Magneto The Movie

Maybe Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) can play Xavier 😛

there's a bit about it in the Comic Continuum for today - clicky here, I'm not quite sure how I feel about this yet....
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😂 😂 i dunno maybe.... he is good at the philosphical stuff.....and he can play a bald guy pretty good...... maybe.

Originally posted by Shadow_King
😂 😂 i dunno maybe.... he is good at the philosphical stuff.....and he can play a bald guy pretty good...... maybe.

😂

😂 and maybe..... uhhh.... um....... who is good to play as magneto thats the big question.

Originally posted by Shadow_King
😂 and maybe..... uhhh.... um....... who is good to play as magneto thats the big question.

Richard Gere?? 😛

ok i think thats a little too old.

I can't think of anything else. 😉

tom welling???

Here is another report on the news

Magneto Movie In The Works

Wanted: a younger Ian McKellen for X-Men spin-off
13 December 2004

Think of the great spin-offs you may have seen. Frasier. Max & Paddy’s Road To Nowhere. Frosted Wheats. Now think of the bad – Joanie Loves Chachi, Holby City, Raisin Wheats – and you’ll quickly realise that the bad in this case outweighs the good. So into which category will Fox and Marvel’s Magneto, the X-Men spin-off that was announced today, fit?

We’re erring on the side of the former, mainly because the plotline for the movie, as pitched to Marvel and Fox by Sheldon Turner, screenwriter of the forthcoming Adam Sandler remake, The Longest Yard, sounds intriguing. "I pitched a film that is almost The Pianist meets X-Men, about a guy who, after watching his family slaughtered, has an awakening of his powers and seeks revenge," he told Variety.

And that combo sounds right. Magneto will take place just after World War II, as an embittered and significantly younger Erik Magnus Lensherr vows revenge for the death of his family and the broader genocide of the Jews in the Holocaust. Along the way, he discovers his powers, his mutant activism and meets up with another young mutant – Professor Charles Xavier – sowing the seeds for a friendship/rivalry that will feed into the X-Men movies.

Inspired by the prologue to Bryan Singer’s original X-Men, in which we saw a young Lensherr first display his powers of magnetism at a WWII concentration camp, Magneto promises to be a much more serious and thoughtful affair than most comic book movies, and could form a fascinating insight into the relationship between Xavier and Magneto, which is one of the most complicated and vital in comics. Their Martin Luther King-Malcolm X dynamic was the main factor that persuaded Singer to sign on for X-Men in the first place.

It’s certainly a brave move on Fox and Marvel’s part (the movie will be produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel’s Avi Arad) to base a spin-off around the X-franchise’s principal villain and not, say, Xavier himself. It’s also not clear at the moment whether Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen, who play the older Professor X and Magneto in the X-movies, will make appearances here, but one thing is certain: two young (probably British) actors are going to have the chance of a lifetime.

Fox/Marvel are obviously gearing up for an X-Men onslaught over the next couple of years. Screenwriters Simon Kinberg and David Benioff are slaving away at the moment on their scripts for X-Men 3 and a Wolverine spin-off for Hugh Jackman, respectively. No directors are in place for any of the X-projects, but it can only be a matter of time with the studios aiming for a release pattern kicking off in Summer 2006.

We’ll obviously keep you updated on Magneto and any other X-Men news – spin-offs for Halle Berry’s Storm? James Marsden’s Cyclops? Ray Park’s Toad? – as we get it.

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/NewsStory.asp?news_id=16426

Originally posted by Shadow_King
tom welling???

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i was never good with casting and thats why i never want to grow up as a cast director

but hey if tom welling is in it then hm and michael would have opposite roles than they would usually have in smallville.

true

I think unknowns would be best for the roles of Xavier and Magnus.

just a quick question if they do this movie will magneto have the bigger role or will it be equal with xavier as well.

"Fox/Marvel are obviously gearing up for an X-Men onslaught over the next couple of years."

Dont understand english that much, but does the above sentence mean that in the future we can expect the villain onslaught to appear if so how will they manage to defeat him (unless they do a cross over with hulk,fantastic four as they and a few others were the ones that eventually defeated onlsaught i think) as he is very powerful. cheers

i think magneto will have a bigger role of course.

Originally posted by Shadow_King
i think magneto will have a bigger role of course.

I agree

The film will most likely start with him as a 12-14 year old and then work itself up to the point or age where he meets Charles Xavier.

yep your right.

I think this movie good be a great one. At the beginning of X-men you see hoe real MAgneto's world becomes . Brian Singer did such a good job. That moment in MAgneto's life triggerd his mutation. IT would be fun to see how it further manifests itself in the war. I mean A secand world war blended in An X-men storyline. It would be realistic and ther could be historical references. It could be oscar worthy. You know kind of the dram war movie with MAgneto. It just sounds so cool.

i think if BS would direct the film i think it could be good but he isnt soo its gonna be a flop.

A magneto movie doesn't sound all that interesting to me,is he even that popular with the none comic readers to warrant a spin-off-I don't think so.I'd much rather see a x-4 and possibly x-5 to expand on the x-men themselves-not wolvy or mags.