The film is based on the fictional X-Men characters that appear in Marvel Comics. It is the sixth mainline installment in the X-Men film series and the ninth installment overall. The film was announced by Singer in December , with Kinberg, Dougherty, and Harris attached to develop the story. Casting began in October , while principal photography commenced in April in Montreal and ended in August of the same year. The film received mixed reviews from critics.
A sequel, titled Dark Phoenix , was released on June 7, Following a ceremony in which his consciousness is transferred into another man's body in order to gain his healing factor, he and his four followers, the Horsemen of Apocalypse , are betrayed by conspirators.
In the process, his followers are killed and he is entombed alive. In , Scott Summers manifests his mutant powers to shoot concussive kinetic energy blasts from his eyes, so his older brother Alex takes him to Professor Charles Xavier 's educational institute , hoping that Xavier and Hank McCoy will teach him to control his mutation. Scott meets and befriends Jean Grey upon arriving. He meets a mutant who can control weather, Ororo Munroe , and learns about humanity.
Determined that humanity has lost its way, he plans to remake the world. Ororo becomes his follower after he enhances her power. During the worldwide disturbances caused by En Sabah Nur, Lehnsherr uses his powers to save a coworker during an earthquake, alerting the Milicja Obywatelska.
They hold his daughter hostage in the forest to lure him into turning himself in. As tensions rise, Nina heartbrokenly demonstrates her animal communication mutant powers, and the police accidentally kill her and her mother in the ensuing confusion. In despair, Lehnsherr kills the police. In East Berlin , shape-shifting mutant Raven , revered as a mutant hero following the attack on Washington, D.
