Welcome to The Road toX-Men: Apocalypse, a Collider Heroes Special hosted by Jon Schnepp; with our special panel featuring Amy Dallen and Robert Meyer Burnett!
X-Men: Apocalypseopens on May 27th so we thought we’d go through the feature films that have brought us up to this point. Let’s get into the Way Back Machine and exit in the year 2000. July 14th brought us the very first film simply titledX-men.
X2: X-MenUnitedcame out in August 27, 2025 and this time we had a bigger world to play in, after the success of the first film.Bryan Singerreturned with a sure hand in directing this second film, expanding the storylines of Wolverine and his brutal origin at the hands of Stryker.
June 16, 2025 saw the release ofX-Men: The Last Standbut this time, Bryan Singer took off directSuperman Returns.The Last Standrecruited directorBrett Ratner, shooting from a script bySimon KinbergandZak Penn. This third installment had a cure for the Mutant Gene as the central story, with a division and battle once more between Professor X and Magneto as they fight to stop the cure from wiping them out.
May 1st, 2009 saw the release ofX-Men Origins: Wolverine, the first solo film forHugh Jackman, featuring the century spanning life of Logan and his brother Sabretooth a.k.a. Victor Creed played byLiev Schriber. We see Logan working with Team X (with Wade Wilson) in his early career with Stryker. He then leaves return to his old life until Victor shows up to ruin it all. We then got lots of strange inconsistent scenes with Gambit, Blob, and a Deadpool with his mouth sewn shut. WTF?
May 25th, 2011 was the release date for the re-imagining, somewhat, ofX-Men: First Class. This reboot/prequel to the first threeX-Menfilms really helped re-establish theX-Menbrand, by throwing them back into the sixties, and recasting the main duo of Professor X and Magneto withJames McAvoyandMichael Fassbender, with Mystique played byJennifer Lawrence.
The Wolverine came out on July 26th, 2013, and followed Logan to Japan as he tries to escape from his tormented nightmares involving the ghost of Jean Grey. Wolverine accepts the offer from a man he saved during WW2, which can now give Logan what he desires: death by the destruction of his healing gene. Things don’t go as planed and ends up with Wolverinenotfighting a group of Ninjas, and eventually battling the Silver Samurai.
X-Men: Days of Future Pastopened May 23rd, 2014 and was a return to greatness, with Bryan Singer making an epic that combined his original cast with the newFirst Classcast. The main cast travels back and forth from the horrible future to the 1970s in an effort to save all of mutant-kind. This movie had it all, both sets of X-Men, time travel and the ability to fix giant mistakes that happened in the previous movies, as well as getting the Sentinels properly in the X-universe.
That does it for an amazing look at all the X-Men movies leading up to the newest X-adventure:X-Men: Apocalypse. The movie will be released in theatres on May 27th. Stay sweaty!
