X-Men 3

Coming soon..

X3 is A 20th Century Fox, Marvel and Donners Co Production.

Production Starts: August 2, 2005.
Release Date: May 26, 2006*

X-MEN 3 is the third chapter in the popular comic book adaption film franchise, from the popular Marvel Comics series. The next film in the saga, features the X-Men mutants fighting against not only those who fear and hate them, but a new form of evolution itself. All this happens while the dangerous threat between humans and mutants continues to grow to deadly new heights.

Prepare for the revolution!

DIRECTED BY:
BRETT RATNER

WRITTEN BY:
Zak Penn (X2), Simon Kinberg (Mr and Mrs Smith)

PRODUCERS:
Avi Arad, Alex Young, Stan Lee, David Gorder, Lauren Shuler Donner
Ralph Winter, Ross Fanger, Alex Young, Kevin

X3 VISUAL PRODUCTION TEAM:
Cinematographer: Dante Spinotti (Red Dragon).
Art Director: Geoff Hubbard (Harry Potter), Helen Jarvis (X2),
Production Designer: Ed Verreaux (Mission to Mars),
Costume Designers: Judianna Makovsky (Harry Potter Sorcerer's Stone), Lisa Tomczesyn (Spider-Man),
Art Director #2: Helen Jarvis (X2),

Visual Effects Supervisor: John Bruno (Terminator 2), Editors: Mark Helfrich (Red Dragon), Mark Goldblatt (Terminator 1/2), Julia Wong (Unfaithful), Special Effects Director: Mike Vezina (Fantastic Four),

Storyboard Artist:
Collin Grant (X2), 2nd Unit: Terry Madden (Troy), Johnathan Tayler (Spider-Man 2),Simon Crane (Mr Mrs Smith),

Casting Directors:
Coreen Mayrs, Richard Pagano, Heike Brandstatter.

Oscar winner, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Tony Awards nominee. Widely considered one of the leading British actors of his generation, Ian McKellen has had a rich and varied career encompassing the stage, screen, and television. A renowned stage actor in his native Britain for decades, McKellen was not familiar to most American audiences until the '90s, when he began popping up in a number of well-received films: God & Monsters, Six Degrees of Seperation, Apt Pupil, Lord of the Rings, and X-Men, among others.


Actor: Hugh Jackman (The Fountain, Van Helsing)

Name: Logan aka Wolverine

Bio: Logan joined the X-MEN team after being saved by X-Men team members, Storm and Cyclops. He is known for his hostile attitude, and is unpredictable. Logan's past was unknowst to him, but he is slowly regaining knowledge of his orgins.

Logan is a result of WEAPON X. A project which gave him an adamantium-laced skeleton, and claws which unsheath from his forearm, through his knuckles. In addition to his indestructable skeleton, Logan's natural gifts are to heal any brutal wounds, making his true age unknown.








Actor: Halle Berry (Gothika, Monster's Ball)

Name: Ororo Munroe aka Storm

Bio: Ororo Munroe was born in New York city, and moved to Cairo, Egypt with her parents, David and N'Dare Munroe. Five years later, their home was bombed. Little Ororo was trapped under with her dead parents. To this day she (at times) suffers from claustrophobia.

Professor Xavier met Ororo as a child, and invited her to attend the Xavier school. She was one of his earliest students, and now teaches history at the school, and co-leads the X-Men team.

Storm has the ability to control the weather elements with her mind, and take flight.





Actor: Kelsey Grammer (TV's Fraiser)

Name: Henry McCoy Ph.D aka Beast

Bio: Henry McCoy was one of Professor Xavier's first students. His parents had rejected him because of his mutant uniqueness. After spending some time learning under Xavier, he decided he wanted to further his education further, and went on to receive his doctorate in biophysics.

He is now a genetics research scientist, and one of few mutant voices who have spoken out about the mutant phenomenon to the government. Hank frequently visits the White House to disucss the ongoings of Human/ Mutant war.

Beast later in life developed blue skin and fur, and has the abilities of amazing strength, endurance, and great agility and speed. Hank still stuggles with his physical self, but continues to carry on a light-hearted attitude.


Actress: Famke Janssen (Hide & Seek)

Name: Jean Grey aka Phoenix
Bio: Jean Grey was one of Professor Xavier's first students. She joined his group when she was just a little girl. When her telekinetic and telepathic mutant gifts first manifested, her parents became extremely fearful. Jean was having headaches and made all the cars and mailboxes in her neighborhood shake and fly into the air! Professor X promised Jean's parents that he would help her through control her mutant gifts, and he did.

Jean was the resident doctor at the school for gifted mutants, and was engaged to Scott Summers (Cyclops) She recently lost her life after saving the X-Men team from near death. But like her most favorite myth of the Phoenix, she shall rise again.




Actor: James Marsden (Superman Returns)

Name: Scott Summers aka Cyclops

Bio: One of the first mutants to join Xavier's X-MEN team, Scott Summers is the leader of the mutants who fight for a world that fears and hates them.

Cyclops powers manifested when he and a friend were at a school function. He noticed his eyes were in pain, and went to the restroom in the school gym. His power of optic blasts, which shoot directly from his eyes, blasted a hole directly through the bathroom.

Cyclops was engaged to former team mate, Jean Grey. He is currently single.

Actress: Anna Paquin (Margaret)

Name: Marie aka Rogue
Bio: Marie had a normal life. She attended high school, and had one of the most popular guys as her boyfriend. But it was one fateful day that changed everything. While kissing her boyfriend for the first time, she manifested her mutant gifts of absorbing the life force of any human / mutant. Shortly after she went rogue and enrolled in the school for the gifted.

After only a few months, she gained the priviledge of being a full-fledged X-Man, and is currently dating fellow member Bobby aka Iceman, though they have been having issues due to her mutant power of not being able to touch anyone skin-to-skin without harming them.


Actress: Rebecca Romijn (Godsend)

Name: Raven Darkholme aka Mystique
Bio: Raven Darkholme despises homo-sapiens. When she was a younger, she was taunted and threatened by school kids for her special gifts; that of a meta-morph. "It's people like you who made me afraid to go to school as a child." she once said.

Later in life, Raven met Erik Lensherr (Magneto). She agreed with his thoughts on homo sapien, and joined his following. She is now his trusted companion.

Mystique's gifts allow her to take on the shape and form of any person she wishes. This gift makes her true age unknown.


Actor: Ben Foster (Punisher, Six Feet Under)

Name: Warren Worthington III aka Angel

Bio: Warren Worthington III was born in New York, and later moved to San Fransisco with his father (of the same name). His father has never been comftorable with Warren's mutation. Warren used to hate his feathered wings as a kid, but as the years had gone past, he began to appreciate them... when he finally learned he could take flight like any other bird.

Warren struggles with his own thoughts, and his fathers thoughts. His father wants nothing more than to eliminate his son's mutant gene, and at times twists his mind to believe that he's right. Still, Warren is a grown man and in the end makes his own decisions. He later meets with the X-Men, and joins in the fight against the mutant cure.

His primary power is of flight. His wings have superhuman strength, and allow him to carry not only himself, but anything twice his weight. His bones are hollow, like any other bird. He processes food better than any normal human, and does not store any fat in his body. Note: his amazing muscle mass.