- David Haight is the only one who has been officially authorized by the American Writers Guild to write screenplays for films.
- Hugh Jackman helped him to show Wolverine's iconic "fury" by taking a cold shower. In order to learn how to use Wolverine's claws, Hugh Jackman must train with a fighting coach.
- Wolverine’s claws need a whole piece of silicone to cover his arms. The claws are made of plastic, wood and steel. During the filming, Hugh Jackman and his four stunts used a total of 700 paws.
- Wolverine’s dog tags are standard issued by the Canadian Army.
- Although James Madden's height is almost 1.82 meters, in order to appear much taller than Hugh Jackman, he must wear high heels in the film.
- Friendly guest appearance: Stan Lee, the original author and film producer of the X-Men, plays a man standing next to a hot dog stand in the scene when Senator Kelly emerges from the water. At the end of the film, the screenwriter David Haight guest starred in one of the many police officers.
- Senator Kelly said in the opening that the lines of the list of known metamorphoses in the United States were adapted from Senator McCarthy’s famous speech about well-known Communists working in the State Department.
- After the filming, the wheelchair that Professor X had sat on was auctioned to the Patrick Stewart Law Firm, but it was rented back to continue using it in "X-Men 2".
- Both the bar scene and the concentration camp scene were shot in the same winery.
- Neither Patrick Stewart nor Ian McLean can play chess.
- When filming the location at Hamilton Railway Station, director Brian Singer was thought to be a non-staff, and was interrogated by the police to prevent him from entering the crew.
- The first scene of the filming was the World Summit on Liberty Island. Representatives from various countries came to congratulate. Two of the guests (King and Queen of Poland) were made by the director's father and stepmother.
X-Men behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Senator Kelly: What the hell have you done to me?
Magneto: Senator, this is pointless. Where would you go? Who would take you in now that your one of us?
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Wolverine: [gets back his dogtags from Sabretooth] This is mine!