screenplays-by-simon-kinberg

"[first lines] Mutants: born with extraordinary abilities, and yet still, they are children stumbling in the dark, searching for guidance. A gift can often be a curse. Give someone wings, and they may fly too close to the sun. Give them the power of prophecy, and they may live in fear of the future. Give them the greatest gift of all, powers beyond imagination, and they may think they are meant to rule the world."

"Oh. Hi, Japan! Deadpool here. Surprised? I just wanted to share with you my two cents on five things you may have missed in the X-Men: Apocalypse trailer. I know what you're thinking. 'An after credits scene for a trailer? I thought they only did that for movies', right? Well, not everyone makes it to the end of Fox movies. So, now we're doing it after trailers. Number One: This movie is set in the eighties and apparently, Apocalypse kicks Professor X's ass but forgetting to wake him up before he go-go. Number Two: Major plot twist. When Quicksilver discloses to Mystique that Magneto is his father and he's a fan of Canadian supergroup Rush. So many plot twists. Number Three: Fun fact. Psylocke is a hot looking girl using a super-powered katana and I'm a horrible-looking man using a katana. Twinsies! Number Four: Looks like they're introducing a Japanese mutant with ginsu knives coming out of his hands. Let's see how that goes. Number Five: This wasn't really in the trailer but important for you to know. The newest addition to the super-dysfunctional X-Men family, me, Deadpool comes out in Japan on June 1. I've definitely never felt power like this before. So, be there! June 1."

"Only the strong will survive"

"Prepare for the Apocalypse."

"[having manipulated the launch of all nuclear weapons out into orbit] Always the same, and now all this. No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords. No more weapons! No more systems! No more! No more superpowers... So much faith in their tools, in their machines... You can fire your arrows from the Tower of Babel... BUT YOU CAN NEVER... STRIKE... GOD!!!!!"

"[to Magneto] You will reach down, my son, deep into the earth. Rip everything they've built from the ground. Wipe clean this world, and we will lead those that survive into a better one."

"Elohim, Pushan, Ra – I've been called many names over many lifetimes. I am born of death. I was there to spark and fan the flame of man's awakening, to spin the wheel of civilization. And when the forest would grow rank and needed clearing for new growth, I was there to set it ablaze."

"[to Scott, Jean, Kurt, Ororo, Peter, Beast at the Danger Room] Forget everything you think you know. Whatever lessons you learned in school... whatever your parents taught you... none of that matters. You're not kids anymore. You're not students. You're X-Men. [glances to Beast to start their training session, with Sentinels appearing; Professor X watches as the Danger Room doors close.]"

"My name isn't Henryk, My name is Magneto."

"[screaming skywards] IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME?! Is this what I am?! Is this what I am?"

"Samuel L. Jackson - Roland Cox"

"There are some things you can't jump, David!!"

"Paladins have been killing Jumpers for years. Way back since medieval times. They're fanatics. Religious nut jobs. Inquisition, witch hunts. That was them. Look, they're smart. They're fast, they're organized. No matter what, they'll kill anyone that gets in their way. Like your family, your friends. That little girlfriend you're traipsing around with you. They're dead. All of them. Get used to it. It's just a matter of time."

"Anywhere is possible."

"Anywhere. Anything. Instantly."

"Hayden Christensen - David Rice"

"Max Thieriot - 15-year-old David"

"Ryan Grantham - 5-year-old David"

"Rachel Bilson - Millie Harris"

"AnnaSophia Robb - young Millie"

"Jamie Bell - Griffin O'Connor"

"Diane Lane - Mary Rice"

"Teddy Dunn - Mark Kobold"

"Jesse James - young Mark"

"Michael Rooker - William Rice,"

"Kristen Stewart - Sophie"

"Tom Hulce - Mr. Bowker"

"Barbara Garrick - Ellen"

"Let me tell you about my day so far. Coffee in Paris, surfed the Maldives, took a little nap on Kilimanjaro. Oh, yeah, I got digits from this Polish chick in Rio. And then I jumped back for the final quarter of the N.B.A. finals, courtside of course. And that was all before lunch. I could go on, but all I'm saying is, I'm standing on top of the world."

"[to Roland] I told you I'm different. I could have dropped you with the sharks."

"[to David] You think it could go on like this forever? Living like this with no consequences? [David tries to Jump and Cox stops him] There are always consequences!"

"You think you can hide behind a wall? Go anywhere?! Do anything?! NOT ANYMORE!!"

"But what if mutants don't want to be "cured"? What if they're happy the way they are, and cherish their differences? Xavier has always tried to encourage that kind of thinking, but Magneto (Ian McKellen), his archenemy in X-Man land, takes a more direct approach. He wages war against Worthington and all those who would foist a "cure" on the mutants. Although Magneto has always been the villain of the series, this time he makes a good point. So strong is Leech's anti-mutant power that a mutant need only stand near him to lose his or her abilities; maybe the antibody works through pheromones. Meanwhile, Mutant Cure Clinics spring up around the country and are picketed by pro-Mutant militants. Extremists arm themselves with guns that can fire the antibody, and go out to shoot themselves some mutants. Beast, as the administration's Cabinet minister in charge of mutant affairs, is caught in the middle. There are so many parallels here with current political and social issues that to list them is to define the next presidential campaign. Just writing the previous paragraph, I thought of abortion, gun control, stem cell research, the "gay gene" and the Minutemen. "Curing" mutants is obviously a form of genetic engineering and stirs thoughts of "cures" for many other conditions humans are born with, which could be loosely defined as anything that prevents you from being just like George or Georgette Clooney. The fact is, most people grow accustomed to the hands they've been dealt and rather resent the opportunity to become "normal." (Normal in this context is whatever makes you more like them and less like yourself.) "X-Men: The Last Stand" raises all of these questions in embryonic form, but doesn't engage them in much detail, because it is often distracted by the need to be an action movie. Consider, for example, the lengths Magneto goes to in order to neutralize young Leech. The kid is being held on Alcatraz? Very well then, Magneto will stand on the Golden Gate Bridge and use his powers of industrial-strength levitation to rip loose a whole span of the bridge and rotate it so that it joins Alcatraz with the mainland and his forces can march on Worthington's fortress."

"One of the distractions in all the "X-Men" movies is that the X-Men are always getting involved in local incidents that have little to do with the big picture. They demonstrate their powers during disagreements and courtships, neighborhood emergencies, psychological problems or while showing off. After three movies you'd think they would have learned to coordinate their efforts, so that Storm (Halle Berry), for example, is not suddenly needed to brew up a last-minute storm and save the neighborhood/city/state/world. My guess is there are just plain too many mutants, and their powers are so various and ill-matched that it's hard to keep them all on the same canvas. The addition of Beast, Angel and Leech, not to mention Multiple Man, Juggernaut and the revived Dr. Jean Grey (reborn as Dark Phoenix) causes a Mutant Jam, because there are too many X-Men with too many powers for a 104-minute movie. There are times when the director, Brett Ratner, seems to be scurrying from one plot line to another like that guy who had to keep all of his plates spinning on top of their poles."

"The cure is really the villain of the movie. Every single character is going to have an opinion of it. I really understand the point of view of Magneto and of Xavier. I understand why someone like Storm would definitely not take the cure. If you know the comic book, the backstory of Storm is that she was worshipped in her village of Africa and she changed the weather. So, why would she ever take the cure? It didn't make sense. And then there's Rogue, who can't have contact with humans, you would understand why she would consider taking it. I think it has a lot of contemporary relevance. I think it's something that is an issue that a lot of people deal with. Alienation, prejudice and I think that each person is going to feel differently about it. If you offered gays an opportunity to get a shot and they won't be gay anymore, some gays will be like, "Oh, I'm happy being gay. I wanna be gay." Some people would be like, "I suffered my whole life... okay, make me straight." If they could."

"I was really looking forward to Singer doing the third one because it wound be an out and out gay fantasia-I was hoping the dude would go for a kind of Brokeback Mutant kind of movie, but he opted to do Superman."

"Take a Stand"

"Whose Side Will You Be On?"

"Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"

"[to Wolverine, in a deleted scene] I heard your claws can cut through anything. Wanna take a shot?"

"[deleted scene] Mutants and humans. They have long struggled to coexist. While some try to unite the world, others try to dominate it. Neither strategy has prevailed. But when conflicts reach an impasse, inevitably something happens to shift the balance forever."

"[After headbutting Pyro] You never should've left."

"[After kicking a mutant in the groin] Grow those back."

"Yeah. We're outnumbered. I'm not gonna lie to you. But we lost Scott. We lost the Professor. If we don't fight now, everything we stood for will fight with them. I'm not gonna let that happen. Are you? [Bobby shakes his head.] Then we stand together... X-Men, all of us."

"In chess, the pawns go first."

"Charles Xavier did more for mutants than you'll ever know. My single greatest regret is that he had to die for our dream to live."

"I have been marked once, my dear, and let me assure you... no needle shall ever touch my skin again."

"[Post-credit scene] Hello, Moira."

"You have more power than you can imagine, Jean. The question is, will you control that power... or let it control you?"