X-MEN: THE MOVIE
Stan Lee
THE CREW- diretor: Bryan Singer, producers: Lauren Donner & Ralph Winter, executive producers: Stan Lee, Richard Donner & Tom DeSanto, screenwriters: Ed Solomon, Bryan Singer & Tom DeSanto & costume designer: Laurie Mingenbach
Bryan Singer
Those who did not make the cast:
Dougray Scott:   He starred in movies such as Highlander, and Ever After.   Dougray was originally appoached to audition for the part of Gambit.  He later landed the role of Wolverine but conflicts between him and the producers led the role to be given to Jackman.
Sir Ian McKellan:  McKellan is an actor from Britain.  He plays the role of the Jewish character Eric Lehnsherr aka Magneto.  Magneto's life is marked with tradgedy he used to live in a village in his home country with his wife.  Well he was away one day his daughter was killed in a fire.  Magneto killed the villagers for not saving his daughters life. His wife witnessed the act and fled with his two unborn children.   Magneto is the main antagonist amongst the mutants in the movie.  Well Xavier has the X-Men, Magneto has the Brotherhood consisting of Sabretooth, Toad and Mystique. 
Jean Claude Van Dam: He is a Belgium born actor.  Van Dam's talents in martial arts and European accent would have made him perfect for the role of Remy LeBeau aka Gambit.  Van Dam was not approached though despite some fans hope that he would be.  Actor Russel Crowe disconfirmed rumors that he was apart of the cast well the movie was being made.
Kea Wong:  Kea plays the part of Jubilation Lee aka Jubilee.  Jubilee is an orphan who becomes a member of the New Mutants.

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The Cast:
Patrick Stewart: A British born actor Stewart has experience as a theatre actor.  He had a role on one of the popular star trek shows.  He has been in many movies since then and a tv movie in which, he plays the captain in the movie adaptation of the book Moby Dick.  Stewart plays Professor Charles Francis Xavier.  
Sumela Kay:  Kay was in the  movie Simon Birch along with Oliver Platt and Jim Carrey.  In the X-Men movie Kay plays the role of Katherine Pryde aka Shadowcat.   The character Shadowcat in the movie is a member of a group known as the New Mutants.