The first X-Men film, X-Men, was released in cinemas in 2000.
Directed by Bryan Singer, the film brought Marvel’s mutant superheroes into a major live-action ensemble movie. Its story follows Professor Charles Xavier’s X-Men as they confront Magneto and debate how mutants should live alongside humans.
X-Men was released in the United States on July 14, 2000. Hugh Jackman played Wolverine, Patrick Stewart played Professor X, Ian McKellen played Magneto, and Halle Berry played Storm. The film’s success helped establish superhero movies as a major Hollywood genre in the early 2000s.
The film is sometimes confused with X2, its 2003 sequel, or with X-Men: First Class, the 2011 prequel set in an earlier period. X-Men was the first theatrical film in the main X-Men movie series, although animated and television adaptations had appeared earlier.