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November 11, 2008


Purported plot details have emerged about director David Goyer and 20th Century Fox's X-Men prequel Magneto. The project follows the formative years of Erik Lensherr, the World War II concentration camp survivor who would later found and lead the Brotherhood of Mutants in an ongoing campaign against homo sapiens.

The Coventry Telegraph points out a Magneto plot synopsis originally posted at Production Weekly: "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."

The Telegraph's reporter said that the Magneto script he read differed from this new synopsis in that it had Charles Xavier "working in Israel at a hospital where he helped war survivors from both sides to recover and rehabilitate." This storyline is in keeping with Uncanny X-Men #161, a flashback issue that revealed the origins of Xavier and Magneto's friendship.

At a hospital for recovering Holocaust victims in Haifa, Israel, an ambulatory Charles Xavier discusses a potential evolution in man and the world's reaction to such a discovery. The early seeds of the philosophical battle between Professor X and Magneto are sown in a very frank discussion that precludes an encounter with HYDRA. The two essentially come out to one another and while Charles is foolish enough to believe he has discovered a new ally for the future, Magnus knows too well that their lives are taking separate paths.