I must be the only fanboy out there who wasn’t/is enamored with Magneto as the villain for all three “X-Men” films. I found the fact that the most dangerous mutant in the world is an frail old man with white hair to be more than a little silly. But apparently I am the only person who thought this, because Variety reports that 20th Century Fox, the studio behind all the “X-Men” films, has tapped comic book go-to guy David Goyer (the “Blade” films, “Batman Begins”) to direct the Magneto movie. The film won’t go into production until the Wolverine movie starring Hugh Jackman.
One presumes Ian McKellen will play the old (current) Magneto, while they’ll have to get a younger man to play Magneto back when he was a boy in a Nazi concentration camp. The movie would probably follow Magneto as he hunts Nazi war criminals as a young man. No idea if he’ll meet up with Professor Xavier (played by Patrick Stewart), the would-be leader of the X-Men. Magneto and Xavier were best friends who split when they developed different ideas for mutants and humankind — Magneto wanted to rule over them, but Xavier wanted to live peacefully alongside them.
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