An early draft of the script leaked onto the Internet in June 2005 during Matthew Vaughn's brief tenure as director. The script contained notable deleted scenes and characters, including a sequence in which Rogue and Beast break into Worthington Labs to further research the "cure" serum, lifted directly from Joss Whedon's "Gifted" storyline, and a sexual relationship between Storm and Wolverine. This draft also included the character of Cecilia Reyes, a mutant scientist and rival of Dr. Kavita Rao. Somewhat ironically, Shohreh Aghdashloo was originally cast as Reyes before the character was eliminated, and the actress re-cast as Rao instead. This version of the script also sparked the controversy surrounding the reduced screentime of Cyclops, Mystique, and Professor X. In order to combat negative buzz surrounding the movie, Brett Ratner ordered several major changes in editing, and shot several new scenes to leave the movie more open-ended, allowing potential for future sequels. Originally, Cyclops was to die on-screen, murdered by Jean Grey, Professor X's death was meant to be definitive, as was the loss of Mystique's powers. Ratner re-edited Cyclops' scene to only imply his death, leaving the potential for the character to return in future sequels, and added the after-credits coda of Moira MacTaggart discovering Xavier's mind transferred to a different body. Also scripted, but not shot, were scenes of Jean Grey's gravesite exploding in a fireball, implying her resurrection, and a scene of Mystique playing chess with Magneto, where she offers him a drug that will restore his powers.

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