David Goyer Will Direct 'Magneto'
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Last week I brought you a story about the busy, busy career of David Goyer. His teen supernatural thriller The Invisible hits theaters today. The Dark Knight, Jumper, Super Max, Here There Be Dragons -- all of these projects have Goyer's name attached in some capacity. Well, add another big one to the list. It has just been announced that Goyer will direct the X-Men spinoff Magneto. The first three X-Men movies grossed over a billion dollars worldwide, and as long as that cash cow is giving milk, you can bank on many more films from the X-Men family. In fact, another -- the X-Men prequel Wolverine -- will hit theaters before Magneto. Wolverine will be written by David Benioff (who wrote one of my favorite recent screenplays -- 25th Hour), and Hugh Jackman will return as the mutton-chopped mutant. A director for Wolverine should be announced very soon. Magneto will be an "origin story," and the plot, hinted at by the other X-Men films, is as follows: "Magneto comes to grips with his mutant ability to manipulate metal objects as he and his parents try to survive in Auschwitz. Magneto meets Professor Xavier when the latter is a soldier liberating the concentration camp." Sounds like some heavy subject matter for a comic book flick! Magneto will try out and shape his powers "by hunting down and killing Nazi war criminals who tortured him, and his lust for vengeance turns Xavier and Magneto into enemies." There was talk for a while that McKellen would reprise his role using the digital retro-aging techniques used in X-Men: The Last Stand, but that idea has been scrapped, and that's probably for the best. It sounds like if you want your McKellen fix, you'll have to hope they use a flashback structure, because Magneto and Professor Xavier will both be played by actors in their 20's. This doesn't leave a whole lot of exciting possibilities. I hope we don't wind up with Ashton Kutcher in a purple helmet and Seann William Scott in a bald cap.
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4-27-2007 @ 11:30AM
Darien said...
Terrible idea IMO, plus after Goyer f'd up Blade Trinity he lost all my support.
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4-27-2007 @ 11:15AM
Kevin said...
DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS! Kutcher? Scott? Somebody in LaLa land has probably already saw this and thought, "hmmm...Kutcher and Scott. What a good idea."
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4-27-2007 @ 12:49PM
Aaron Walker said...
@Darien, man did he mess up Blade Trinity! I mean bad, terrible, stomped it to death. UGh! Now I know who to blame for killing what should have been a far better film and longer lasting franchise.
On post topic. It could work with younger actors, not too much younger but younger. I do like the premise, but casting will be key. Neither of those guys llok the part.
They need to find some fresh faces with some acting chops just on the cusp of breaking big, and Kutcher and Scott aint it.
But the basic premise of the film is good. 'Cept as stated, it would kinda mess up the X-Men universe timeline (at least according to the films) if Magneto and Prof X had a falling out that early in the game.
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4-27-2007 @ 2:47PM
Kevin said...
How would it mess up the timing? I'm not a huge comic book fan, but you can read all about the X-Men history on wikipedia. Magneto and Professor X were and continue to be friends, they just chose different paths to take. They never hated each other, so I don't see how having a "falling out" in the past would screw with the movies. I also like how Patrick claims this is "heavy subject matter for a comic book". Comic books tackle this type of material all the time. Just because something has illustrations and different dialogue doesn't make it childish. You would have thought the Simpsons would have taught people that years ago.
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4-27-2007 @ 3:36PM
Emily said...
I think what Aaron was referring to was that, when Magneto and Professor X shared a vision and goal, they worked together to make Cerebro... Neither could have made it alone. If they're already at odds (even just politically) before Magneto comes into his full powers, then they would never have cooperated long enough to make such a dangerous tool/weapon.
And I wouldn't say they were "friends" after their falling out, since Magneto often threatens to kill Professors X's "kids" (and him, if he gets in the way) and that's not really something you do with friends.
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4-27-2007 @ 6:10PM
benjamin said...
To Kevin's comment, I think Patrick stated that this is "heavy subject matter for a comic book flick", which is different than just saying "heavy subject matter for a comic book."
Everyone knows by now that comic books deal with heavy issues. The point is that these issues are often lost or glossed over in their film adaptations.
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4-30-2007 @ 2:59PM
HardwareGuy said...
Dude, where's my X-Men?
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