X-Men Origins: Magneto

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[[Media: ---- Insert non-formatted text here ---- ]]Magneto is a proposed spin-off and prequel to the X-Men Films.

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In December 2004, Twentieth Century Fox hired screenwriter Sheldon Turner to draft a spin-off X-Men film, and he chose to write Magneto, pitching it as "The Pianist meets X-Men." The script was set from 1939 to 1955, and explored the "psychological roots" of Magneto. In May 2006, Sir Ian McKellen said he would reprise the role using the computer-generated facelift applied to him in the prologue of X-Men 3: The Last Stand In April 2007, David S. Goyer was hired to direct, with the announcement actors in their twenties would play the characters. Goyer will use the script by Turner, which follows Magneto trying to survive in Auschwitz, and meeting Xavier, a soldier, during the liberation of the camp. He hunts down the Nazi war criminals that tortured him, and this lust for vengeance turns him and Xavier into enemies. Also a possible building of cerebro and formation of the team X-men. Avi Arad said it is planned for a 2011 release.