While comic book movies are basically the most consistently performing blockbusters in today's Hollywood, the genre had plenty of naysayers back in 2000 when the first X-Men blockbuster was coming out. At that time it was unclear if film adaptations of the material would actually work, or if the material would only speak to geek audiences and nobody else. This was a serious concern for everyone involved with the production, but apparently someone went as far as to tell star Hugh Jackman at the time that he needed to prepare for it to be a total failure:
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