![]() However, the life forms in the camp are all decoy copies of Multiple Man. ![]() After interrogating a depowered Mystique, the FBI discover Magneto's base in the woods. She destroys the house and kills Xavier by disintegrating him, before leaving with Magneto. Magneto and Xavier go in, and both vie for Jean's loyalty until the Phoenix resurfaces. Magneto learns of Jean's resurrection through Callisto, and the X-Men arrive at the Grey home at the same time as the Brotherhood. The Phoenix emerges, knocks out Logan, and escapes to her childhood home. Logan is disgusted to learn of this psychic tampering with Jean's mind but, once she awakens, he discovers that she killed Summers and is not the Jean Grey he once knew. When Logan and Storm return to the X-Mansion, Xavier explains to Logan that when Jean sacrificed herself to save them, she also freed the " Phoenix", a dark and extremely powerful alternate personality which Xavier had telepathically repressed, aware of the Phoenix's godlike destructive potential. When they arrive, they find only telekinetically floating rocks, Summers' glasses, and an unconscious Jean. Sensing trouble, Xavier sends Logan and Storm to investigate. Jean appears to Summers but, as the two kiss, Jean kills him. Meanwhile, Scott Summers, still distraught over the loss of his fiancée Jean Grey, drives to her resting location at Alkali Lake. Mystique, shielding Magneto from a cure dart, is hit by it and loses her mutant abilities. ![]() They attack the mobile prison holding Mystique to free her, also freeing Multiple Man and Juggernaut. With help from Pyro, Magneto recruits Callisto and several other mutants. Magneto re-establishes his Brotherhood of Mutants with those who oppose the cure, warning his followers that the cure will be forcibly used to exterminate the mutant race. While some mutants are interested in the cure, including Rogue, many others are horrified by the announcement. The cure is created from the genome of a young mutant named Jimmy, who lives at the Worthington facility on Alcatraz Island. In the present, Worthington Labs announces it has developed an inoculation to suppress the X-gene that gives mutants their abilities and offer the "cure" to any mutant who wants it. Ten years later in 1996, the industrialist Warren Worthington II discovers his son is a mutant as he tries to cut off his wings. In 1986, Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr meet young Jean Grey at her parents' house to invite her to join their school, the X-Mansion. Unlike its predecessors, the film received mixed reviews from critics, but it grossed approximately $459 million worldwide, becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2006 it was at the time the highest-grossing film in the series and is currently the fourth-highest-grossing film of the franchise. X-Men: The Last Stand premiered in the Out of Competition section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on May 26 by 20th Century Fox. It had extensive visual effects created by 11 different companies. ![]() Filming took place from August 2005 to January 2006 with a budget of $210 million, and was consequently the most expensive film made at the time of its release. Matthew Vaughn, who was initially hired as the new director, left due to personal and professional issues, and was replaced with Ratner. Singer had not even defined the storyline for a third film. X2 composer and editor John Ottman and X2 writers Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty also left to work on Superman Returns, as did James Marsden, who had very limited screen time in The Last Stand before his character was killed off due to his departure from the film. Written by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, the film is loosely based on two X-Men comic book story arcs, " Gifted" and " The Dark Phoenix Saga", with a plot that revolves around a "mutant cure" that causes serious repercussions among mutants and humans, and on the resurrection of Jean Grey who unleashes a dark force.īryan Singer, who had directed the two previous films, X-Men (2000) and X2, decided to leave the sequel to work on Superman Returns (2006). It features an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Patrick Stewart. It is the sequel to X2 (2003), as well as the third installment in the X-Men film series, and was directed by Brett Ratner. X-Men: The Last Stand (also marketed as X3: The Last Stand, or X-Men 3) is a 2006 superhero film based on the X-Men comic books published by Marvel Entertainment Group.
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