Matt Frewer as Doctor Russel Tresh, an unethical scientist and researcher who is investigating subliminal and psychic powers. He worked on a project with Emma Frost, who got him fired for his unethical behavior. Following this he put his talents towards the advertising industry where he uses the money to build a machine to access the "dream dimension". Production Development Some changes were made to the characters in the development of this film. Jubilation "Jubilee" Lee, for example, was not portrayed as a character of Asian descent, despite the X-Men comics and broadcast series having portrayed her as Chinese American. Two new characters, Buff and Refrax, were created to replace characters from the comics. Producer Eric Blakeney had wanted to include Chamber but his powers would have been too expensive to produce on the film's budget. Refrax (Kurt Pastorius) was created to replace Chamber, who had his chest and the lower half of his face destroyed when his powers emerged. Buff (Arlee Hicks) was created to replace Husk, who sheds her skin revealing an epidermis of a different composition beneath. Locations The mansion used for the Xavier Institute is Hatley Castle, which was also used as Xavier's school in the films X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse and Deadpool 2. It also served as the Luthor family mansion on the television series Smallville and as the Queen family mansion in early seasons of the television series Arrow. Release Generation X was broadcast on Fox as part of the Fox Tuesday Night at the Movies on February 20, 1996. Just before the release, the TV special was testing the waters for a series of TV movies instead of a TV series. References External links X-Men films 1990s American films 1990s science fiction action films 1990s superhero films 1996 films 1996 television films 1990s English-language films American science fiction action films American superhero films Films directed by Jack Sholder Films scored by J. Peter Robinson Fox network original films New World Pictures films Television pilots not picked up as a series Live-action films based on Marvel Comics