Recommended music: X-Men Main Theme [Note, this track goes with the X-Men animated series, as Michael Kamen’s film score wasn’t available to cross-post on Instagram – DM]
On this #SomethingElseSunday, we’re celebrating 25 years of X-Men on the big screen!
Yes, the Blade film, a couple of years earlier, technically took a Marvel comic book character and turned him into a box office success with that R-rated vampire flick. Still, X-Men really led the way for the modern superhero comic book film franchise.
The idea for a live-action X-Men film goes all the way back to Orion Pictures in the early 1980s. However, the film was in development hell for a decade, so the movie rights moved to Fox. Fox had seen success with its animated X-Men television series aimed at kids and sought to find the right director, writers, actors, and vision to make the franchise a success with adult audiences.
With a budget of around $100 million and a gross of around $300 million worldwide, the new century was sure to have a comic book film always present for summertime filmgoers for years to come. There have now been 11 X-Men films released in the past two dozen years, as well as crossovers with the three Deadpool films, and future films celebrating these characters and even the original cast with next year’s Avengers: Doomsday.
I thought rather than focus on a single scene from the original film, I’d add in my existing X-Men movie action figures to the original theatrical poster. Since I don’t actually have figures for all 10 characters featured here, you’ll have to read into the film tagline of “trust a few, fear the rest” as a few actor’s faces were not replaced with toys.😄 Hopefully, Hasbro will continue to put out more figures from this film, as many of the characters have not been covered since the original ToyBiz line and are in need of an update.
Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of X-Men hitting theaters in the US!
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