See All of Entertainment Weekly's X-Men Covers

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X-Men on the Cover of Entertainment Weekly

X-Men: Apocalypse arrives in theaters this weekend, hitting the big screen more than 15 years after the film franchise was first featured on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. In honor of the new release, see all of EW's X-Men covers through the years, ahead.

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April 28 / May 5, 2000

Film: X-Men, released July 14, 2000, starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry, and Anna Paquin, among others.

Best quote from the interview: From director Bryan Singer: "Everyone has felt like an outcast. This movie dramatizes extreme examples of this — and extreme solutions."

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July 21, 2000

Film: X-Men, released July 14, 2000, starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry, and Anna Paquin, among others.

Best quote from the interview: From director Bryan Singer: "I had no interest in it [initially] because I didn't know what it was. It was just a comic book... [But] it was just really interesting... I had the privilege of both being a nerd and doing horribly at school, and the result was feeling completely unknown very often. I got picked on for everything. I was weird looking. I wore the same clothes all the time. But as you get older you find that everybody has something that makes them feel different, which is why X-Men has proved so appealing."

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January 24 / 31, 2003

Film: X2, released May 2, 2003, starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Romijn, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry, and Anna Paquin, among others.

Best quote from the interview: From Rebecca Romijn: "I think for the Blue People — Alan Cumming and myself — we both felt like circus freaks."

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May 9, 2003

Film: X2, released May 2, 2003, starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Romijn, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry, and Anna Paquin, among others.

Best quote from the interview: From director Bryan Singer: "I feel like Alexander the Great having a crisis about my invasion. Stopping in the middle of the battlefield while the troops are all just standing there. And I'm thinking, Aw, God, they think I'm nuts."

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May 26, 2006

Film: X-Men: The Last Stand, released May 26, 2006, starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Romijn, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Kelsey Grammer, and Anna Paquin, among others.

Best quote from the interview: From director Brett Ratner: "Do you think that this studio would give me several hundred million dollars if I wasn't a serious filmmaker? These guys are not f---ing around."

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April 24 / May 1, 2009

Film: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released May 1, 2009, starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Will.i.am, Ryan Reynolds, Dominic Monaghan, and Taylor Kitsch, among others.

Best quote from the interview: From star Hugh Jackman: "I wanted to look like [Robert] De Niro did when he took off his shirt in Cape Fear and everyone went, 'Whoa.' You realized the guy was a freak. There were moments when I would wake up completely sore and say to my wife, 'I have a feeling this is like childbirth.'"

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May 31 / June 7, 2013

Film: The Wolverine, released July 26, 2013, starring Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, and Hiroyuki Sanada, among others.

Best quote from the interview: From star Hugh Jackman: "I had something to prove, and we could have done better. Somehow the first Wolverine movie ended up looking like the fourth X-Men — just with different characters. I left unsure if we'd achieved our goal, which was to make sure people understood my character. This movie will really get to his core. So... Fingers crossed we've done it this time. I'm pretty confident we have."

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April 18 / 25, 2014

Film: X-Men: Days of Future Past, released May 23, 2014, starring Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart, among others.

Best quote from the interview: From director Bryan Singer: "Everyone grew up knowing Captain America or the Hulk, but not X-Men characters — I didn't even know who Wolverine was. I call X-Men the bastard stepchild of the comic universes."

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