It turns out that Bryan Singer, one of the men most responsible for the current era of comic book movies, didn’t actually want comic books on set during the production of the first X-Men movie.
The actor is currently promoting his new political drama The Front Runner and, during a recent interview, he revealed that Bryan Singer considered comic books to be contraband during production.
Singer, strangely, felt it was best to keep the source material away from set in those early days.
X-Men set itself apart from previous comic book movies in that it treated the material very seriously and gave its characters complex human emotions, motivations and backstory, in addition to superpowers.