X-Men's X-Men 2

Title: X-Men 2 English name: X2: X-Men United

Screenwriter: Zak Penn

Michael Doug Special Michael Dougherty

Dan Harris

Starring: Hugh Jackman

Patrick Stewart

Ian Mckellen

Famke Janssen

Halle Berry

Brian Cox Cox

Anna Paquin

Kelly Hu

Alan Cumming

Genre: Science Fiction/Action /Adventure

Rating: PG-13 (intense action, violence, some sexual content, and foul language)

Produced by: 20th Century Fox

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Release date: May 2, 2003 (80 countries and regions around the world)

Although "X-Men 2" has been renamed X2: X-Men United (originally named -Men 2), but the film is actually a sequel to the "X-Men" from the year before. The film is adapted from the American cartoon of the same name. As of this year, it has been best-selling in the United States for 40 years and has become the best-selling book in the history of American comics with sales of nearly 8 billion copies. The previous episode of this film had impressive results when it was released the year before last. It earned a box office of 57.5 million US dollars in one week of release, and the total box office exceeded 120 million. Therefore, this sequel film is expected by movie fans around the world and is optimistic by professionals. It is regarded as It is one of the summer movies with the highest grossing potential in 2003 and is expected to gross at least US$150 million.

Director Brian once pointed out: "X-Men 2" is not a sequel movie, it is an adventure derived from the previous story. Join the new generation of X-Men and the new generation of bad guys to have greater conflicts and decisive battles in the human world. Based on the previous episode, the film has added more mutants, reaching a total of 50, showing a series of special effects like David's magic. In addition to all the actors returning to "X-Men 2", director Bryan Singer will also take over the director's reins and continue to work with the original cast. Well-known producers Roland Schuyler, Donner and Leif Witt and other producers will also continue Responsible for production work.

The film started shooting on June 17, 2002, and was initially shot in Victoria, British Columbia, where Professor X's school for mutants is located. The filming crew then moved to Vancouver, where there is the largest soundstage in North America - the Sears Studio, which is approximately 113,000 square feet, twice the size of the Stryker base, and the equipment here is quite sophisticated, "X-Men 2" "The film crew then planned to complete most of the scenes here.

Since there will be many major productions with budgets of over 100 million US dollars in the US film market this year, major film companies have not taken it lightly. Based on these factors, the producer of "X-Men 2" 20th Century Fox not only invested huge amounts of advertising money in the early stage, but also actively followed the example of "Star Wars 2" and "Lord of the Rings" in order to surpass Warner's subsequent grand launch of "The Matrix 2: Reloaded" on May 15. " series adopts a global simultaneous release distribution strategy and is scheduled to be released simultaneously in 80 countries and regions around the world on May 2. Such a huge release offensive broke the record of "Star Wars 2" being released simultaneously in 74 countries and regions around the world on May 16, 2002. In the United States alone, "X-Men 2" will be released in 3,500 theaters and as many as 8,500 screens. The simultaneous premiere in more than 80 countries or regions around the world is really shocking, but it is a pity that mainland China, with such a large population, is not among these 80. We have to wait helplessly with drooling eyes, just like now The current release of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is more than 4 months later than others, and the pirates are very happy. In order to cooperate with the publicity, the official website of 20th Century Fox even has 9 text materials to choose from including English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, and Italian, which definitely breaks the precedent of American film companies.