Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen go to war over a mutant cure in X-Men: The Last Stand
It's finally here. Moviegoers last saw the X-Men in action in 2003, when Bryan Singer scored for a second time with his mutant sequel, X2. Now, after a three-year hiatus, pretty much everyone's back for the latest adventure, X-Men: The Last Stand, with the most notable exception being Singer, who opted to direct Superman Returns instead. And so Brett Ratner is at the helm of The Last Stand, in which humans and mutant-kind alike deal with a shocking development: The government has created a "cure" for mutants, a drug that suppresses the mutant gene.
[показать] Even as everyone debates the pros and cons of the so-called "cure," Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen) find themselves at odds on yet another matter: how to deal with Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), who's been resurrected and is fast evolving into the dangerously powerful Dark Phoenix. Newcomers to the film series include Ben Foster, who plays Angel, and Kelsey Grammer, who appears as Hank McCoy/Beast.
Twentieth Century Fox will release The Last Stand on May 26, and Science Fiction Weekly was on hand at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City when most of the cast, including, Stewart, Foster, Halle Berry (Storm), Grammer and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) sat down to meet the press. Ian McKellen checked in by telephone.
Halle Berry, you were very vocal about wanting Storm to be more developed in this story. How involved were you in actually making that happen?
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Berry: Involved in the sense that I talked a lot with Brett. When Brett came onboard, he felt the same way that I did about the character, and he was very open to me, talking [with me] about what her point of view is and what it should be and how she felt about this or that and how involved should Storm really be. I had big issues with her being the teacher and doing more than just flying the plane. There had to be a woman under there that had a point of view, that had passion about something, that was angry about something, that was happy about something. She can't just be this sort of mechanical sort of character that she has been in the past. So Brett was open to letting me be a part of that.
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