Now they're making a MAGNETO X-Men spinoff/prequel WTF???

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http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=7568

Turner Writing Magneto X-Men Spin-Off

20th Century Fox has set Sheldon Turner (The Longest Yard) to write Magneto, an action-thriller based on the villainous character played in the first two "X-Men" films by Ian McKellen, reports Variety.

The project 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.

The studio is developing the spin-offs as they separately develop X-Men 3. Simon Kinberg is writing the third installment. Magneto will likely be produced by the "X-Men" duo of Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel Studios' Avi Arad.

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. Since the character will be seen almost exclusively in his formative years, it is not clear whether McKellen will be in the film at all, says the trade.

"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," Turner said.

The storyline will heavily involve Professor X (played by Patrick Stewart in the films). 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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This is a dumb idea in my opinion. They should make a Gambit or New Mutants/Generation X or Original X-Men team prequel movie before they make a movie about young Magneto. Xavier wasn't even old enough to be a WW2 veteran in the original comics in the 60's BEFORE 40+ years of comics and stories.

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1. Xavier COULD have been a WW2 vet in 1962.

Since he would have been in his mid to late thirties when he founded the X-men in 1962, it would have put him at just about the right age to have served in the last two years of WW2 without it being unbelievable.

Now however, it becomes highly improbably except of course through de-aging and Shi'ar clones.

And a Gambit movie? Ugh! Ugh, I say! Gambit is probably my second least favorite X-man of all time, with Wolverine being the one I hate the most due his remarkable ability to star in all X-books and solo and the Avengers simultaneously.

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3. No, he wasn't. he was a Korean war vet in the comics

Who serverd in Korea when he was 17 for one tour.

and Magneto was a kid, like 12-13 during world war 2. In Puberty, his mutant powers emerged at the very end of the war.

Xavier was probably in his VERY early 30's when he founded the team, just after finishing all his graduate education. He appeared older because he was always bald, but he went bald I think when he was a teenager. He's only like 15 years older than Cyclops, Beast, Angel, and Storm.

And I don't get a hating of Wolvie and Gambit. I started reading the comics in elementary school just a couple years after Gambit joined the team and I always really liked him. He's not my favorite X-Man, but for all sorts of reasons I think he could star in a movie.

If you hate Wolvie for being in a bunch of comics at the same time, you must REALLY hate Spider-Man, who by ways I have no idea of explaining regularly stars in 4 comics a month, WITHOUT a team to star with.

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7. Thank you for the history lesson....however

I have been reading the X-Men since the mid-70's (and finally gave up on them in the late 90's).

I didn't say HE DID SERVE in WW2. I said he COULD HAVE (if he was in his mid to late 30's when he was introduced in 1962) without it being totally unbelievable or relying on any bad de-aging tricks. At this point, I don't think we can make any assumptions about anyone's age. Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were both originally written as WW2 vets (and that was later changed as well) and I never assumed there was a huge age difference between them and Charles. As time went on, trying to pin any character to any specific war became that much more illogical.

And no, I am not a big Spidey fan either. I read Ultimate Spiderman because it's not bogged down with 40 years of writing, but the 616 universe characters are in dire need of a reboot. I think anytime they start spread the same character across multiple books like that, they run the risk of the character being overexposed and people trying to explain how character x could have been in two and sometimes four places at the same time (which happens WAY too often).

Gambit was interesting for a brief while, but I don't really care for the character anymore. Not sure any of the current x-folk can make for a decent movie.

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9. Yeah, I think Ben, Reed, and Xavier are all the same age about

cause I know for a fact that Reed Richards was in his early 30's when the FF started, and I think that's what Xavier was when his comic started 2 real world years later.

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2. I think it sounds very interesting

I didn't read the comic books but I was fascinated about magneto's past in a concentration camp and tying that to how he became the bad guy. It could be a great movie if they do it in a serious way.

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4. Well my gripe from being a fan of the X-Men comics, and ONLY the X-Men

comics, including their spinoffs like Generation X, X-Factor, etc. is that there are so many awsome stories that could come out of the books that should be adapted for a movie, and not just a piecing together of random things that Xavier and Magneto have flashed back too yet never even warrented a comic in itself.

I'd LOVE for them to have done a prequel of the founding original X-Men team, with teenage Cyclops, Jean, Beast, Angel, and a little kid Iceman, and their first mission/story arch involving a younger Magneto. It's one of the reason I think they should have cast 40-ish year olds for both Professor X and Magneto and just used aging makeup on them. Billy Zane would have been PERFECT for Professor X.

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5. I have had it up to here with all these PREQUELS!

UP. TO. HERE.

Star Wars, Batman, Star Trek, now X-Men...

WHERE DOES IT END? AHHHHHHHH!!!! :nuke:

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6. hmm, "Titantic: The Building of the Ship!"

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8. You know it's coming!

Haha