IONCINEMA.com presents: X-Men Origins: Magneto (2009)

CAST AND CREW

Director

David Goyer

X-Men Origins: Magneto

Release Date: 2009 - Wide Release
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Film Genre: Action
Country: United States

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This is based on the villainous character played in the first two "X-Men" films by Ian McKellen. The original "X-Men" film began with a prologue that showed Magneto as a child being led to a concentration camp by Nazis, and that is the period in which the new film will take place. This focuses on a young Magneto, the villain of the "X-Men" movies, and his friendship with a young Professor X, and how the two eventually became mortal enemies. The characters would not be played by Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart, who originated them in the series, but by actors in their 20s. That character was a soldier in the allied force that liberated the concentration camps. The professor meets Magneto after the war, and while they bond over the realization that they are alike in their special powers, their differences soon turn them into enemies.

TRIVIA

Turner wrote The Longest Yard (2005).

MOVIE NEWS ITEMS

2007-04-27
The Hollywood Reporter reports that David Goyer has come aboard to develop with an eye to direct.

2004-12-15
Variety reports that 20th Century Fox has set Sheldon Turner to write the project which marks the second extension of the studio's "X-Men" comic book franchise. The move follows a Fox deal with Troy screenwriter David Benioff to write Wolverine, who is played by Hugh Jackman in the films. Magneto will likely be produced by the "X-Men" duo of Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel Studios' Avi Arad.