Logan finds Stryker in an adamantium smelting lab and remembers it as where he received his adamantium skeleton. Storm and Nightcrawler rescue the captured students, and Jean fights a mind-controlled Cyclops their battle frees Cyclops but damages the dam, which begins to rupture. She lets the rest of the mutants in and Magneto and Mystique go to disable Cerebro before the brainwashed Xavier can activate it. Jean reads Nightcrawler's mind and determines that Stryker's base is underground in a dam at Alkali Lake.ĭisguised as Logan, Mystique infiltrates Stryker's base. Magneto also tells Wolverine that Stryker was the man who grafted his adamantium skeleton onto his bones and is responsible for his amnesia. Stryker had also previously used Jason's powers to orchestrate Nightcrawler's attack as a pretense to gain approval to invade Xavier's mansion. Stryker's son, Jason, is a mutant with mind-controlling powers, whom Stryker will use to force Xavier to do this. Magneto explains to the group that Stryker has built the second Cerebro to use it and Xavier to telepathically kill every mutant on the planet. The X-Jet is attacked by fighter jets while flying back to the mansion and is shot down, but Magneto saves them from crashing. Logan, Rogue, Iceman, and Pyro visit Iceman's parents and brother in Boston and meet up with Storm, Jean, and Nightcrawler. The shape-shifting Mystique gains information about Magneto's prison and helps him escape while also discovering schematics for a second Cerebro. During the attack, Logan confronts Stryker, who addresses him as Wolverine and seems to know about his past. Colossus leads the remaining students to safety while Logan, Rogue, Iceman, and Pyro escape, and Stryker's assistant Yuriko Oyama captures Cyclops and Xavier. Stryker's forces invade the school and abduct some of the students. Military scientist Colonel William Stryker approaches the president and receives approval to investigate Xavier's mansion for their ties to mutants in the wake of the recent attack. Xavier and Cyclops go to question the imprisoned Magneto about the attack, while X-Men Storm and Jean Grey retrieve Nightcrawler. Later, Logan returns to Professor Xavier's school for mutants, and Xavier tracks Nightcrawler using Cerebro.
Jean Grey has been having premonitions and struggles to concentrate as her powers become increasingly difficult to control. 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, 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.
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