X-Men: The Last Stand is a 2006 superhero film and the third in the X-Men series. Director Brett Ratner took over when Bryan Singer dropped out to direct Superman Returns. The Last Stand revolves around a “mutant cure” that causes serious repercussions among mutants and humans, and on the mysterious resurrection of Jean Grey. The film is loosely based on two X-Men comic book story arcs: writer Chris Claremont’s and artist John Byrne’s “The Dark Phoenix Saga” and writer Joss Whedon’s and artist John Cassaday’s six-issue “Gifted” arc.
Mutants are on the verge of X-tinction, it seems, when US business Worthington Industries discovers a cure for mutation. This scientific breakthrough complicates and intensifies the battle – both physical and ideological – between Professor X’s integration-friendly X-Men and the human-hating muties let by Magneto …
Screening in English with English subtitles.
Following the screening, there will be a discussion.
