X-Men Evolution News
March 24th

• It appeares the show will be around for a forth season, and one of the remaining four episodes of season 3 may air in season 4.
• New episodes are thought to start again in May but could possibly start airing in April.

June 20^th

• James Marsden recently spoke with About concerning the latest info on X3. He didn’t know a lot saying it looked like X3 would be out May 2 2006 or at Christmas. He also stated that he hadn’t been officially talking to anyone about coming back for X3. To read the entire interview click here.
• Hugh Jackman recently won a Tony for his Broadway prefomance in a Boy from Oz.
• Shawn Ashmore won the MTV Award for Breakout Preformer Male at the 2004 awards show for his role in X2.
• Famke Janssen spoke with The Calgary Sun about X-Men 3.   "I have a firm commitment to the X-Men movies. They are my priority. I've signed for a third. If, and when, it happens I'll arrange my schedule around it."   Janssen has reason to hope there will be a third and even a fourth X-Men movie. In the first two films Jean Grey is evolving slowly, but that promises to speed up considerably in future films.   "I'd never read a comic book before I got offered X-Men. When I told people I was playing Jean Grey they were all excited for me," recalls Janssen. "In the comics her arc becomes quite dark. She turns into Phoenix and then into Dark Phoenix. The battle within her is the battle that exists between the two factions of mutants. I have no idea where the writers will go with Jean's story, but there are some great possibilities and ones I'd really like to explore."   There's another arc Janssen wouldn't mind exploring. "In the comics she and Cyclops (James Marsden) have a child. That's now a possibility since we at least got to kiss in X2: X-Men United."

• X2 has been officially retitled to X-Men 2: United.
• Several of the films stars will be appearing on various talk shows to prmote the film.  The following is a list of some of the appearences:                               April 28th  Hugh Jackman on Jay Leno and Anna Pacquin on Craig Killborn                                                                                                                             April 29th Famke Janssen  on Craig Killborn and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos  on Jay Leno                                                                                                         May 6th Famke Janssen on Craig Killborn and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos on Jay Leno                                                                                                             May 9th Rebecca Romijn-Stamos on Carson Daily (NBC)

• Fox is planning to air a 30 min. X-Men 2 comparison show with clips from the movie as well as interviews with the actors.  The show is expected to air April 20, no time has been set.
• The WB did air a 2 in preview of X-Men 2 during the March 25th airing of Smallville.  The two min. was almost entirely devoted to Rogue and Bobby with appearances by Logan, Pyro, the Drake family and Professor X.

• During Smallville on the WB tommorrow night (25/03) an exclusive footage from X2 will be seen.  The information comes from Comics Continuum.  The orginal artical read as follows: "A preview of X2 will air during Tuesday's broadcast of Smallville on The WB.  A WB representative told The Continuum that the preview will be "exclusive" and will feature a scene from the film. The preview will last two minutes."
• A new contest called Mutant Madness is currently running in conjuction with X2's offical web site.

Points of Interest From X-Men: The Movie
w Hugh Jackman wasn't the first man chosen to play Wolverine.  Dougray Scott was orginally cast but had to give up the role because of his work on  Mission: Impossible II.
w The Beast (Hank McCoy) was suppose to be included in the first movie but of the extensive makeup required to bring the character to life he was axed and Jean Grey became Dr. Jean Grey
w James Marsden had to ware platform shoes, despite being 6'1" so he would appear to be taller than Hugh Jackman who is 6'2".