![]() Since his tenure writing for the popular Marvel team of mutants began in 1975, Claremont has gifted readers with not only some of the most famous characters in the X-Men continuity, but in pop culture as a whole. The X-Men is a modern mythology, and this is the story of its creation, in the words of the people who made it happen. Extreme challenges demand X-Treme X-Men The legendary Chris Claremont and fan-favorite artist Salvador Larroca send an elite squad of X-Men on a worldwide. No single writer has had the same amount of influence on the history of X-Men quite like Chris Claremont. The story of his groundbreaking seventeen year run on the title is also the story of a company in transition, of how Marvel moved from the free thinking “house of ideas” to a top down corporation, and how the success of the X-Men took away the very freedom that allowed Chris to create. ![]() This film tells the story of Chris and his small team of collaborators, who worked together to tell stories that inspired a generation of comics readers, and led directly to the creation of the blockbuster X-Men film franchise. Five years later, it was the biggest title in comics, and Claremont one of comics’ biggest stars. Young writer Chris Claremont was tasked with writing a new team of international X-Men. In the 1970s, X-Men was on the brink of cancellation, but Marvel decided to give the title one more shot. ![]()
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