X-Men (film series)

X-Men
Film series logo used from 2014 to 2020
Based on	X-Men by Stan Lee Jack Kirby
Produced by	Bryan Singer Lauren Shuler Donner Simon Kinberg Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool films)
Production companies	Marvel Entertainment Bad Hat Harry Productions The Donners' Company TSG Entertainment Dune Entertainment Flying Glass of Milk Productions 26 Keys Productions Kinberg Genre Seed Productions Maximum Effort
Distributed by	20th Century Fox[a]
Release date	2000–2020
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	Total (13 films): $1.735 billion
Box office	Total (13 films): $6.093 billion

X-Men is an American superhero film series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. 20th Century Fox^[a] obtained the film rights to the team and other related characters in 1994 for $2.6 million. After numerous drafts, Bryan Singer was hired to direct the first film, released in 2000, and its sequel, X2 (2003), while the third installment of the original trilogy, X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), was directed by Brett Ratner.

After each film outgrossed its predecessor, further films were released set in the same shared universe, with spin-offs including three Wolverine films (2009–2017), three Deadpool films (2016–2024), and two television series titled Legion (2017–2019) and The Gifted (2017–2019). The 2011 prequel X-Men: First Class acted as a soft reboot of the original franchise, followed by its 2014 sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past establishing a new fictional timeline focusing on younger iterations of existing characters, which continued into a full tetralogy by X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Dark Phoenix (2019). The series officially concluded after 20 years with the stand-alone The New Mutants (2020).

The X-Men film series had varying reception between installments, but most received positive reviews. Days of Future Past and Logan, in particular, are considered among the greatest superhero films ever made, with each receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Adapted Screenplay respectively. Across thirteen films released, the X-Men film series is the tenth-highest-grossing film series, having grossed over $6 billion worldwide.

After Disney acquired Fox in March 2019, Marvel Studios regained the film rights to the X-Men characters, with the intention of integrating the characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As such, the majority of films in various stages in development were cancelled, and the series officially concluded as a result. However, Marvel Studios would later rework and develop one film, a third Deadpool film, as Deadpool & Wolverine (2024); though not considered part of the franchise, it served as a sequel to the Deadpool films and a retroactive conclusion for the series, while also serving as a crossover between the series, MCU, and other Marvel films produced by Fox. A new X-Men film, rebooting the franchise for the MCU, is currently in development.

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