X-Men (movie series)

***X-Men*** is an American superhero movie series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. An _X-Men_ movie produced by 20th Century Fox and directed by Bryan Singer was released in 2000. Singer returned for a sequel, _X2_, which was released in 2003. Due to him directing _Superman Returns_ (2006), Singer was replaced by Brett Ratner for the third and final movie of the original _X-Men_ trilogy, _X-Men: The Last Stand_ (2006).

The trilogy became a movie series with the release of _X-Men Origins: Wolverine_ (2009), a prequel movie based on the character Wolverine. In 2011, a prequel and soft reboot of the series, titled _X-Men: First Class_ was released. It focused on the younger versions of Charles Xavier / Professor X and Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, before they became enemies. In 2013, a second Wolverine movie, _The Wolverine_, was released, but it was set after _The Last Stand_. The prequel and the original series crossovered in _X-Men: Days of Future Past_ (2014). In the new movie, a new timeline is created and it is the one that the rest of the movies follow.

The first movie of the new timeline is _Deadpool_ (2016), which is based on the character of the same name. _X-Men: Apocalypse_ was released in the same year and was followed by the third and final Wolverine movie, _Logan_. _Deadpool 2_ was released in 2018 and the fourth and final movie of the _X-Men_ prequel series, _Dark Phoenix_, was released in 2019. The final movie of the series, _The New Mutants_, was released in 2020.

The _X-Men_ movie series also has two television series, _Legion_ (2017–2019) and _The Gifted_ (2017–2019). _Legion_ has three seasons and _The Gifted_ has two.

After The Walt Disney Company bought Fox in 2019, Marvel Studios took the rights to X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Having plans for their own X-Men movie set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), they canceled all planned X-Men projects. Patrick Stewart returned as a different version of Professor X in _Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness_ (2022) and Kelsey Grammer returned as a different version of Hank McCoy / Beast in _The Marvels_ (2023). In _Deadpool & Wolverine_ (2024), the third _Deadpool_ movie, a lot of the characters from the movie series will return, even though it is part of the MCU. An X-Men movie set in the MCU is in development.

The series has got positive reviews, with _X-Men: Days of Future Past_ and _Logan_ being considered two of the best superhero movies of all time. All 13 movies have made over $6 billion around the world.

## Movies

|scope="col"|Movies|scope="col"|U.S. release date|scope="col"|Director(s)|scope="col"|Screenwriter(s)|scope="col"|Story by|scope="col"|Producer(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align: left;"||rowspan="2"|Bryan Singer|David Hayter|Tom DeSanto & Bryan Singer|rowspan="2"|Lauren Shuler Donner & Ralph Winter|||||
|style="text-align: left;"||Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris & David Hayter|Zak Penn, David Hayter & Bryan Singer|||||||||
|style="text-align: left;"||Brett Ratner|colspan="2"|Simon Kinberg & Zak Penn|Lauren Shuler Donner, Ralph Winter & Avi Arad|||||||
|style="text-align: left;"||Gavin Hood|colspan="2"|David Benioff & Skip Woods|Lauren Shuler Donner, Ralph Winter, Hugh Jackman & John Palermo|||||||
|style="text-align: left;"||rowspan="2"|James Mangold|colspan="2"|Mark Bomback & Scott Frank|Lauren Shuler Donner & Hutch Parker||||||
|style="text-align: left;"||Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green|James Mangold|Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg & Hutch Parker||||||||
|style="text-align: left;"||Matthew Vaughn|Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn|Sheldon Turner & Bryan Singer|Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg & Gregory Goodman|||||||
|style="text-align: left;"||rowspan="2"|Bryan Singer|rowspan="2"|Simon Kinberg|Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg & Matthew Vaughn|rowspan="2"|Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg & Hutch Parker||||
|style="text-align: left;"||Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg, Michael Dougherty & Dan Harris||||||||||
|style="text-align: left;"||colspan="3"|Simon Kinberg|Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker & Todd Hallowell||||||||
|style="text-align: left;"||Tim Miller|colspan="2"|Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick|rowspan="2"|Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg & Ryan Reynolds||||||
|style="text-align: left;"||David Leitch|colspan="2"|Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick & Ryan Reynolds||||||||
|style="text-align:left"||Josh Boone|colspan="2"|Josh Boone & Knate Lee|Simon Kinberg, Karen Rosenfelt & Lauren Shuler Donner|||||||

## Television series

|rowspan="2"|**Series**|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|**Season**|rowspan="2"|Episodes|colspan="3"|Originally aired|rowspan="2"|Showrunner|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|8|February 8, 2017|March 29, 2017|rowspan="3"|FX|rowspan="3"|Noah Hawley|||
|2|11|April 3, 2018|June 12, 2018|||||||
|3|8|June 24, 2019|August 12, 2019|||||||
|1|13|October 2, 2017|January 15, 2018|rowspan="2"|Fox|rowspan="3"|Matt Nix|||
|2|16|September 25, 2018|February 26, 2019|||||||

## Timeline

The events of the films are conventionally placed into two main "timelines". The "original" timeline begins with _X-Men Origins: Wolverine_ (though multiple events in this film would be retconned or contradicted in others released afterward) and moving through _X-Men: First Class_, the original trilogy and _The Wolverine_ until the dystopian setting of _X-Men: Days of Future Past_. Starting from that film's ending, a "new" timeline is created, with the proceeding prequel films _X-Men: Apocalypse_ and _Dark Phoenix_ showing events differently than what was established before.

The setting of _Logan_ was initially implied by Hugh Jackman to be set in an alternate timeline and not following the prequel films, before director James Mangold stated that it was related; Marvel later officially classified the film as a separate universe from the film series in the _Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z_. Despite this, _Deadpool & Wolverine_ treats _Logan_ and the other _Deadpool_ films as part of the _X-Men_ film series timeline with most of the films existing within the same universe, designated again as Earth-10005.

### Box office

|rowspan="2" scope="col"|Movie|rowspan="2" scope="col"|U.S. release date|colspan="3" scope="col" class="unsortable"|Box office gross|colspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable"|All-time ranking|rowspan="2" scope="col"|Production budget|rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align: left;"|July 14, 2000|$157,299,718|$139,039,810|$296,339,528|330|479|$75million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|May 2, 2003|$214,949,694|$192,761,855|$407,711,549|178|282|$110million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|May 26, 2006|$234,362,462|$226,072,829|$460,435,291|140|236|$210million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|May 1, 2009|$179,883,157|$193,179,707|$373,062,864|252|320|$150million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|June 3, 2011|$146,408,305|$206,208,385|$352,616,690|373|360|$160million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|July 26, 2013|$132,556,852|$282,271,394|$414,828,246|449|271|$120million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|May 23, 2014|$233,921,534|$512,124,166|$746,045,700|143|98|$205million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|February 12, 2016|$363,070,709|$419,766,082|$782,836,791|46|89|$58million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|May 27, 2016|$155,442,489|$388,491,616|$543,934,105|336|178|$178million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|March 3, 2017|$226,277,068|$392,902,882|$619,179,950|154|144|$97million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|May 18, 2018|$324,591,735|$461,304,874|$785,896,609|64|87|$110million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|June 7, 2019|$65,845,974|$186,597,000|$252,442,974|1,246|584|$200million|||||
|style="text-align: left;"|August 28, 2020|$23,852,659|$25,316,935|$49,169,594|3,294|3,085|$67–80million|||||

### Reviews

|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Movie|scope="col" colspan="2"|Critical|scope="col"|Public|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|82% (174 reviews)|64 (33 reviews)|A−<section end=XMResponse />||||
|85% (247 reviews)|68 (37 reviews)|A<section end=X2Response />||||
|57% (239 reviews)|58 (38 reviews)|A−<section end=LastStandResponse />||||
|38% (259 reviews)|40 (39 reviews)|B+<section end=XMOWResponse />||||
|86% (299 reviews)|65 (38 reviews)|B+<section end=XMFCResponse />||||
|71% (262 reviews)|61 (46 reviews)|A−<section end=TWResponse />||||
|90% (334 reviews)|75 (44 reviews)|A<section end=XMDoFPResponse />||||
|85% (348 reviews)|65 (49 reviews)|A<section end=DResponse />||||
|47% (349 reviews)|52 (48 reviews)|A−<section end=XMAResponse />||||
|93% (429 reviews)|77 (51 reviews)|A−<section end=LResponse />||||
|84% (422 reviews)|66 (51 reviews)|A<section end=D2Response />||||
|22% (388 reviews)|43 (52 reviews)|B−<section end=DPResponse />||||
|36% (139 reviews)|43 (20 reviews)|<section end=TNMResponse />||||

## Infobox (film)

- **name**: X-Men
- **image**: Logo X-Men films.svg
- **distributor**: 20th Century Fox
- **released**: 2000–2020
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English
- **budget**: **Total (13 movies):**
$1.748billion
- **gross**: **Total (13 movies):**
$6.083billion