The Art of X2: The Collectors Edition (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook)
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Illustrated with over 300 stills and drawings, including the complete screenplay, the only book on the making of the spectacular X-Men 2 and the X-Men film franchise.
Outcasts from society, the X-Men are genetic mutants, born with superhuman powers, who harness their special abilities for the greater good. But the human race they fight to protect rejects and fears—even hates—them.
Initially realized in the Marvel Comic Book adventures, the first X-Men major feature film was released by Fox in 2000, directed by Bryan Singer, who had previously directed Apt Pupil and The Usual Suspects. Its stunning success—theatrically grossing nearly $300 million worldwide, and becoming a video and DVD phenomenon—signaled the current wave of comics to film adaptations and guaranteed the sequel, which reunites the principal cast members and the original’s key creative team, including director Bryan Singer, cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel, and production designer Guy Dyas.
The new X2 will feature several surprises, including favorite mutant characters from the vast X-Men comics universe, who are new to the film franchise. 300 color illustrations.
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19 reviews for The Art of X2: The Collectors Edition (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook)
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Marcos Paulo da Silva –
Com várias imagens e informações extras, o livro apresenta muitos detalhes e depoimentos sobre a construção do filme e dos personagens. Para quem ama X-MEN 2, esse é um acompanhamento muito bom para o filme.
scotts980 –
If you are looking for concept art, production stills and behind the scenes photography, this is the book.
The book goes in chronological order, for the most part, and shows the concept drawings and paintings, the storyboard sketches (and text), and places them next to finished photography of the sets and characters, which gives you a great idea of how the concepts are turned into reality.
It takes you into character development for all of the major characters, with concept art to final film stills. The characters covered are: Nightcrawler (with a great full page poster of “the amazing nightcrawler”), Charles Xavier, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Rogue, Storm, Pyro, Magneto, Mystique, Mutant 143, and Lady Deathstrike. Most characters have only 2 pages each, but Nightcrawler, Mystique, Wolverine, Mutant 143, and Lady Deathstrike have multiple pages which show sketches and final photography.
The locations/sets covered in the book are: the White House, X-Mansion, Cerebro, Plastic Prison, X-Jet, Alkali Lake, and Stryker’s Base.
This book is 100% filled with great content: drawings, photos, and storyboards, along with a section on the special effects. I wish it were twice as big, but everything in the book is awesome.
BAUMGARTNER Allan –
reçu dans les temps et état impeccable.
L’artbook en lui même est bien mais un peu conventionel.
(pas mal de recherche mais pas vraiment d’historique sur ces étapes)
Suivi du scénario et de quelques pages consacré au 1er film X-Men
qui n’ont pas trop d’intéret dans le livre dédié au volume 2 je trouve.
Brian Shopaholic –
Love the art and pictures, the storyboards could have been drawn better though.
Lunette Ursula Crawley –
Being new to the world of the X-men, this book has everything to offer for the die hard fan. The Beautiful black hardcover (not to mention its wonderful slipcover with the entire cast on front) is amazing! The book is filled with illistrations, costume drawings, stroyboards, idea drawings of the proposed danger room, characther bios, and the best part…the complete movie script of X2! Well worth buying. I would suggest any fan to buy to add to his/her collection.
Patricia Huerta –
My first impression was WOW! This book captures the essence of the movie. It’s great to see the story boards it just makes you remember every scene of this excellent movie. It’s obvious all the crew involved in X2 cared a lot about details and art and this book crowns it. The addition of the movie script is great, i think we fans love to read the original script to see what scenes didnt make it to the final and wonder what they looked like (if they add them in the DVD it would be fantastic). The quality of this book is absolutely great. Beautiful pictures in every page you turn. A must to every X2 fan.
Alejandro Macias –
The description states that the “whole screenplay is included” which is not true, it is not part of this book. If you want the book for the pictures, art, storyboards, and trivia, it is an ok product.
The Art and Making of –
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It’s a real shame the X-Men movies have not received the same number of ‘Art and/or Making of’ books as other comic book movies (there is only this and Art of X-Men The Last Stand: From Concept to Feature Film (Pictorial Moviebook).
There are too many screenshots, not enough depth in the commentary and the quality of the art is surprisingly poor for a movie born out of the visually dynamic medium of comic books.
The most impressive thing is that they have actually made a “collector’s edition” art book that actually feels like it adds value without jacking up the price five times. The inclusion of the script is unnecessary, but the Nightcrawler gate-fold and (very) small X-Men 1 art section at least won’t make you feel like you wasted your money as many other collector’s editions are wont to do.
Although, considering this book came out at a time when Newmarket Press were churning out movie books that were rarely little more than screen-shots designed to promote/capitalize on new films, this book is actually one of the better ones – but today’s readers will probably find the whole thing unimpressive.
(For a full flip-through and in-depth review, use the Youtube link on my Amazon profile)
Parka –
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This book is somewhere between “art of” and “making of”.
The book starts off looking back at the success of the first X-men movie, and the new challenges and changes to the production. Included is also a very brief story on how Bryan Singer got started in filming, from his schooling days. This book is slightly lacking in depth because all these interesting information are limited to the first few pages.
There are lots of movie stills, storyboards and concept art. Captions are included and there are quotes from the actors who play the individual X-men. The captions tell the obvious and would do better to explain the concept behind the designs as well. Character designs for the X-men comes with a few concept sketches and movie stills. Also included are designs for the X-Mansion and Plastic prison, X-Jet and Stryker’s base. The storyboards are on scenes for Nightcrawler’s opening sequence, Magneto’s escape and X-jet attack.
The book has great page design with the pictures. The author could really use more art to replace the movie stills, but it’s really minor as the stills look pretty good. But isn’t this suppose to be an art book?
Overall, it’s still a very entertaining book to read for fans of the movie.
(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
Marcos Paulo da Silva –
A wonderful book for X-Men or film enthusiasts alike.
The book is full of insightful knowledge regarding all the creative processes, ( set design, make up, matte paintings, costume and character design, etc.) that went in to the creation of the X2 movie.
My only slight ‘niggle’ is that the special edition only contains one extra page of conceptual ideas and the script of the movie.
If having the script is something you’re not bothered about then I would say go for the regular copy of the art of X2.
That aside, a really good book.