Quotes
 [Cyclops doesn`t know if Logan`s an imposter]
Wolverine: Hey! It`s me.
Cyclops: Prove it!
Wolverine: You`re a dick.
Cyclops: Okay. Wolverine: Magneto`s right: there is a war coming. Are you sure you`re on the right side?
Storm: At least I`ve chosen a side.
[about his claws]
Rogue: When they come out... does it hurt?
Wolverine: Every time.
Bobby: Welcome to Mutant High.
Dr. Jean Grey: Mutants are not the ones mankind should fear.
[to Senator Kelly]
Magneto: Are you a God-fearing man, Senator? That is such a strange phrase. I`ve always thought of God as a teacher; a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding. You see, I think what you really fear is me. Me and my kind. The Brotherhood of Mutants. Oh, it`s not so surprising really. Mankind has always feared what it doesn`t understand. Well, don`t fear God, Senator, and certainly don`t fear me. Not any more.
Magneto: Welcome to the future.
Senator Kelly: I have here a list of names of identified mutants living right here in the United States.
Dr. Jean Grey: Senator...
Senator Kelly: Here`s a girl in Illinois who can walk through walls. Now what`s to stop her from walking into a bank vault, or the White House, or
[indicating the gallery]
Senator Kelly: into their houses?
Dr. Jean Grey: Senator, please...
Senator Kelly: ...and there are even rumors, Miss Grey, of mutants so powerful that they can enter our minds and control our thoughts, taking away our God-given free will. Now I think the American people deserve the right to decide if they want their children to be in school with mutants. To be taught by mutants! Ladies and gentlemen, the truth is that mutants are very real, and that they are among us. We must know who they are, and above all, what they can do!
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Ah, Logan. I`d like you to meet Ororo Monroe, also called Storm. This is Scott Summers, also called Cyclops. They saved your life. I believe you already know Dr. Jean Grey. You are in my School for the Gifted for Mutants. You`ll be safe here from Magneto.
Wolverine: What`s a Magneto?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: A very powerful mutant. He believes that a war is brewing between mutants and the rest of humanity. I`ve been following his activities for some time. The man who attacked you is an associate of his called Sabertooth.
Wolverine: Sabertooth?
[looks at Storm]
Wolverine: Storm.
[looks at Xavier]
Wolverine: What do they call you? "Wheels"? This is the stupidest thing I`ve ever heard. Students.
[Logan has found his way to the Professor`s office]
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: I`m Charles Xavier. Would you like some breakfast?
Logan: Where am I?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Westchester, New York. My people brought you here for medical attention.
Logan: I don`t need medical attention.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Yes, of course.
Wolverine: Jean...
Dr. Jean Grey: Scott, when I tell you, open your eyes.
Cyclops: No!
Dr. Jean Grey: Trust me.
[Wolverine takes out Cyclops` visor]
Wolverine: You drop something?
[to Storm]
Sabretooth: You owe me a scream.
Sabretooth: [Sabretooth has Storm pinned to the wall]
[growls]
Sabretooth: Scream for me.
[to Sabretooth]
Wolverine: Hey, bub, I`m not finished with you yet.
Senator Kelly: What the hell have you done to me?
Magneto: Senator, this is pointless. Who would take you in now that your one of us?
Wolverine: This is mine!
[Logan confronts Magneto for the first time]
Magneto: You must be Wolverine. That remarkable metal doesn`t run through your entire body, does it?
Logan: What do you want with me?
Magneto: You? My dear boy, who ever said I wanted you?
[Logan looks at Marie]
Rogue: I saved your life!
Logan: No, you didn`t.
[after getting in the car with Logan/Wolverine]
Rogue: You don`t have anything to eat, do you?
[Logan reaches across her into the glove compartment and hands her something to eat]
Rogue: I`m Rogue.
[looks across the seat to look at him and spots his dog tag]
Rogue: Were you in the army? Doesn`t, doesn`t that mean you were in the army?
[she stops talking and looks around. She spots the trailer in the back]
Rogue: Wow.
Logan: What?
Rogue: It`s just that, suddenly my life doesn`t look that bad.
Logan: Well, if you prefer the road...
Rogue: [quickly] No, it looks great. It looks cozy.
[They go quiet. Rogue begins to rub her cold hand together. Logan turns on the heater]
Logan: Put your hands on the heater.
[He reaches for her hand and she pulls back]
Logan: I`m not gonna hurt you kid.
Rogue: [shakes her head and puts back on her gloves] It`s nothing personal. It`s just that, when people touch my skin, something happens.
Logan: What?
Rogue: I don`t know, they just get hurt.
Logan: Fair enough. So, what kind of name is Rogue?
Rogue: I don`t know. What kind of name is Wolverine?
Logan: My name is Logan.
Rogue: Marie.
Logan: [Logan`s first line] Beer.
Rogue: [tracing the passage along a map] Niagra Falls... up the Canadian Rockies, and then... it`s only a few hundred miles to Anchorage.
Rogue`s Boyfriend: Won`t it be kinda cold?
Rogue: Well, that`s the point, stupid, otherwise it wouldn`t be an adventure!
Dr. Jean Grey: Ladies and gentlemen, we are now seeing the beginnings of another stage of human evolution. These mutations manifest at puberty, and are often triggered by periods of heightened emotional stress.
Senator Kelly: Thank you, Miss Grey! That was-quite educational. However it fails to address the issue which is the focus of this hearing. Three words: are mutants dangerous.
Magneto: [pointing to his head] Are you sneaking around in here, Charles? Whatever are you looking for?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: I`m looking for hope.
Magneto: I will bring you hope, old friend, and I ask only one thing in return - don`t get in my way.
[walks away]
Magneto: We are the future, Charles, not them. They no longer matter.
Rogue: You know, you should wear your seat belt.
Wolverine: Now look, kid, I don`t need advice on auto...
[car crashes]
Dr. Jean Grey: I think you`ll be comfortable here.
Wolverine: Where`s your room?
Dr. Jean Grey: With Scott, down the hall.
Wolverine: Is that your gift? Putting up with that guy?
Dr. Jean Grey: Actually, I`m telekinetic. I can move things with my mind.
Wolverine: Really? What kind of things?
Dr. Jean Grey: [shuts closet doors behind him with her mind] All kinds of things. I also have some telepathic ability.
Wolverine: Like the Professor?
Dr. Jean Grey: Nowhere near that powerful. But he`s teaching me to develop it.
Wolverine: I`m sure he is. So read my mind.
Dr. Jean Grey: I`d rather not.
Wolverine: C`mon. You afraid you might like it?
Dr. Jean Grey: I doubt it.
[the X-Men help Senator Kelly, a victim of Magneto`s mutant machine]
Senator Kelly: I was afraid they`d...
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Treat you like a mutant?
[pause]
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: We`re not what you think. Not all of us.
Senator Kelly: Tell that to the ones who did this to me.
Rogue: The first boy I ever kissed ended up in a coma for three weeks. I can still feel him inside my head. It`s the same with you.
Wolverine: There`s not many people that`ll understand what you`re going through. But I think this guy, Xavier, is one of them. He seems to genuinely want to help you. And that`s a rare thing, for people like us.
Magneto: You homo sapiens and your guns.
[commenting on the X-Men uniforms]
Wolverine: You actually go outside in these things?
Cyclops: Well, what would you prefer? Yellow spandex?
Logan: What the hell are you doing?
Rogue: I`m sorry. I need a ride, I thought you could help me. I...
Logan: Get out!
Rogue: Where am I supposed to go?
Logan: I don`t know.
Rogue: You don`t know, or you don`t care?
Logan: Pick one.
Storm: Help us! Fight with us!
Logan: Fight with you! Join the team? Be an X-Man? Who the hell do you think you are? You`re a mutant. The whole world out there is full of people who hate and fear you and you`re wasting your time trying to protect them? I`ve got better things to do!
Senator Kelly: You`re evading the real question. Three words: Are mutants dangerous?
Doctor Jean Grey: That`s an unfair question, Senator Kelly. After all, the wrong person behind the wheel of a car can be dangerous.
Senator Kelly: Well, we do license people to drive.
Doctor Jean Grey: But not to live.
Storm: Do you know what happens to a toad when it`s struck by lightning?
[pause]
Storm: The same thing that happens to everything else.
[last lines]
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: And I will always be there, old friend.
[trapped inside the Statue of Liberty]
Cyclops: Storm, fry him!
Magneto: Oh yes! A bolt of lightning into a huge copper conductor. I thought you lived at a school?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Don`t give up on them, Erik.
Magneto: What would you have me do, Charles? I`ve heard these arguments before.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: That was a long time ago. Mankind has evolved since then.
Magneto: Yes, into us.
Mystique: You know, people like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child.
[to Dr. Jean Grey]
Wolverine: So, couldn`t wait to get my shirt off again, huh?
[discussing Wolverine]
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: There are more powerful mutants out there. Why should this one be so important?
Cyclops: Maybe it`s his way with people.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: You don`t like him?
Cyclops: How could you tell?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Well, I am psychic, you know.
Wolverine: Well, it certainly is a big, round room.
Wolverine: You going to tell me to stay away from your girl?
Cyclops: If I had to do that, she wouldn`t be my girl.
Wolverine: Well, then I guess you`ve got nothing to worry about, do ya, Cyclops?
Cyclops: It must burn you up that a boy like me saved your life, huh? Gotta be careful. I might not be there next time. Oh, and Logan - stay away from my girl.
Wolverine: Felt like she killed me.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: If she held on any longer, she could have.
[first lines]
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: [narration] Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.
[In the ring, before the fight with Wolverine]
Emcee: Whatever you do, don`t hit him in the balls.
Stu: You said "anything goes"!
Emcee: Anything goes, but he`ll take it personal.
[At the Statue of Liberty]
Magneto: Magnificent, isn`t she?
Rogue: I`ve seen it.
Magneto: I first saw her in 1949. America was going to be the land of tolerance. Peace.
Rogue: Are you going to kill me?
Magneto: Yes.
Rogue: Why?
Magneto: Because there is no land of tolerance. There is no peace. Not here, or anywhere else.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Where are you going?
Wolverine: To find her.
Storm: How?
Wolverine: The traditional way: look!
Logan: There`s someone here.
Cyclops: Where?
Logan: I don`t know. Keep your eye open.
[Preparing Senator Kelly for the mutation machine]
Senator Kelly: What are you going to do?
Magneto: Let`s just say God works too slow.
Magneto: Does it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they will pass that foolish law or one just like it and come for you? And your children?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: It does indeed.
Magneto: What do you do, when you wake up to that?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor fool who comes to that school... looking for trouble.
Cyclops: All right, we can insert here at the George Washington Bridge, come around the bank just off of Manhattan, land on the far side of Liberty Island, here.
Wolverine: What about harbor patrol? Radar?
Cyclops: If they have anything that can pick up our jet, they deserve to catch us.
Senator Kelly: [on registering mutants] We must know who they are, and above all, what they can do.
Toad: Don`t you people ever die?
Logan: Everybody get out of here!
Storm: Why?
Logan: I can`t move.
Magneto: Ah, my brothers, welcome.
[Looks at Logan]
Magneto: And you,let`s point those claws of your in the safer direction.
[Sabretooth has returned without Rogue]
Toad: Weren`t you supposed to bring someone back with you?
Sabretooth: [growls] Shut up!
Logan: Have you ever...
Dr. Jean Grey: Used Cerebro? No. It takes a degree of control and for someone like me it`s...
Cyclops: Dangerous.
Stu: You owe me some money.
Stu`s friend: Come on Stu.
Stu: No one takes beating like that without a mark to show for it.
Stu`s friend: Come on Stu.
Wolverine: You lost your money. You keep this up you`ll lose something else.
Stu: I know what you are.
Wolverine: Gotta get her out of there. Cyclops, can you hit it?
Cyclops: The ring`s moving too fast.
Wolverine: Just shoot it!
Cyclops: I`ll kill her!
Storm: You could fly right over the torch.
Wolverine: Then let me go. If I don`t make it, then at least you can still blast the damn thing!
Cyclops: All right, do it. Jean use your power, try to steady him.
Storm: Hang on to something.
Magneto: Why do none of you understand what I`m trying to do? Those people down there- they control our fate and the fate of every other mutant! Well, soon our fate will be theirs.
[Rogue screams for help]
Wolverine: You`re so full of shit! If you`re really so righteous, it`d be you in that thing.
Magneto: Why not come out where I can see you, Charles?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: What do you want her for?
Magneto: Can`t you read my mind? What now? Save the girl? You`ll have to kill me, Charles. And what will that accomplish? Let them pass that law and they`ll have you in chains with a number burned into your forehead.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: It won`t be that way.
Magneto: Then kill me and find out. Then release me. Fine!
Wolverine: That tickles.
Dr. Jean Grey: Hey.
Wolverine: Hey.
Dr. Jean Grey: How are you feeling.
Wolverine: Fantastic.
[the bartender is pointing his shotgun at Wolverine]
Bartender: Get out of my bar, freak!
[Just before the accident]
Rogue: You know you should wear your seatbelt.
[Cyclops lands the plane abruptly]
Cyclops: Sorry.
Wolverine: You call that a landing?
Cyclops: Wait a second! You said this machine draws its power from Magneto, and that it weakened him.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Yes, in fact it nearly killed him.
Wolverine: He`s going to transfer his power to Rogue and use her to power the machine.
[Magneto shoots Rogue with a tranquilizer dart while she runs away]
Magneto: Young people.
[to Sabertooth, who has just been thrown through the wall by Storm]
Toad: Quit playin` around!
Magneto: Toad has a wicked tongue, Senator. Just like you.
Rogue: Hey.
[Logan turns and looks at her]
Rogue: You running again?
Logan: No, not really. I`ve got some things to take care of up North.
Rogue: Oh.
[They stand in silence for a few moments, then Logan reaches out and plays with her hair. She jumps back a little and then smiles]
Rogue: I kinda like it.
Logan: Yeah.
Rogue: I don`t want you to go.
[Logan looks around at his small pack of stuff and then undoes his dog tags. Then he takes her hand, places them inside, then pushes her fingers over them. She looks up at him]
Logan: I`ll be back for this.
[He turns and walks out the door with her staring after him, smiling]
Mystique: [as Bobby] Never use your power against another mutant.
Dr. Jean Grey: I saw Senator Kelly.
Magneto: So, the senator survived the fall, and the swim to shore. He`s become more powerful than I imagined.
Dr. Jean Grey: He`s dead. Just like all those people out there will be.
Storm: It`s true. I watched him die.
Magneto: Are you sure you saw what you saw?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Mankind is not evil, just... uninformed.
Wolverine: How is she?
Dr. Jean Grey: She`s fine.
[pause]
Dr. Jean Grey: I think she`s still taken with you.
Wolverine: Well you can tell her... my heart belongs to... someone else.
Magneto: What happended?
Sabretooth: They knew.
Magneto: Charles!
[Magneto examins Wolverine`s army dog tags that Sabertooth is now wearing]
Magneto: Where`s the mutant now?
Sabretooth: With them.
Magneto: I have made the first move. That is all they know. Come, the UN summit is approaching. Time for our little test.
Dr. Jean Grey: [after examining Wolverine] The metal is an alloy called adamantium, supposedly indestructible. It`s been surgically grafted to his entire skeleton.
Storm: How could he have survived a procedure like that?
Dr. Jean Grey: His mutation. He has uncharted regenerative capabilities, enabling him to heal rapidly. It also makes his age impossible to determine. He could very well be older than you, Professor.
Cyclops: Who did this to him?
Dr. Jean Grey: He doesn`t know. Nor does he remember anything about his life before it happened.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Experimentation on mutants. It`s not unheard of, but I`ve never seen anything like this before.
Cyclops: What do you think Magneto wants with him?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: I`m not entirely sure it`s him Magneto wants.
Wolverine: It`s me.
Cyclops: Prove it.
Wolverine: You`re a dick.
Cyclops: Okay.
[Storm comes back up through the elevator]
Toad: Don`t you people ever die?
Trivia
Dougray Scott was cast to play Wolverine. He had to leave the project because of his work on Mission: Impossible II (2000).
Hugh Jackman took cold showers to help him create the character Wolverine`s trademark "berserk rage."
There were three types of Wolverine claws - plastic, wood, and steel - and more than 700 individual claw blades were used by Hugh Jackman and his four stunt doubles.
When in full Mystique makeup, about 60 percent of Rebecca Romijn`s body was covered in prostheses.
Most of the eye effects were done by using special contact lenses that the actors found very uncomfortable to wear. Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (Mystique) could only wear her lenses for an hour at a time and had only 10% vision. Halle Berry (Storm) was supposed to wear opaque white lenses for the scenes where she uses her weather-control powers. However, she found the lenses unbearable, so her eye effects had to be done entirely through CGI.
Ten Wolverine costumes were built out of thick leather and PVC, and were designed to take a beating. All of them were destroyed to some extent during filming.
Hugh Jackman had to undergo training from a hand-to-hand combat specialist to learn how to handle the Wolverine claws.
The control stick that Cyclops uses to pilot the X-Men jet is a CH brand "Flightstick Pro" computer joystick.
Bryan Singer had one of his stunt men, Scott Leva, dress in a Spider-Man suit and confront actors James Marsden (Cyclops), Famke Janssen (Jean Grey), and Halle Berry (Storm) on set one day as a joke. Leva had actually dressed up in an identical Spider-Man costume once before for Marvel Comics in 1985 for the cover of "The Amazing Spider-Man" comic book, issue #262. In the outtake, Spider-Man realizes that he`s in the wrong movie, backs off and runs away, with Cyclops chasing after him shortly after. This can be seen as an "Easter Egg" on the first DVD edition of the movie, but not the "X-Men 1.5" DVD.
Despite being nearly 6 feet tall, James Marsden had to wear platform shoes so that he would appear taller than Hugh Jackman (6`2").
After knocking Storm down an elevator shaft, Toad (Ray Park) kicks away the bar that was holding the elevator doors open, grabs the bar, spins it over his head and then holds it in an attack posture in the same way he does with the double-ended lightsaber as Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
When Wolverine first explores the school he`s wearing black pants, no shirt or shoes, and is confronted by mirrors. This echoes Bruce Lee`s appearance in Enter the Dragon (1973).
Many of the X-Men from the comics who don`t have major roles in the film appear as minor characters in the school. Among them are: Jubilee, the Asian-American girl wearing a yellow jacket, hoop earrings with sunglasses above her forehead; Shadowcat, also known as Kitty Pryde; Colossus; Iceman, aka Bobby Drake, and Pyro.
George Buza, the trucker, portrayed the voice of Beast in the "X-Men" (1992) animated series.
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# Ian McKellen`s character, Magneto, is a Jew who survived the Holocaust. In Apt Pupil (1998), also directed by Bryan Singer McKellen portrays a Nazi who committed Holocaust atrocities.
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# When Wolverine complains about their outfits, Cyclops asks him if he`d prefer yellow spandex. This in-joke refers to the fact that the X-Men`s costumes in the comics are predominantly yellow spandex. Incidentally, after the sucess of this movie, the costume designs of the comics were changed to a "black leather" design similar to the one`s worn in the film.
After a defeated Storm re-enters the fight, Toad complains, "Don`t you people ever die?" This is an in-joke since, in the comics, almost all of the characters featured have "died" at least once, then come back.
The character Kitty Pryde (the girl who walks through the wall) was originally named after a real-life girl X-Men artist John Byrne knew in Calgary, Canada. When the movie was released there, local media managed to track down the "real" Kitty Pryde.
Toad was originally a hunchback, but that was changed so as not to interfere with Ray Park`s martial arts abilities.
The sunglasses Cyclops wears are Oakley "X-Metals", more specifically, the "Juliet" style with Ruby lenses. In keeping with the mythos of the comic book character, Cyclops must wear lenses with some form of ruby protection to contain his optic blasts which are uncontrollable without them.
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# Cameo: [Stan Lee] X-Men creator and executive producer is a man near a hot dog stand on the beach when Senator Kelly comes out of the water.
Cameo: [David Hayter] The writer appears as one of the cops near the end.
The police officer stabbed by Sabertooth in front of the Statue of Liberty was played by D.B. Sweeney, who is a fan of the X-Men and had tried out for the part of Cyclops.
Michael Chabon was approached to write the script.
Senator Kelly`s line at the beginning of the movie about having a list of known mutants living in the United States is based on Senator Joseph McCarthy`s famous speech about having a list of known communists working in the State Department.
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# While the WGA credits approbation, several writers involved in writing the screenplay decided to not be credited, and `David Hayter` received sole credit. The writers who contributed uncredited are: Ed Solomon, Christopher McQuarrie, Joss Whedon, James Schamus & John Logan.
After the film was completed, the wheelchair that the character Professor Xavier used was sold in an auction to Patrick Stewart`s attorney, and then rented back by the production company for X2 (2003).
Wolverine`s line, "What do they call you, `Wheels?`" was an ad-lib by Hugh Jackman (the scripted line was, "What do they call you, Baldie?").
James Marsden turned down a role in Soul Survivors (2001), in order to take part in this movie.
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# A scene appears in a TV spot for the film, but does not appear in the movie, of an extended talk between Scott Summers (James Marsden) and Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) regarding Logan`s stay at the mansion. Scott tells the Professor "He`s not one of us. There`s no way he`s going to take orders." Xavier politely replies, "Give him an order worth following. He`ll take it." More of this extended scene appears in the official movie adaptation novels and books, but it was cut out of the final film to meet the allowed running time.
The bar scenes were shot in the same brewery as the concentration camp scenes.
The last scene shot in Canada as part of principal photography was the first scene in the movie - that of rain falling on mud in the concentration camp.
Neither Patrick Stewart nor Sir Ian McKellen know how to play chess.
Angela Bassett turned down the role of Storm, while Aaron Eckhart and Viggo Mortensen were both considered for the role of Wolverine
Jada Pinkett Smith was considered for the role of Storm
When the project was in development at Carolco pictures, Michael Biehn was the front runner for the role of Cyclops.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was considered for the role of Rogue
Bryan Singer wrote the duologue between Wolverine and Cyclops when Cyclops refers to `yellow spandex` specifically to have a dig at fans on the Internet who complained about the X-Men`s costumes.
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# In the Hamilton location (the train station scenes), the director, Bryan Singer, was mistaken for an onlooker, and was harassed by a policeman, not letting him join the production team for some moments.
In the bar scene, after the fight where Wolverine gains some money, the guy behind the man that accuses Wolverine of cheating is Malcolm Nefsky, the film`s best boy grip. Because of the way the scene was filmed, someone was needed to deliver the line, and he was called because no certified "extra" was nearby.
The last scenes to be shot were the ones where Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison) emerges from water (in Santa Monica, California). They were shot in early May, and the film was released on the last days of July.
Hugh Jackman got his testicles caught in his harness after a 6 foot jump off the set`s Statue of Liberty.
The Mansion used as the Xavier school, is the same one Billy and his family lived in in Billy Madison (1995)
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# Joss Whedon wrote a draft version of the script, but the suggestions he made to fix what he felt were fundamental problems with the film were not incorporated. Only two pieces of dialogue from his rewrite appeared in the final film. One is the exchange when Cyclops doesn`t know if Wolverine is an impostor ("Prove it!" "You`re a dick"); the other is Storm`s "Do you know what happens when a toad gets hit by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else." which he imagined as a lighthearted, offhand line.
Numerous actors were considered for the role of Wolverine. Bryan Singer talked to Mel Gibson, `Russell Crowe (I)`, Viggo Mortensen and Edward Norton, while Fox were interested in Keanu Reeves.
During a scene with Rogue, it is possible to see Bobby "Iceman" Drake`s breath even though it seems to be midsummer (an after effect of his ice-powers?). Fans noticed this detail and credited to director Bryan Singer`s dedication to the story and the particulars of each character`s powers. However, it was a mistake and never noticed nor intended for the film (in fact, the Iceman character is being impersonated by Mystique at the time). The effect was intentionally added to the story of the movie`s sequel X2 (2003), however, when Iceman and Rogue share a kiss.
Senator Kelly calls his aide "Henry" several times and when he asks Magneto what he`s done with Henry Magneto replies "Mr. Gyrich has been dead for some time." In the cartoon and in the comics Henry Gyrich was a member of several United States national security agencies, and was responsible for quite a bit of misery in the X-Men`s lives, including causing Storm to lose her powers and ordering the creation of one of the many models of Sentinels.
The very first scene shot for the movie was the World Summit scene on Liberty Island where representatives from each country are greeted. Two of the guests (identified by Bryan Singer as king and queen of Poland) are played by Bryan Singer`s father and stepmother.
Hugh Jackman`s physique looks slightly different in different scenes because he was cast 1.5 months after principal photography had started and kept working out extensively while shooting continued.
Patrick Stewart was the very first mutant to be cast.
Similar to Magneto`s and Rogue`s background segments, scenes explaining Storm`s and Cyclops` backgrounds were scripted and storyboarded, but never shot. Storm`s background segment involved her changing the weather drastically in her home country in Africa and causing vast damage; Cyclops` story would show him manifesting his mutant power at school as a teenager, causing him to accidentally destroy a school bathroom. There was a brief talk of shooting these scenes while shooting X2 (2003) in order to insert them into the X-Men Special Edition DVD, but the idea was later scrapped. However, the bathroom set (which had actually been built) was used for the scene in X2 where Mystique drugs Magneto`s guard with a metal solution.
Rebecca Romijn`s make-up process involved putting on more than 60 self-adhesive prosthetics developed specifically for the movie, followed by air-brushing the blue paint. The make-up team was reluctant in using food coloring for her make-up because of its difficulty to remove, but used it after discovering a new chemical that could very quickly and easily remove food coloring.
Tyler Mane kept the large black contact lenses in for too long one day and was blinded for a day and had to wear bandages.
In the late 1980s, Carolco Pictures bought the film rights of X-Men from Marvel. James Cameron was set to produce, along with his production company Lightstorm Entertainment, which was in line to distribute. Well-known X-Men Comic book writer Chris Claremont was involved in meetings with X-Men creator Stan Lee, James Cameron, and executives at Carolco about the project. After James Cameron moved on to the Spider-Man (2002) project and Carolco went bankrupt, the rights became available and were purchased by 20th Century Fox.
Natalie Portman turned down the offer to play Rogue.
Bruce Davison was the first actor to be cast.
The song used for the teaser trailer is "Chinese Burn" by Curve.
In this movie, Halle Berry had the African Accent that Storm had in the comic books; but in X2 (2003), she decided not to use the accent.
Vince Vaughn was briefly in talks for the part of Cyclops, before James Caviezel was cast in the part. Caviezel backed out at the last minute and was quickly replaced by James Marsden.
Musician Glenn Danzig, whose muscular physique and height (5`4") almost perfectly matched the Wolverine character portrayed in the comic books, was interviewed for the role of Wolverine. A common myth has it that he was offered a part in the movie, but this confusion occurs largely because Danzig was actually offered the role some ten years earlier - when Carolco held the rights to an X-Men film and was considering a low-budget production. However, due to the high-budget and status of the 2000 production, as well as Danzig`s age and relative lack of acting experience, and the requirement that the Wolverine actor be signed to a multi-picture deal spanning several years, it is highly unlikely that Danzig could have won the role in Singer`s film. Regardless, a scheduling conflict prevented him from any subsequent pursuit of the role.
28 drafts of the script were written, and halfway through those drafts, the writers were still rewriting the whole story every time.
Jeri Ryan was in the running for Mystique.
`Maria Bello (I)` was considered for the role of Jean Grey at one point.
Jean-Claude Van Damme was considered for the role of Wolverine at one point.
According to Bryan Singer at Wondercon 2006, he initially approached John Williams to compose the score for the film, but Williams wasn`t available at the time because he was scoring Saving Private Ryan (1998).
In order to keep her look a secret, Rebecca Romijn had to sit in an isolated, windowless room when not required for shooting. To celebrate her last day on set, Romijn brought in a bottle of tequila to do shots with her fellow cast and crew during a break in filming. Unfortunately, that day she happened to be filming the Wolverene/Mystique fight scene, and she threw up blue-colored vomit (from the chemicals in her make-up) all over Hugh Jackman.
Wary of the risk of starting an expensive franchise that could have died after just one film, Fox`s studio executives assigned the film a budget of only $75 million, quite low for a big summer tent-pole release, when the average summer blockbuster budget at the time was upwards of $100 million.
Wolverine`s dog tags are the standard type issued by the Canadian military.
Rebecca Romijn and Sam Elliot have both played major and supporting roles as different characters throughout the Marvel Universe. Sam Elliot played a major role as General Ross in Hulk, and a supporting role as the Caretaker in Ghostrider. Rebecca Romijn had a major role as Mystique in all 3 X-Men movies, and played a supporting role as Joan (Frank`s neighbor) in The Punisher.
Near the end, during the Wolverine/Mystique fight scene, there is a moment where Mystique kicks Wolverine in the groin. At that moment, there is a metallic `ping` (similar to the one in the beginning when the man in the cage match punches Wolverine`s fist), which is probably an `in-joke` to Wolverine having `balls of steel` (or in this case, adamantium).
Bryan Singer cast Halle Berry as Storm after seeing her performance in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (TV).
WWE wrestler Kevin Nash was offered the role of Sabretooth, but he turned it down due to schedule conflicts.
Look for James Marsden`s platform shoes as he scales the wall at Liberty Island, after leaving the X-Jet.
James V. Hart Walker was hired to write the script in 1994, but it was never used for the film.
Tim Burton was approached by a 20th Century Fox to direct the movie but opting to direct Mars Attacks! (1996) instead.
Although he`s reasonably tall, James Marsden, who plays Cyclops, had to stand on an apple box to appear taller next to one of the boys in the train station. As a prank, Tyler Mane, who plays Sabretooth, went into Marsden`s trailer and set an apple box in his bathroom with a note - "This is so you can reach your sink."
The scene is the train station where the young boy smiles at Cyclops, and Cyclops smiles back was unplanned. The boy was a huge fan of the X-Men, and Cyclops was his favorite. The scene originally called for Cyclops to look at the train schedule, however, according to Bryan Singer, the boy could not stop smiling at James Marsden (the actor playing Cyclops). Finally, during one shot, Marsden just looked back at him and smiled, much to the boys delight. Bryan Singer liked the idea so much, he kept it in the film, and told the actress playing the boy`s mother to react the way she did.
Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker wrote a draft of the screenplay, but with a different team of X-Men (Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Iceman, Angel, and new member Wolverine) and a different team roster for the Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Toad, Sabretooth, Juggernaut, and new member Blob). Walker`s draft was never used, but some of his dialog and scenes were included in the official novel adaptation books sold in stores.
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# When Logan complains about the X-Mens` uniforms, Cyclops replies "Would you prefer yellow tights?" This is a reference to the original X-Men comic, in which Wolverine`s uniform consisted of yellow tights.
This is the first film based on a marvel comic that Stan Lee provides a cameo for.
Gary Sinise was the studios preferred option for the role of Wolverine.
Christopher Lee was considered for the part of Magneto.
Many other directors who were considered to direct the movie included Richard Donner, John McTiernan, Danny Boyle, Stephen Hopkins, Joel Schumacher and Irvin Kershner.
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Hugh Jackman
(as Logan | Wolverine)
with Famke Janssen
(as Jean Grey)
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