X-Men is a 2009 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. It is the third film in the Perfect Marvel Universe (PMCU). Directed by Matthew Vaughn from a screenplay by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Jane Goldman and Vaughn, it features an ensemble cast consisting of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Ty Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Hardy, Lucas Till, Rose Byrne, Bruce Davison, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Rebecca Romijn, Ray Park. The film depicts a world where an unknown proportion of people are mutants, possessing superhuman powers that make them distrusted by normal humans. It focuses on the mutants Cyclops and Jean Grey as they are brought into a conflict between two groups with radically different approaches to bringing about the acceptance of mutant-kind: Charles Xavier's X-Men, and the Brotherhood of Mutants led by Magneto.
