Young Men

X-Men is an American superhero film series based on the X-Men, a group of characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for comic books published by Marvel Comics. Encompassing thirteen live-action films, it was produced by 20th Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment from 2000 to 2020. In the 1980s, Marvel embarked on efforts to adapt the X-Men stories to film. After prolonged development, Fox purchased rights in 1993 and developed a trilogy comprising X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). A succession of films followed, expanding the fictional universe. Plans for a reboot led to the production of four prequel films chronicling the adventures of the X-Men as young people, from X-Men: First Class (2011) to Dark Phoenix (2019). From 2009 to 2020, Fox oversaw the creation of another six films as X-Men spinoffs, which feature Wolverine, Deadpool, and the New Mutants. The studio's television networks division produced Legion and The Gifted (both 2017–2019) tangential to the films. Fox controlled the production of X-Men films until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2019, effectively terminating all planned adaptations from the studio. Critical opinion about X-Men films differ significantly. Most average moderately positive scores on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, though there is a wide disparity between the best-reviewed entries, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and Logan (2017), and the worst, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Dark Phoenix, and The New Mutants (2020). At the box office, the films are generally successful and constitute one of the highest-grossing film franchises of all time, grossing over $6 billion worldwide.