In the film X-Men, a UN summit held on the island is targeted by Magneto, a former immigrant who attempts to artificially mutate all the delegates present.

Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

Additionally his film work includes the role of Dr. Hank McCoy ( also known as the Beast ) in X-Men: The Last Stand, and he was the voice of Snowball in the live-action film adaptation of the George Orwell book Animal Farm.

* X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a 2009 action film, prequel to the X-Men film trilogy.

Additionally, a simulated version made a brief appearance in the beginning of the 2006 film, X-Men: The Last Stand.

* Sentinels appeared in an early draft of the first X-Men film, wherein Henry Peter Gyrich and Bolivar Trask attacked the X-Men with the Sentinels, but this treatment didn't make it past the concept stage.

Sentinels were planned for inclusion in the second X-Men film, X2, but they did not appear onscreen ( although Project Wideawake is mentioned on a computer readout screen ).

Another notable reference is in the third X-Men film, when asked by Callisto: " If you're so proud of being a mutant, then where's your mark?

Perhaps the most explicit reference to the Holocaust in the film series would be in the prequel film X-Men: First Class, in which a fourteen year old Magneto suffers Nazi human experimentation during his time in the camps and witnesses his mother's death by gunshot.

In the 2000 X-Men film, Kelly exclaims, " We must know who these mutants are and what they can do ," even brandishing a " list " of known mutants ( a reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy's list of Communist Party USA members who were working in the government ).

* In the second film, X2: X-Men United, Jean Grey's powers have been evolving since the Liberty Island incident in the first movie.

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In February 2008, 20th Century Fox announced Schreiber would play the mutant supervillain, Sabretooth in the Marvel Comics film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released on May 1, 2009.

* Bryan Singer ( born 1965 ), film director, for such films as Public Access, Apt Pupil, X-Men, X2, Superman Returns and Valkyrie.

Alongside Angel, he was also working on a series of other projects such as Buffy, Fray, Astonishing X-Men and Firefly, which would later also lead to the film Serenity.

In the 2003 film X2: X-Men United, The Edifice scene from Why Man Creates is playing in the background on computer monitors near the beginning of the film when several of the X-Men are gathered in a museum.

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

Their stories include the classic " Mimsy Were the Borogoves " ( the basis for the film The Last Mimzy ) and " Vintage Season ".

Gladiator ( 2000 ) is an epic, dramatic film, along with The Last Samurai ( 2003 ).

Two years later he played Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ.

The film, Last Paradise, was launched in 2012 as an " original footage " history of extreme sports culture and adventure travel over 45 years, including the origins of extreme surfing, skiing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, windsurfing, hang gliding and kiteboarding, to the first commercialization of bungee jumping by A. J. Hackett, and his famed jump from the Eiffel Tower.

* Last Paradise, a film about the origin of extreme sports over 45 years in original footage

Several clips from the film are comically used during the theater scene in The Last Dragon.

German film director F. W. Murnau had recently made The Last Laugh and Sunrise and was the most critically acclaimed director in Hollywood, and Hawks's attempted to imitate Murnau's style with this film.

Trent's Last Case is an adaptation of British author E. C. Bentley's 1913 novel of the same name, and had already been adapted to film in England in 1920.

* Hitler: The Last Ten Days, a 1973 film

Along with I Know What You Did Last Summer ( written by Kevin Williamson as well ) and Urban Legend, they re-ignited the dormant slasher film genre.

Films such as Audition ( 1999 ), Wrong Turn ( 2003 ), and the Australian film Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), took their cues from The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), and The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ).

* A character ( Drysdale ) in the Morse TV film based on Colin Dexter's novel, " The Last Enemy ," quotes the first few lines of the poem to which Morse adds a few more lines ( not wholly accurately ).

Retitled Remember Last Night ?, the film was one of Whale's personal favorites, but met with sharply divided reviews and commercial disinterest.

Compassion !, Dunston Checks In, Love and Action in Chicago, The Last Supper and psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder.

After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum came clean about who wrote The Last Egyptian and made a film of it ( portions of which are included in Decasia ), but the Oz name had, for the time being, become box office poison and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help.

The movie, which became the most commercially successful film of all time when it was released — along with his Oscar-nominated performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), another smash hit — revitalized Brando's career and reestablished him in the ranks of top box office stars, placing him at number 6 and number 10 in Top 10 Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

The actor followed with Bernardo Bertolucci's 1973 film Last Tango in Paris, but the performance was overshadowed by an uproar over the sexual content of the film.

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

Also in 2007, the film The Last Legion portrayed Merlin ( initially called Ambrosinus ) as a druid and tutor of both the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus Caesar, as well as of his son Arthur.

A film called Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society, was created after the anime series and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, premiering on the SKY Perfect satellite television network on September 1, 2006.

Lennon's first-ever tour in the spring of 1985 was documented as part of the film Stand By Me: A Portrait Of Julian Lennon — a film profile started by Sam Peckinpah, but completed by Martin Lewis after Peckinpah's death.

The film, Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story, from Visual Communications, documents his life story, particularly his stand against the incarceration.

The Body is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in King's 1982 collection Different Seasons and in 1986 adapted into the acclaimed film Stand by Me.

In " The Blunder Years " ( 2001 ), a parody of the film Stand by Me, a teenaged Moe is depicted as a friend of Homer, Lenny and Carl.

As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie Lachance in the film Stand by Me, Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers and his recurring role playing himself on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

He first gained widespread attention in 1986 as Gordie Lachance in Stand by Me, the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Body.

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Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film, based on the true story of high school math teacher, Jaime Escalante.

It is the setting for the fictional Castle Rock, Oregon in the film Stand by Me.

Phoenix's work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, including the science fiction adventure film Explorers, the coming-of-age film Stand By Me, the action sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the independent adult drama My Own Private Idaho.

He appeared in diverse roles, making his first notable appearance in the 1986 film Stand by Me, a hugely popular coming-of-age film based on a novella by Stephen King.

He also played a colonel, alongside Robin Askwith, Nigel Davenport and George Layton, in Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers, which was the sequel to the 1969 film The Virgin Soldiers.

It was Wenders who granted Jarmusch the leftover film stock from his subsequent film Der Stand der Dinge ( 1982 ) that would enable the young director to shoot the 30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise.

He is known for directing the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist.

Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, Detective Gaff in Blade Runner, and narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit.