It is difficult to describe what it was to sit today 25 years ago to see X MenI was born in 1980 and loved and loved the superhero. Christopher reeve Overman Movies were everything for me. Posters and toys for Tim Burton Batman There were movies in my room. And every week, I will go to the local comic book shop to take new issues X-Main, X-Fores, XO Manover, SponAnd so many others. There was a golden era in the 1990s, especially for comic books, but on the big screen, there was not much.
Then, on July 14, 2000, a film was released in which Wolverin, Cyclops, Storm, Jean Gray, Professor X, Magneto, Mystic, Subartooth, and more, were in the same film at the same time, at the same time, at the same time. Quite just, there was nothing like this before, and nothing will happen again.
Of course, in six decades or between the rise and release of comic book superhero X MenHollywood had many attempts to bring superheroes on the big screen. And some, like the above DC films, actually worked. But in the case of Marvel, we were all camps, hard-to-sein captain America Or Fantastic four Films. We were still two years away from Sam Raimi Spider manRobert Downey is still eight years away from Junior iron ManBut, on that horrific July day, Marvel’s most famous team started their big screen with incredible results.
I remember sitting for the film not knowing what is expected. The Internet, of course, was present in 2000, and people had a lot of views on these new, dark costumes for the characters. It will be fine many years before the film studio many years ago, with these characters more comics-well costumes. So it was difficult to know whether this film would be true for those characters and comics or behave them like platings.
Then the film begins, and the first thing we see is a young boy who is separated from his parents in Aushwitz. This made it clear that it was taking these characters incredibly seriously and treating them with their honor. After this, it was told in the story about the mutant, about Vulwarin finding a place among his people, and more. Looking at the film back, it not only existed, but also impressed by casting, set, and more that came later. Last year we noticed that Huga Jackman returned to Wolverin in an R-Retured film, which earned more than one billion dollars. This is nothing more clear than that.
Unfortunately, you can’t talk X Men Now without mentioning Chhaya Cast on the film. X Men It was directed by Brian Singer, who was once a favorite filmmaker, who was later accused of several accounts of sexual harassment and misconduct. Of course, those magnitude can be difficult to separate art from the artist, especially when he directed a better sequel after three years, X2but even so, X Men The singer was not just a manufacture. All these actors, writers, producers, craftsmen, were officers of the studio, and more who worked on it. One of which was a small associate manufacturer named Kevin Pheiga, who will experience very large and better things in Marvel. He would even get control even after decades of X-Main when Marvel’s original company, Disney bought Fox. New one X Men The film is now in work, now under that banner.
Finally, X Men The worldwide production budget of $ 75 million grossly grossed around $ 300 million. It was a hit and the 20th-century Fox gave confidence to proceed with both X-Main and other characters. We got Daredevil films, Fantastic Four films and beyond that. It also gave other studios, Sony, especially, gave evidence that the audience would show the films that were not Superman or Batman. Two years later, Spider man Was released and was the largest early weekend ever.
So as we sit here in 2025, with a new Overman Film in theaters, a new Fantastic four The film is coming only in a week, and one fifth Avengers Movie in production, we can detect each of those seeds on July 14, 2000, when X Men Started his big screen. The film shouted the world that everywhere the audience loves all superheroes, and the rest is history.
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