Universal-International originally planned to film in Technicolor.
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Bryan Singer was hired based on his work on The Usual Suspects (1995). Singer turned the job down twice. Then he read the X-Men comics, and changed his mind.
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This was Bryan Singer's first science fiction movie, so to gain a better understanding of practical and digital visual effects, he visited the production sets of Titanic (1997) and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
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The mansion used as the Xavier School served as the Madison Mansion in Billy Madison (1995), the Luthor Mansion in Smallville (2001), and the Queen Mansion in Arrow (2012).
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The final scene, in which which Professor Xavier plays a game of Chess with Magneto, Magneto asks Professor Xavier about people coming for his children in the middle of the night. This foreshadows X2: X-Men United (2003), in which Professor Xavier is abducted by Major William Stryker, and Stryker's military force raids Xavier's school in the middle of the night, and several children are captured.
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The bar scenes were shot in the same brewery as the concentration camp scenes.
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Stan Lee: (At around forty-four minutes) X-Men creator and executive producer is a man near a hot dog stand on the beach when Senator Kelly comes out of the water.
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In the comic books and on X-Men (1992), Rogue had red and white hair. In this movie, she has brown hair, but later has brown and white hair.
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To prepare for the movie, Bryan Singer visited the sets of Titanic (1997) and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). He asked James Cameron and George Lucas for advice on making effects-heavy movies.
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To get the charge in his hair, Tyler Mane was attached to a five-million volt electrostatic generator.
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According to Bryan Singer, Sir Ian McKellen was great at flying in the harness, especially landing, which is hard to do.
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Executive Producer Tom DeSanto compared Wolverine to Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood. "He's such an emotionally torn character, and he's such a reluctant hero."
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The Danger Room, a training facility at Xavier's Mansion, was going to be in this movie. However, the filmmakers, after a lot of debate, cut it out of the script to make the movie move faster. The Danger Room was slated to appear in X2: X-Men United (2003), but again was cut out, due to budget restrictions. It appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016).
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This is the only movie in the franchise in which the actress playing Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos or Jennifer Lawrence) never appears sans make-up as one of her own disguises. In all subsequent movies, Romijn and Lawrence have made a "disguise" appearance, with both appearing as disguises of the same form of Mystique in X-Men: First Class (2011).
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Hugh Jackman's physique looks slightly different in different scenes, because he was cast three weeks after principal photography had started, and kept working out extensively while shooting continued.
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Bryan Singer's first choice to play Wolverine was Russell Crowe, but Crowe turned it down, because he didn't want to play another role similar to Maximus from Gladiator (2000). Crowe felt the characters were too similar, by having the same animal totem, the wolf, and thought the movie was a cartoon, which isn't his cup of tea. He would later go on to play Superman's father Jor-El in Man of Steel (2013).
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To celebrate her last day on-set, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos brought in a bottle of tequila, which she gave to her fellow cast and crew during a break in filming. Unfortunately, that day she happened to be filming the Wolverine and Mystique fight scene, and she threw up blue-colored vomit (from the chemicals in her make-up) all over Hugh Jackman.
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Edward Burns was considered for the part of Cyclops. D.B. Sweeney auditioned for the role (he has a cameo in this movie as a Statue of Liberty guard). Thomas Jane turned down the role (Jane went on to play The Punisher (2004) alongside Rebecca Romijn-Stamos). Eric Mabius and Vince Vaughn were interested in the role. Jim Caviezel was cast as Cyclops, but he had to drop out, due to schedule conflicts with Frequency (2000).
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Many of the X-Men from the comics who don't have major roles in this movie appear as minor characters in the school. Among them are Jubilee (the Asian-American girl wearing a yellow jacket, hoop earrings with sunglasses above her forehead); Shadowcat, also known as Kitty Pryde; Colossus; Iceman, a.k.a. Bobby Drake; and Pyro. Kitty, Iceman, and Pyro have major roles in the sequels, although Kitty and Pyro both change actor.
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Hugh Jackman said that if he could have any of the mutants' abilities, he would choose Mystique's.
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