Magneto

Cast: Ian McKellen

Director: David Goyer

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Release date: 2008

Synopsis:

Storyline will heavily involve Professor X, the wheelchair-using X-Men leader played in the films by Patrick Stewart. 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.

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