Details

Release year: 2014

Storyline

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

Top credits

Directors

Bryan Singer

Writers

Cast

Patrick Stewart — Professor X
Ian McKellen — Magneto
Hugh Jackman — Logan, Wolverine
James McAvoy — Charles Xavier

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• The cameos of Cyclops (James Marsden) and Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) were so tightly guarded that the actors, as well as director Bryan Singer, outright lied about their appearance in the movie to keep their return a surprise. Both characters had been killed off in X3, as well as Professor Xavier (Sir Patrick Stewart) - events that the circumstances of this film would have erased/rewritten.

• (at around 45 mins) Two of Peter Maximoff's (Quicksilver's) relations are implied, but never outright stated in the movie. He first remarks to Magneto that his mom used to know someone that could manipulate metal. In the comics, Magneto is Quicksilver's father. This is further implied when Peter's mother sees Magneto on television and reacts with horror and recognition (at around 1h 45 mins). A deleted scene also addressed that Peter has two sisters, one of whom is his twin Wanda Maximoff, also known as Scarlet Witch. The other sister is much younger than the twins and was shown sitting in Peter's lap in a photo during a pan shot, her name is Lorna Dane; who eventually became the mutant known as Polaris, and future lover of Havok. It was confirmed in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), that Magneto is Peter's father.

• Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen were performing in a touring production of "Waiting for Godot" when Bryan Singer approached the actors about reprising their respective roles as Professor X and Magneto. According to McKellen, both men were utterly shocked, as they thought they had passed their roles on to James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, and would never play the characters again. Stewart and McKellen were delighted to return to two of their most popular roles, and to work with the younger actors playing the same characters as well.