Age: 29
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Asa Maxwell Thornton Bopp Farr Butterfield (born 1 April 1997) is an English actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Butterfield first achieved recognition as the lead of the historical drama film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). He continued to headline films during the 2010s, starring in the adventure drama Hugo (2011), the science fiction film Ender's Game (2013), the drama X+Y (2014), and the fantasy Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). From 2019 to 2023, Butterfield portrayed the lead of the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education. Description above from the Wikipedia article Asa Butterfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
2/16 (Phase 1) - Set in the 90s, Xavier is about 30. Movie documents his journey and struggles coping with his mutant ability Xavier, Marko, Joe MacTaggert, Carmen Pryde were all in the Gulf War (Marko supposedly dies). The term 'mutant' is unheard of, but Xavier makes it his thesis, and becomes an expert on the topic. After a series of life events that hurt him (friend Joe marries Xavier's love interest Moira, getting strange messages in his head from Tobias Messenger, etc), he goes on a global expedition to learn. Encounters the Shadow King in Egypt and defeats him, but not without losing his ability to walk. After defeating the Shadow King, he returns to the US and realizes that mutants can be dangerous and decides to scrap his plans of creating a school. He encounters a young mutant boy who is being attacked by a mob for destroying a construction crane with his optic blasts. He rescues him and adopts him, then decides to build the school again, realizing that mutants need protection.
