The Wolverine and Magneto thread

[The_Return]

Originally Posted by Phalanx

Well, if his own origin story comes into it as well, he'll START looking pretty normal...but yeah, if they don't fuck up his face but good, it'll actually be a pretty big "nono" for his character.

I repeat: Ryan Reynolds. Hot.

[Phalanx]

The ONLY way they could not be hated for using Reynolds actual face on a "more than first few minutes" basis, would be with the addition of the frequently-used-by-DP image inducer.
That said, I still don't think Reynolds will be seen as self that much.
His self-image/self-hatred is a huge part of the character, it would be shallow to not have it happen...

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Although he famously sat out directing X-Men: The Last Stand in favor of helming Superman Returns, Bryan Singer now says he's open to the idea of returning to the mutant movie franchise he spawned.

The Coventry Telegraph points out an interview that Singer did with Total Film where he addressed his departure from the X-Men franchise and his eagerness to rejoin it. "I'm eternally intertwined with X-Men now. What takes an audience four hours to watch -- the first two movies -- took six years of my life. So, to not be part of it... It's a shame," said Singer.

One X-Men project in-development that Singer says he would "possibly" consider directing is the Magneto prequel. "The only thing that concerns me about Magneto is that if the prequel were to follow the track I used in X-Men, which is Magneto's history in the concentration camp, then I've lived in that world," Singer explained.

But he added, "Apt Pupil, X-Men and now Valkyrie... I've lived in that Nazi universe for quite a while. I just might need to take a little break before I do something like that."

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The Dark Knight scribe David Goyer has given a quick update on the status of the Magneto origin movie to MTV News.

"They're still thinking of doing it," he explained. "They're definitely looking into doing other X-Men spinoffs."

Indeed Goyer seemed confident the project would see progress in the near future. "I've been in touch [with the studio]. I'm sure that project will move forward in the next year or so."

There's been buzz around this movie for years, with a concentration camp-set plot rumoured, along with the possible involvement of X-Men director Bryan Singer.

Other mutant movies currently in the works include a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, and a Deadpool spin-off.

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If you're holding your breath for that much talked about Magneto prequel ... well, don't.

In an interview with Empire Online, X-Men series producer Lauren Shuler Donner said, after praising David Goyer's screenplay for Magneto, "I'm not sure that film is going to be made. The studio has a wealth of potential stories, and they have to stand back and decide which ones to make. And Magneto, I think, is at the back of the queue. Maybe it'll get made in five years - who knows?"

The producer did confirm that if and when Magneto does before cameras it will star someone other than Ian McKellen in the title role. Shuler Donner said the de-aging visual effects used on McKellen for X-Men: The Last Stand are too cost prohibitive to be done for an entire film.

McKellen may appear as the elder Magneto in a few scenes, but she said another actor will be cast to play his younger incarnation.

[wufongtan.]

They should revolve all x-men movies around the greatest x-man of all time..Night crawler. Also just a Q? how come it isn't called x-people. In this day of p.c.

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Yeah, so that young Magneto movie that David Goyer was supposedly working on? It's dead.

Not that this news comes as any great surprise to anyone who has even sorta been following the development of Fox's X-Men franchise lately.

Aside from the complete and utter lack of forward momentum on the project in recent months, word came last week that Bryan Singer was returning to the franchise he started to direct X-Men: First Class, an origin/prequel tale about Marvel's band of merry mutants.

The thing is, part of that story is to involve the young Magneto and his relationship with the young Professor Xavier. That seemed to be the nail in the Magneto solo-film coffin, and now Singer has pretty much confirmed as much.

"This story would probably utilize some of the Magneto story because it deals with a young Magneto, so it might supersede that because this would explore that relationship between a young energetic professor and a disenfranchised victim of the Holocaust," the director tells The Hollywood Reporter. "But no, I don't see an exhaustion [of the franchise]. The X-Men universe is boundless. These are great characters. And as young characters, they are quite different than the characters we have seen in the contemporary movies."

Singer also says that in all likelihood his other project, Jack the Giant Killer, will go into production before First Class.

[jasonfreak]

Does anyone else think there gonna make an Xmen 4 (not origins) because at the end of the 3 Magneto gained his powers again so I think there gonna make another movie!! :)