Fan CastingX-Men 2: United 2003

X-Men 2: United is a 2003 American superhero film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and David Hayter, from a story by Singer, Hayter and Zak Penn. The film is based on the X-Men superhero team appearing in Marvel Comics. It is the sequel to X-Men (2000), as well as the second installment in the X-Men film series, and features an ensemble cast including Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Ryan Reynolds, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Danny Huston, Alan Cumming, Bruce Davison, Shawn Ashmore, Liev Schreiber, Lynn Collins, Kevin Durand, Aaron Stanford, Kelly Hu, Taylor Kitsch and Anna Paquin. Its plot, inspired by the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills, concerns the genocidal Colonel William Stryker leading an assault on Professor Xavier's school to build his own version of Xavier's mutant-tracking computer Cerebro, in order to destroy every mutant on Earth and to save the human race from them, forcing the X-Men to team up with the Brotherhood of Mutants, their former enemies, and the mercenary Deadpool to stop Stryker and save the mutant race. X2 was released in the United States on May 2, 2003 by 20th Century Fox, and received positive reviews for its storyline, action sequences, and performances (particularly Paquin, Kitsch, Reynolds and Jackman) and Thor's introduction.