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- X-Men: First Class. Release date: June 3, 2011. Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence. We’re already kicking off our list with a disclaimer about the number one spot.
- X-Men: Days of Future Past. Release Date: May 23, 2014. Cast: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender. Another contentious piece of chronology here, as Days of Future Past takes place in both 1973, and “The Future” simultaneously.
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Release Date: May 1, 2009. Cast: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston. In a blink and you miss it cameo in First Class, you’ll spot Wolverine in a bar, telling Prof X and Magneto to “go f**k themselves”.
- X-Men: Apocalypse. Release Date: May 27, 2016. Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender,Oscar Isaac. In Oscar Isaacs first of two different Egyptian Marvel characters, X-Men: Apocalypse sees the updated X-Men team fight off against the titular villain, Apocalypse.
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last updated 21 November 2023
We explain how to watch the X-Men movies in order by chronology and release date
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Apr 29, 2022 · So here it is in timeline order: X-Men: First Class. X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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- X-Men First Class. This prequel is the earliest-set X-Men movie in the universe, with most of the action taking place in the year 1962 as a young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) teams up with a young Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender) to track down a former Nazi mutant scientist (Kevin Bacon).
- X-Men: Days of Future Past. This is a tricky one. So technically most of the action of X-Men: Days of Future Past takes place in the year 1973, but it’s also a future-set movie that simultaneously takes place in the year 2023.
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The first-ever X-Men spinoff movie was the much-maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which ostensibly tells the origin story of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine character.
- X-Men: Apocalypse. So this “prequel” most closely follows the events of X-Men: First Class and the 1970s setuff in Days of Future Past, as X-Men: Apocalypse is set in the year 1983 and finds the young adult versions of the X-Men battling the world-ending (and centuries-old) villain Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac).
- X-Men (2000) So, let's start with the beginning. It seems like a completely insane thing to think about now, but in the year 2000, nobody in Hollywood had any idea if superhero movies could still be a thing.
- X2: X-Men United (2003) If X-Men made us believe in the possibility of mutants in movies, a mind-controlled Nightcrawler attacking the White House at the onset of X2 ensured they stuck around for a while.
- X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) If you set out to tackle the original cinematic X-Men, watching the first three in chronological order should give you a sense for the wildly inconsistent quality that eventually defines the entire series.
- X-Men: First Class (2011) So in a series with just as many misfires as genuinely stellar entries, should quality influence your watching order? We would suggest that, if you care to maximize your mutant-related enjoyment, it probably doesn't hurt to disregard chronology in the interest of keeping morale high.
X-Men Movies in Order of Release. X-Men: July 14, 2000; X2: May 2, 2003; X-Men: The Last Stand: May 26, 2006; X-Men Origins: Wolverine: May 1, 2009; X-Men: First Class: June 3, 2011; The...
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Feb 7, 2021 · X-Men: First Class. Image used with permission by copyright holder. While it was released over a decade after the first X-Men film, 2011’s X-Men: First Class is the best starting place...
