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A Surprise Character In 'X-Men Origins: Magneto'?
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George Roush over at Latino Review grabbed one crazy exclusive. While touring the creature effects shop for Hellboy II: The Golden Army, he spotted a photo of a familiar X-Man: Hank McCoy, aka Beast. (Non comic book nerds may remember him as Kelsey Grammar with blue fur.)It was not a drawing, but an actual photo, possibly computer generated. (Roush thinks it was an actual person in a Beast getup, though.) It was unmistakably of a young Beast, leaping through the air. And it was tagged Magneto.
Roush casually asked what the heck that was all about, and was told in a "isn't it obvious" way, "This is young Beast from the prequel they're gonna be doing. Magneto."
There's no real explanation as to what McCoy would be doing in a Magneto storyline, or how they would meet up. It is as random a choice of mutant as we're seeing with another X-Men: Origins film. I don't get it. Both Magneto and Wolverine are strong enough to stand on their own two storylines, which is why they were chosen for origin films in the first place. Is there some studio clause stipulating that they must choose a certain number of mutants to accompany the title character? It cannot be coincidence. I am willing to bet it means there will never be an X-Men 4, and that they are using these guest-star appearances to float more spin-offs. I'm probably overthinking that, and it is just a way to make more action figures.
X-Men 3 Gets Novel Treatment
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For reasons that I still can only hazard guesses at (most of the guesses would have to do with profit potential), it
is not uncommon for major movies to be released in novel -or even comic book- form before they actually reach the big
screen audience. X-Men 3 the novel is set for
release on May 16th, which beats the movie release date by about a week and a half. TrekWeb has a brief plot synopsis of the book
(and presumably therefore the movie as well) here. The novel, based on the screenplay, is
written by Chris Claremont and is approximately 350 pages.
Oh yeah, and the link provided also shows off a new image from the film showing the good Professor in a casual situation with a few of his students, if you're interested. At least, they claim it is a new picture- how anyone can keep track at this point is beyond me. I think I reached my maximum X-Men picture interest roughly sixty-one thousand and five pictures ago. But that's probably just me.
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