Now imagine the concern it must have sprouted back in 1999 when comic book material was still looked down upon in Tinsel Town and the creative team was locked into a rigid budget. That’s a dreaded proposition in today’s superhero-friendly ecosystem of $200 million blockbusters. But what you may not know about the climax of X-Men, the film that helped spark Hollywood’s modern comic book boom, is that it needed to be entirely reshot before it was ready for primetime. X-Men, which arrived in theaters 20 years ago today, perched its final battle at the peak of the American monument to immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity-by way of 20th Century Fox’s Toronto soundstages. Naturally, this is the perfect location for a storybook Hollywood ending. The famed torch has been known to move as much as six inches when nature really howls. Disney/FoxĪt the top of the Statue of Liberty, gusts of wind can whip so ferociously that the entire structure actually sways. Observer talked to several people involved in its production to find out why. The 2000 film X-Men was the forerunner not just to 20 years of superhero movies but to an entire Hollywood model of tentpole business.
