in it, I look like Moe from the Three Stooges. It's all just exactly the same length. So it is me, uh, sacrificing for my art. Fox has given [the movie] more money. The actions is twice as good, twice as much. It starts with an assassination attempt on the president by a mutant. Which leads to the situation that every mutant is wanted, to be round up and registered and corralled. And there's almost a war going on with the humans.To find out more about his past Wolverine is going off to Alberta and through the woods."

Monday 20th January 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Production Designer Guy Dyas has revealed why he redesigned Cyclops goggles for the sequel "I always hated Cyclops' goggles...They looked like Princess Leia, with those huge things on the side." Other news is that there will be cameo appearances by Jubilee and Gambit. Beast and Angel, and the X Men's Danger Room were dropped from the movie because there were apparently too many visually complicated characters and because the FX for these three were deemed too expensive.

Thursday 16th January 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Pictures of the X Men car used in X Men 2 can be found by Clicking Here

Monday 13th January 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Word reaches us that the ending of X Men 2 may change, now it doesn't look like it will be a material change more of an addendum with word that they may go back and film an extra scene that will show the addition of new recruits to the X men and this will apparently include Gambit. Personally I think it sounds like something for the DVD.

Sunday 12th January 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Brian Singer has been talking about Nightcrawler "He’s a very interesting character. Once again, like Rogue in the first picture, there’s a kind of dichotomy to his character that interests me; he’s a religious character who has the physical proportions of a demon. He has a unique power that we haven’t seen before; he teleports, which is a bit different from what all the other characters do and that’s always important. One finds when one explores the universe that there are a lot of characters that are similar very often. This character shoots powerful lighting bolts from their eyes, another one from the hands, another one with a powerful beam, another one with powerful energy or powerful energy blasts and it’s always nice to have characters that are different and that also exemplify the mutant predicament, much like Rogue did in the first film. The Nightcrawler character embodies that choice, and also serves the story, and is also a fan favorite." Alan Cumming has also been talking about his character “Nightcrawler is very difficult. I get woken up very early by lovely, lovely makeup people. You just have to get into a zone where you don't mind people poking at your face for four hours and spraying you with paint. I watch films in the mirror, but it's quite hard if they're subtitled. Nightcrawler has tattoos, which are very difficult to apply, and I rue the day I asked for them. I'm hoping that, if there's a sequel, a strange mutant accident will take place - Nightcrawler will have no more tattoos and be white. The technology is incredible. I'm hoping that the next time I could do Nightcrawler as me and have them put the makeup on afterwards.”

Sunday 12th January 2003: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Promo images have been released for X2 X Men 2 of Pyro.Click Here

Friday 13th December 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Patrick Stewart has been talking about the upcoming X Men 2 movie "there would be many new mutants in it. He said he felt this new movie would really be bigger than the first!"

Thursday 12th December 2002:X2 X Men 2 Update:
Some more key information on the recently finished filming X Men 2 has been revealed. Professor Xavier will be placed in a deep freeze by Storm, and he will be covered in white makeup, with ice crystals on his blue suit and head.

Friday 6th December 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Fox News was calling X Men 2 "X Men United" on TV last night, so is this a mistake or has the movie been retitled? More info as soon as.

Friday 6th December 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Not long now till the next X Men 2 trailer hits. It will air before The Two Towers starting on 18th December, but will more than likely debut on the net in the week before that and will be on Yahoo! movies. Stay tuned for the link.

Friday 6th December 2002: X Men 2 Update:
Some new images of Sir Ian Mckellen as Magneto have appeared online.
Click Here

Wednesday 4th December 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Ok, this next story was sent in to me and it is to be filed under SCURRILOUS RUMOUR. Oscar-winner Halle Berry allegedly told director Bryan Singer to "kiss my black ass" (or as some reports sugget: "kiss my black ass cracker, ya'll muthafuckers aint no thang"...oh sorry, that's 'Foxy Brown') on the set of X-Men 2.But things have been a little tense on the set of X2 after Bryan accused the cast of not backing him during an argument with the film's producer. But get this: Singer was allegedly given a painkiller by his driver that rendered him unable to finish filming. Producer tom De Santo then threatened to fire the driver. But when Singer heard of the threat he tried to get De Santo sacked, which, according to an insider, led the cast to tell studio bosses that 'if he goes, we go'. Singer then confronted the actors and berated them...before Magneto walked on, mindfucked the whole cast and crew before Wolverine appeared from out of nowhere with a frenzied berkerker attack and the words TO BE CONTINUED superimposed themselves onto Rebecca Rojimin's eyes...or something. Either way, X2 isn't the most fun place to be right now, the facts so far: Halle's walking after this one, expect another X movie before the suits do what they should've done to begin with, and give Wolverine his own film.

Tuesday 3rd December 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Patrick Stewart has been talking about the nearly finished filming X Men 2 "Eighteen months before we actually got to Kananaskis (in Alberta, Canada), we started wondering how the Professor was going to get to the jet. He couldn't use his wheelchair in all that snow. When we emerged from the underground prison, the three of us were in the lead with Famke Janssen, Hugh and the others behind us. Halle and Alan were dragging my legs through the snow. Suddenly Halle whispers in my ear that she's sinking in the snow. The cameras are rolling as Halle's feet go from underneath her and she slides down, pulling me with her, and Alan comes down next -- and the three of us are flat on our faces in snow with our heads side-by-side."

Tuesday 3rd December 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
SPOILER: Brian Cox has announced on British TV that his character Gen. Stryker will be chained to a dam that's about to explode near the end of the movie.

Tuesday 3rd December 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Looks like we might get to see Beast and Gambit in X Men 2 after all, as scenes have been shot showing Hank McCoy mutating into Beast and Gambit turning a pack of cards into flame in a New Orleans Bar. Methinks this sounds like DVD material!

Monday 2nd December 2002: X Men 2 Update:
Image of nearly every X Man in the movie has appeared online. Click Here

Tuesday 26th November 2002: X-Men 2 Update
Empire Online have visited the set of X-Men 2, and have posted their findings up on their site. Go check it out, but be sure to buy the magazine itself, which offers more X2 info, when it hits news stands on November 29th.

Saturday 23rd November 2002: X-Men 2 (X2) Update:
Three kick ass posters for X-Men 2 have hit the web. AICN scored the promos that feature Hugh Jackman as Wolverine as well as Nightcrawler and Rogue. Check them out here

Saturday 16th November 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Lots of cool new images have been popping up online this week.Click Here To View

Saturday 16th November 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Bryan Singer has been talking on why he chose Nightcrawler as the new X Men character we would see in X2 "Well, because he's a very interesting character. Once again, like Rogue in the first picture, there's a kind of dichotomy to his character that interests me; he's a religious character who has the physical proportions of a demon. He has a unique power that we haven't seen before; he teleports, which is a bit different from what all the other characters do and that's always important. One finds when one explores the universe that there are a lot of characters that are similar very often. This character shoots powerful lighting bolts from their eyes, another one from the hands, another one with a powerful beam, another one with powerful energy or powerful energy blasts and it's always nice to have characters that are different and that also exemplify the mutant predicament, much like Rogue did in the first film. The Nightcrawler character embodies that choice, and also serves the story, and is also a fan favorite"

Thursday 7th November 2002: X-Men 2 (X2) Update:
CountingDown.com have been speaking to Bryan Singer about the X-Men sequel, in which he revealed as to why he included Nightcrawler into the film."Well, because he’s a very interesting character," he said. "Once again, like Rogue in the first picture, there’s a kind of dichotomy to his character that interests me; he’s a religious character who has the physical proportions of a demon. He has a unique power that we haven’t seen before; he teleports, which is a bit different from what all the other characters do and that’s always important. One finds when one explores the universe that there are a lot of characters that are similar very often. This character shoots powerful lighting bolts from their eyes, another one from the hands, another one with a powerful beam, another one with powerful energy or powerful energy blasts and it’s always nice to have characters that are different and that also exemplify the mutant predicament, much like Rogue did in the first film. The Nightcrawler character embodies that choice, and also serves the story, and is also a fan favorite."

Wednesday 6th November 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
James Marsden has been talking about the upcoming X Men sequel "We're having fun, because everyone's shoulders have dropped, a few inches, since the first movie came out and it was a success. And now we're doing X2, and its going to be bigger and better. I've seen the movie, most of it, cut together. Its just a better movie. In the first movie I was just getting used to the suits, and the visor. The suits now are more comfortable, and I can see more out the visor.I think the X-Jet is pretty cool. We had the X-Jet on the first film, but it was this cramped quarters. This time it's much bigger." Patrick Stewart has been talking also "I think I actually enjoyed being in the oval office, most of all. Although I'm told the set is 10 times bigger than the actual real thing.My wheelchair. It's a wonderful piece of construction. I enjoy being in it. I work in it a lot. Its the only role that I have in which you know when the rest breaks come I get up and walk around."

Tuesday 5th November 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Gambit will NOT be appearing in X Men 2 it has been revealed.

Monday 4th November 2002: X-Men 2 (X2) Update:
E! Online claims that the scenes invloving Gambit in X2, have been cut from the movie.

Tuesday 29th October 2002: X-Men 2 (X2) Update:
The official website for X2 has gone live. You can access the site in seven different languages and download images, wallpapers, countdown clock, synopsis and a lot more. As with of the recent official websites, it requires Flash and does recommend a broadband connection. It is worth a look though. For all of the juicy stuff, click on the Cerebro link.

Sunday 27th October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
A smorgasboard of new photo's starring Nightcrawler Prof. X and Cyclops has appeared online.Click Here To View

Friday 25th October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Producer Lauren Schuler Donner has been talking about the upcoming X Men 2 movie "We needed Nightcrawler to draw you in not by his blue make-up, but by what's underneath the blue make-up, his versatility, his believability and his vulnerability. The filmmakers saw the character as a symbol of intolerance, one of the key themes of the comics and the movies."

Friday 25th October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Stand by your monitor for it's rumoured that the official X2 XMen 2 site will open up for business early next week!

Friday 25th October 2002:X2 X Men 2 Update:
Patrick Stewart has been reevaling some information concerning the upcoming X Men 2 movie "The peril is a good deal higher in this movie. (Stryker) is a really really bad guy. He makes Magneto look like one of us. You'll see the four cyborgs, three characters from the comic book, and another character who only has a number, who has an impact on Xavier's story because he's an ex-pupil." Co-Producer Lauren SChuller Donner has also been talking about whether we may see Beast "If there was a fan vote, he'd be in, everybody wants him. When we do a Beast story (in X3, presumably), it'll be a big one."

Monday 21st October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
The climactic battle scenes for the ending of X2 X Men 2 will be filmed in Kanaskis, Alberta it has been revealed. The scenes will focus on a battle between the X Men and the villains led by General Stryker. The filming is thought to be taking a week. The location has been chosen because of teh snow and it can look like they are at the coast.

Saturday 19th October 2002: X2 XMen 2Update:
Lots of new images today for the upcoming X Men 2 movie.

We've grouped them into three pages:
Click Here For Page 1, Page 2, Page3

Saturday 12th October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Shawn Ashmore has been talking about his enlarged role as Iceman in the upcoming X Men 2 movie " X-Men 2 will have all the excitement of the first film with some new and interesting characters added to the mix. I also think that fans can expect some amazing visuals and bigger and better action sequences. I think that it's safe to say that there will be some continued interaction between Rogue and Bobby. It's a pretty amazing feeling to be working with a cast with this much talent and experience. The first time around on X1 I really didn't get all that involved because I was only around for a few weeks, so to be brought back into the cast with a more important role is exciting. I think the best part of working on X2 is being a superhero for six months.

Saturday 12th October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Some filming information has been revealed with Bryan Singer announcing that he fiomed in Vancouver as he needed the bigger soundstages that were available in Vancouver, one of the reasons being there is snow in the final act.

Tuesday 8th October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Director Bryan Singer has been talking about the upcoming X Men 2 sequel and this is what he had to say "[Brian Cox]" plays a general named William Stryker," says Singer. "He's kind of an amalgam. He's not a religious figure; he's a military guy. But he has a history with a lot of [the X-Men] characters. He's a human nemesis from their past. When they were emerging, he was emerging-in his own way. For Nightcrawler, you won't know which side he's on. He sort of gets sucked in the middle of good and bad".

Tuesday 8th October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Coming Attractions have scored a massive scoop with an excellent set report from X Men 2. Here's a snip but a ton more info on their page. "Taking a well written page from the rusty worn design of the Matrix's Nebuchadnezzar ship, Alkali base looks and feels like a run down 50's style torture chamber. Chains adore the walls, various surgical tools adorn metal beds stained with blood. Remember Wolvie's nightmare inserts from the first movie? Take it, use it, expand on it so very nicely. This place is rigged for a mighty nice fight folks. (From all degrees of mutant belief - good, bad, patient, intolerant, psychotic)"

Monday 7th October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Patrick Stewart has been talking about the upcoming X Men 2 movie and things are looking good "In many respects I always looked on the first X-Men film as being like a very expensive extended trailer. We were introducing people to who the X-Men were, to what their world was like, who their enemies were and what their conflicts were going to be like. X-Men 2 is really extending those themes and notions that were just sketched in in the first film, and we're extending them much more deeply. So, there's my continuing conflict with Magneto and with a new enemy, a very, very dangerous individual [General Stryker] played by Brian Cox. And, of course, Xavier is attempting to hold the X-Men together and trying to change humankind's perception of what mutants are, which finally climaxes in the movie with a very strong scene in the Oval Office between Professor Xavier and the president of the United States [played by Cotter Smith]."

Monday 7th October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Another image of Sir Ian Mckellen as Magneto has been revealed today.
Click Here

Wednesday 2nd October 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
First image of Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler has appeared online. Click Here

Monday 23rd September 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Cool promo image for the upcoming X Men 2 movie has appeared online today.
Click Here

Wednesday 18th September 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update :
Alan Cummings has been talking about his role in the upcoming X Men sequel as Nightcrawler "Yesterday I killed someone by flicking them against the wall with my tail. It's an exhausting nightmare from hell, Yesterday was a 19-hour day. I sat in the makeup chair for seven hours. It's a little hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Right now, I'm lying on the grass with my dog and my boyfriend looking at the sea. There's a God."

Thursday 19th September 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Filming on the upcoming X Men sequel has been in Vancouver at St Andrews Cathedral yesterday.

Tuesday 17th September 2002: X2 X Men 2 Update:
Steve Bacic is rumoured to be in talks to star as Beast in the upcoming
Brian Singer movie X Men 2.

Tuesday 27th August 2002 : X Men 2 Update:
Hmm strange one this as it seems that the Comic Con footgae posted on the official site last week, as well as on Apple's site has been removed. NO word yet as to why, but it's not just broken links no trace at all.

Thursday 22nd August 2002 : X-Men 2 Update:
Everyone probably already knows but footage shown at a comic book convention hosted in San Diego a few weeks back will be appearing on the X-Men 2 official web site at...http://www.x-men-the-movie.com. Enjoy as it contains some new heroes and villains including Brian Cox's bad guy.

Monday 20th August X2 X Men 2 Update:
Sir Ian Mckellen has posted on his website the first image of himself as Magneto in the upcoming X Men sequel: Click here to view

Wednesday 14th August X2 X Men 2 Update:
Brian Cox has signed on to star in X-Men 2 (X2) for Fox. He will play William Stryker, an ultra-rightwing American fundamentalist with a rabid hatred of mutants who wages a war on the X-Men's stronghold.

9th July 2002: X-Men 2 Update:
Well, production has kicked off on X-Men 2 and the first on set pics have started to appear online. There are no actors featured, but this site has images of a house used for filming, Boston police cars rigged to explode and a massive gallery of storyboards. Hit the link above to take a look.

Also, I hadn't got around to posting a link to the rather boring teaser that appeared on the net last week, but here it is now.

X-Men 2 Teaser - Quicktime

7th June 2002: X Men 2 (X2) Update:
Kelly Hu, last seen opposite The Rock in The Scorpion King, will play Anne Reynolds in Brian Singer's X Men 2. Reynolds is the number two to lead villain William Styker. The role of Stryker remains uncast.

30th May 2002: X Men 2 (X2) Update:
British actor Alan Cumming, perhaps best known for his roles in Goldeneye and as the villain in the first Spy Kids movie, will play Nightcrawler in X Men 2. This from Variety...

Alan Cumming has signed to play the newest addition to the X-Men mutant superhero roster, playing a shadowy blue-tinted superhero with a tail whose great gift is the ability to teleport from one location to another. At the same time, "Tadpole" star Aaron Stanford has been set to play Pyro, a mutant who becomes part of the junior X-Men team. He has the ability to manipulate fire.

Production kicks off on June 17th.

28th May 2002: X Men 2 (X2) Update:
The Hollywood Reporter say that two new cast members have joined X Men 2. Dark Horizons picked up the story.

Ethan Embry has scored the role of 'Nightcrawler', the teleporting blue-skinned mutant in the upcoming "X-Men" sequel. 'Nightcrawler' and 'Pyro' are the only new mutants in the next chapter, 'Pyro' was also recently cast with newcomer Aaron Stanford ("Tadpole") scoring the part. Embry's most well known role so far was as the lead in teen comedy "Can't Hardly Wait", but has built a surprisingly large career with roles in the likes of "White Squall", "That Thing You Do", "Disturbing Behavior" and the TV series "Freakylinks". More here.

13th May 2002: X Men 2 (X2) Update:
Aint It Cool News' Moriarty has reviewed a recent draft of the X2 (X Men 2) screenplay. The script is dated 30th April 2002 and is the current draft as written by David Hayter 'with a story by David Hayter and Bryan Singer, and current revisions by Michael Dougherty & Dan Harris'. Here's a little snippet from Moriarty's review and to see the rest click the link above.

"Well, get ready, because X-MEN 2 is poised to take the winning streak of Marvel Films to a whole new level. It’s smart, fast-paced, filled with page after page of superhero action that we’ve never seen onscreen before, and it manages to not only introduce new characters successfully, but also fleshes out the mythology of the world and the characters we already met in a deeply satisfying way".


8/1/02: X-Men 2 Update:
Bryan Singer recently did an interview for CountingDown.com where he said;

"We've not done any casting yet. But I am happy with the script process, actually, quite happy [and] I think it will be X2. Not X, to the second power". (appeared on CountingDown.com)


2/1/01: X-Men 2 Update:
An update on the state of X-Men 2. The correct title is now thought to be X2 (actually X with a little 2 very much like the way Fincher did with Alien 3 - only I can't find a little 2 on this program!) Fox have stated that the release will be May 2nd 2003 with a shoot kicking off in May this year (that's 2002 folks). "X2" reunites all of the principal cast members of the 2000 blockbuster. Also returning are the original's key creative team, including director Bryan Singer; producers Ralph Winter, Lauren Shuler Donner and Avi Arad; and screenwriter David Hayter. (reported by Coming Soon).

13th Streeet recently posted a brief outline of the plot; "The story involves the appearance of the menacing 'Legacy Virus', a man-made disease that is only infectious to mutants, eventually resulting in their deaths. The X-Men must face the creator of the Virus as well as battle the spread of the disease as it vectors through the public."

I've also read quotes from Ian McKellen that state that some actors that appeared in he original movie are contracted for three movies. McKellan, who plays Magneto is only contracted for two.


15/8/01: X-Men 2 Update:
Aint It Cool posted an article sent in by a spy who sounds like he may work at Fox. "Perhaps you've heard this, perhaps not. X-MEN Pre-production is underway here at Fox. Storylines have come down to the Sentinels threat and the emergence of the Legacy Virus. With the Sentinel's story, I've heard the X-men will break Magneto out of prison and thus, dooming them with the image of being outlaws. As for the Legacy Virus, they have drawn parallels to the AIDS virus and the persecution and paranoia it first caused when it came onto the scene. Naturally, this leads to persecution and paranoia of mutants just as AIDS did for homosexuals back in the day". Hmm interesting, here's the full article. (originally appeared at Aint It Cool News).

26/7/01: X-Men 2 Update:
More news from the San Diego Comic Con. CountingDown.com have posted a promo poster that was produced for the show.


Updated : 4/7/01: X-Men 2 Update:
The sequel to the hugley popular X Men was planned from the start, as too is a third movie in the series. We know that most of the original cast members signed a two-movie deal before they started work on the first movie and also returning to direct will be Usual Suspects director Bryan Singer.

The first X Men movie, as I said, was extremely sucessful and there's no doubt as to why the sequel is moving ahead, possibly for a late 2002 release in the States.

Bryan Singer has said that he has started work on the screenplay, but two other writers, David Hayter and Zak Penn, have already submitted treatments. The plot is still unknown, but as most of the original cast will return, we take it that each of their characters will too. Among the characters hoping to make an appearence will be Beast (actor Jon Favereau has expressed his interest and at one point The Rock was attached).

The only other bit of news that I know at the moment is that filming is hinted to begin in January or February of 2002.

More news as and when!

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