Magneto Movie Update
Found this story on IGN Comics.
According to Turner, the movie follows “a young Magneto. It opens up with a 14-year-old Magneto being abducted and put into Auschwitz… it’s made for a 28-, 29-year-old actor. And then it tracks on how he seeks vengeance on the Nazis who killed his parents in the camps.”
“And in the same way — a la Anakin Skywalker, Leatherface, any of these iconic characters — what was interesting for me [about Magneto] and what will be interesting for the audience is, ‘All right, now I understand why he did that thing. Does it make me love him more?’ Maybe not, but… it definitely makes me understand it more.”
They’re going for the “How did that bad guy get so bad?” angle. I love Magneto’s back story, I think its what makes him one of the better Marvel villains. But the average movie goer isn’t going to care much, unless they’ve watch the other 3 X-Men films. Like with the Star Wars movies you had fans of the movies who weren’t even born when the orginals where made. With this Magneto film you won’t have that 20 year span to gain fans. But you will have tons of comic geeks so maybe that’ll make up for it. Or perhaps I’m thinking too much.