How Many X-Men Movies Are There?

There are 13 X-Men movies in the Fox series, counted as 7 main films and 6 spin-offs. The main run opens with X-Men (2000), directed by Bryan Singer, and closes with Dark Phoenix (2019), directed by Simon Kinberg. The spin-offs follow Wolverine, Deadpool and a group of teenage mutants held in a hospital. Online counts jump between 13 and 14, and the gap is one film: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) has its own page in the Marvel franchise and is not counted here. For the full franchise overview, start at the X-Men movies hub.

The 13 films split into the first trilogy, the prequel era, the Wolverine trilogy, and the two Deadpool films plus The New Mutants. The first trilogy begins with X-Men (2000), a 104 minute film on a $75 million budget that grossed about $296 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. X2 (2003), also directed by Singer, added Brian Cox as William Stryker and Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, and lifted the worldwide total to about $408 million. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), directed by Brett Ratner, introduced Kelsey Grammer as Beast and took about $460 million worldwide on a $210 million budget.

The prequel era is X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Dark Phoenix. Matthew Vaughn directed First Class, which recasts a young Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr with James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, opens in a Nazi camp in 1944 and then moves to 1962. Singer returned for Days of Future Past, which sends Wolverine's mind back to 1973 and became the biggest main film by gross, at about $746 million worldwide. Apocalypse, with Oscar Isaac as En Sabah Nur, is set in 1983 and is the longest film in the series at 144 minutes. Dark Phoenix, set in 1992 with Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, grossed about $252 million worldwide against a $200 million budget.

The six spin-offs are X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), The Wolverine (2013), Deadpool (2016), Logan (2017), Deadpool 2 (2018) and The New Mutants (2020). Gavin Hood directed Origins, with Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed, and James Mangold directed both The Wolverine, which opens near Nagasaki in 1945, and Logan, which is set in 2029 and carries an R rating. Tim Miller directed Deadpool on a $58 million budget, and David Leitch directed the sequel. Josh Boone directed The New Mutants, the smallest earner of the 13 at about $49 million worldwide on a $67 million budget. The Wolverine movies in order have their own guide.

You can watch the 13 films in release order or in story order, and the two lists differ mainly in where the prequels and Wolverine films land. Release order is X-Men (2000), X2, The Last Stand, Origins, First Class, The Wolverine, Days of Future Past, Deadpool, Apocalypse, Logan, Deadpool 2, Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants. Chronological order is First Class, Origins, X-Men (2000), X2, The Last Stand, The Wolverine, Days of Future Past, Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Logan and The New Mutants. If you are new to the saga, release order keeps the reveals as the filmmakers staged them, and the X-Men movies in order guide explains each choice. The X-Men timeline shows how the years fit together.

Yes, Marvel Studios is developing its own X-Men film, and it sits outside the Fox count of 13. The film is dated for May 5, 2028 in US theaters, with Jake Schreier directing, according to TheWrap. The cast announced at Disney's D23 Expo in August 2026 includes Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Kit Connor as Cyclops, Christopher Abbott as Professor X, Inde Navarrette as Rogue, Maya Boyd as Storm, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost and Adam Driver as Mister Sinister. No filming start date has been reported. Status, dates and rumors are tracked on the new X-Men movie page, and the new X-Men movie trailer page is where footage will appear once it exists.

The count is only the starting point, and several pages go deeper on the 13 films. The X-Men box office page lists budgets and grosses for each one, and where to watch X-Men covers streaming in the US, UK and Australia. For a verdict on which film is best, see X-Men movies ranked, and for the people on screen, browse the X-Men cast and the X-Men characters. If you plan a full marathon, begin with the watch order page.