X-Men: The Last Stand - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of X-Men: The Last Stand or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to X-Men: The Last Stand

[carla]

In the prequel X-Men: First Class (2011) Young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) erases young Moira MacTaggert's memory. In the after credits scene of this movie, Moira (Olivia Williams) hears Charles's (Patrick Stewart) voice and realizes it is Charles speaking to her. This is considered to be bad writing in the prequel. Moira would had no memory or knowledge of Charles Xavier and wouldn't recognize his voice.

[jessica]

Anna Paquin and producer Lauren Shuler Donner were amongst the participants in this movie who were not happy about the idea of Rogue taking the mutant "cure".

[sara]

Philippe Rousselot was hired as cinematographer by director Matthew Vaughn, and initially stayed on when Brett Ratner took over. Not long into shooting, however, Rousselot quit the project (later saying that signing on to shoot the movie was the biggest blunder he'd ever made in his career). Dante Spinotti, the cinematographer of three of Ratner's previous movies, was available, and he took over for most of the remaining filming. The last week of filming was done by camera operator James M. Muro, as Spinotti had to leave to begin work on The Contract (2006).

[sandra]

In this movie, Bolivar Trask is Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. In the comics, he was a scientist and Agent responsible for creating the Sentinel robots. Against continuity, his character appeared again, this time played by Peter Dinklage, in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), which takes place in the 1970s.

[cassandra]

There was an unfilmed Danger Room sequence, where Bobby and Kitty are training, and are then supposedly blasted to pieces by Sentinels, only to sit up as (projected) skeletons as the team looks on.

[jessica]

In a June 2009 interview, Bryan Singer admitted that he regretted declining to direct this movie in favor of Superman Returns (2006), confessing that he realized his mistake "before I was watching (the third X-Men movie), during watching it, after watching it."

[jessica]

"The Fast and the Furious" and "X-Men" film franchises have often released the same installments of a franchise in the same year. X2: X-Men United (2003) and 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) were released in 2003, this movie and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) were released in 2006, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and Fast & Furious (2009) were released in 2009, X-Men: First Class (2011) and Fast Five (2011) were released in 2011, and The Wolverine (2013) and Fast & Furious 6 (2013) were released in 2013. Furious 7 (2015) was set to be released in 2014, the same year as X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), however, it then was pushed to 2015 after Paul Walker's death.

[tom]

For the opening flashback, visual effects experts created a special program that enabled "digital skin-grafting": with the use of old photos of Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen, complex keyframing (dissolving an image into another image, for example, older actors into younger-looking versions) was applied to the scene to make them appear twenty years younger.

[addison]

Twentieth Century Fox hired Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn to write competing drafts of the screenplay, a fairly common practice for summer blockbusters. Penn had suffered through similar situations before on the first two X-Men movies, so suggested to Kinberg that they should actually work together.

[victoria]

The last scene was to have Magneto regaining his abilities as he plays chess with a stranger (whom he discovers is Professor Xavier in another man's body). Neither were available for filming their scene together, so instead, two separate scenes for the two were filmed, bookending the credits.

[nicholas]

The automobile Professor Xavier and Erik Lensherr use in the beginning is a Mercedes-Benz 600.

[ruby]

To create the Golden Gate Bridge sequence, the art department built a full-scale section of the bridge that was about the size of a basketball court (94 feet). The rest of the bridge and the background was digital.

[mathew]

Brett Ratner invited composer John Powell to score the music for this movie, being a fan of Powell's work on The Bourne Identity (2002).

[ray]

Moira MacTaggert plays a doctor in this movie, instead of the C.I.A. Agent seen in X-Men: First Class (2011) and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), where she is also Professor X's love interest. In a post credits scene for this movie, Dr. MacTaggert is taking care of a patient with no conscious brain activity, although the rest of the body is intact. The DVD commentary explains this brain-dead man is P. Xavier, Charles Xavier's twin brother, who was overpowered by Charles' psychic abilities while they were in their mothers womb and rendered brain-dead. His body and mind was suddenly occupied by the Professor after Jean killed him, and he can be heard saying "Hello Moira" in Charles' voice, with a stunned Moira recognising his voice. Earlier in the film Charles used P. Xavier as part of his lesson, discussing the ethics of a psychic mutant transferring his or her consciousness into another persons body. It is heavily implied he did just that here.

[jesse]

Many of the actors and actresses performed their own stunts.

[duane]

The number on Jean's mailbox is 1769.

[eli]

After Matthew Vaughan left production on the film, he was going to direct Thor but also left. Vaughn went on to direct the superhero films Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class.

[sara]

Famke Janssen's Jean Grey has barely any dialogue in the last half hour of the film.

[linda]

The X-Men fighting a giant robot in the ruins of a city in the training simulation "foreshadows" Bolivar Trask, the Sentinels, and the post-apocalyptic future of 2023 in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).