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William Stryker appears in X2: X-Men United, primarily portrayed by Brian Cox and by Brad Loree in flashbacks. This version is a U.S. Army Colonel and scientist who previously lobotomized his son, Jason, to make him more docile and to extract a mind-controlling substance from his body. After kidnapping and brainwashing several mutants, Stryker ...
X2 (also marketed as X2: X-Men United, [2] [5] and internationally as X-Men 2) [6] [7] is a 2003 American superhero film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and David Hayter, from a story by Singer, Hayter and Zak Penn. The film is based on the X-Men superhero team appearing in Marvel Comics.
Brian Cox as William Stryker in X2: X-Men United. (Photo: ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection) (©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection)
The plot of the 2003 film X2, which was released by 20th Century Fox, took inspiration from God Loves, Man Kills. [2] Some of the similarities include: William Stryker is the main villain. The collaboration of the X-Men with Magneto, their arch-rival; The kidnapping of Professor Charles Xavier and some of his X-Men
Brian Cox has expressed concern for the state of the film industry.. The Succession actor, 78, who played the Marvel character Colonel William Stryker in X2: X-Men United, partly blamed the ...
Colonel William Stryker brainwashes and questions the imprisoned Magneto about Professor Xavier's mutant-locating machine, Cerebro. Stryker attacks the X-Mansion and brainwashes Xavier into locating every mutant on the planet to kill them. The X-Men must team up with the Brotherhood to prevent Stryker's worldwide genocide.
In the sequel X2 (2003), Raven uncovers evidence of William Stryker's plan to build a second Cerebro and then help Magneto escape his plastic prison by seducing one of his guards in her human form and injecting him with excess iron; Mystique and Magneto then join the X-Men in foiling Stryker's plan to use his own mutant son Jason to trick ...
Brian Cox, who played the villainous Colonel William Stryker in 2003’s “X2: X-Men United,” defended Singer’s set behavior in an interview with Yahoo Entertainment earlier this year. Cox ...