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Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with minor roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera. Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).
The movie opens in the X-Mansion as the most recent set of mutants graduate and old X-Men reunite for the first time in years. We see people like Logan who recently got his memories back thanks to a serum Bruce Banner created, Cyclops who after being left by Jean Grey who is missing is now married to Emma Frost, Beast who after creating the cure for cancer is now a billionaire, Nightcrawler who rejoined the circus he belonged to before the X-Men, and more. Members like Colossus, Magneto, and Kitty Pryde did not return for a number of reasons. Kitty Pryde is currently in India trying to clear her mind now that Peter Parker is with Gwen Stacy, Colossus is working with the X-Force, and Magneto is looking for a way to stop aging. The movie ends with Cyclops and Logan visiting Charles Xavier's grave and saying goodbye. This isn't the end of the X-Men films in this universe but it is the end of the team we've been following. In the next X-Men film we're going to start fresh with new and familiar members.
