protect a world that fears them.

Xavier welcomes two newcomers: Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), a solitary fighting machine who possesses amazing healing powers, retractable adamantium claws and an animal-like fury; and Rogue (Anna Paquin), an alienated teenage girl who can absorb the powers and memories of anyone she touches.

As Wolverine and Rogue adjust to life among their "kind," the X-Men fmd themselves locked in a physical and philosophical battle with the Professor's former colleague and friend, Erik Lehnsherr a.k.a. Magneto (Ian McKellen). One of the world's most powerful mutants, Magneto has turned his back on society, believing that humans and mutants can never coexist, and that mutants are the rightful heirs to the future. He and his evil Brotherhood - the mammoth Sabretooth (Tyler Mane), the metamorph Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) and the nearsighted, far-jumping Toad (Ray Park) - will stop at'nöthing to ensure that future, even if it threatens the very existence of mankind ... or mutantkind.


Twentieth Century Fox presents, in association with Marvel Entertainment Group, The Donners' Company/Bad Hat Harry Production, a Bryan Singer film, X-MEN, based on characters from the best-selling comic book series in history. The film is directed by Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil) and is produced by Lauren Shuler Donner (Any Given Sunday, You 'ye Got Mail) and Ralph Winter (Mighty Joe Young, Star Trek VI. The Undiscovered Country). The screenplay is by David Hayter, from a story by Tom DeSanto & Bryan Singer. Avi Arad (Blade), comics legend Stan Lee, Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, Superman) and Tom DeSanto (Apt Pupil) are the film's executive producers. Co-producers are Joel Simon and William S. Todman, Jr.

The film's creative production team includes director of photography Newton Thomas Sigel (Three Kings, The Usual Suspects), Academy Award®-nominated production designer John Myhre (Elizabeth), visual effects supervisor Michael Fink (Braveheart, Batman Returns), editors Steven Rosenblum (Oscar nominated for Braveheart, Glory), Kevin Stitt (Lethal Weapon IV) and John Wright, A.C.E. (Speed, The Thomas Crown Affair [1999]), special makeup designer Gordon Smith (Legends of the Fall, Nixon), costume designer Louise Mingenbach (Apt Pupil, The Usual Suspects) and composer Michael Kamen (Robin Hood. Prince of Thieves, Iron Giant).