Wednesday
12Nov2008
Details Emerge About 'Magneto' Storyline
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 7:59AM
Although a couple of movies that opened this May had
disappointing American box office returns (Speed Racer, Prince Caspian),
it's almost a guarantee that May 2009 will be hit after hit...after hit...after
hit. 
“The original X-Men film began with a prologue that showed the character as a child being led to a concentration camp by Nazis and that is the period in which the Magneto film will take place. This setup will allow a future villain to at least flirt with the designation of protagonist since the character will be seen almost exclusively in his formative years. The storyline will heavily involve Professor X, the wheelchair-using X-Men leader. 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.”
Now, that wasn't much fun to read, but the nuts and bolts are in there somewhere: It's a period piece, covering the ground from when Erik Lehnsherr was a prisoner at Auschwitz to the discovery of his powers to the meetcute with Professor X to the psychic battle that sets up the sequel.
I'm surprised there's as much Xavier, but I guess you can't really have one without the other. As for Sir Ian McKellen, expect him to bookend the film with narration but not to appear onscreen.
There's no timetable for X-Men Origins: Magneto yet, although I wish they'd get to this one sooner than later. It actually sounds more interesting than Wolverine, even though it will be much darker and less mainstream.
Reader Comments (3)
It could also be interesting to see how they come across their first recruits to their respective sides and see those relationships.
I'm more excited to see this movie than I am Wolverine, and hope it is made with minimal special efx. Just get Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan to have a two hour staring contest with Bryan Singer as director, and I'm in. Maybe they can use their minds to destroy Brett Ratner and all remaining DVD copies of X3 and the studio's master reel...
That would be awesome!
The staring contest is a novel approach, as is blowing up Ratner Scanners-style.