Gavin Hood Interested in X-Men Origins: Magneto

Someone like Ridley Scott would be a great director for Magneto, even though I don't really think a movie about him is necessary. He's known for his period pieces, but can also make great sci-fi (Alien) and action/drama movies (Body of Lies)

And yeah, I'd rather see Snyder with Wolvie 2.

It can't be Snyder. Snyder does things frame by frame from the books. The way the movie-verse is set up that can't work.

If he had been on the project to begin with yes. But he wasn't and therefore doesn't fit.

Sinister! Apocalypse! No Magneto!!!

@ InTylerWeTrust

I like your idea of Ridley Scott, he would do a great job as Alien was brilliant

And I know where you are coming from when you mean Magneto should not really be made. I used to think that way too but I thought it would be great if they combined Magneto and Xavier's origins and make a movie that leads right up to the original teams of X-Men and Brotherhood being assembled and then First Class can lead on from there. But first, I would love to see a good Wolverine 2, X4 & X5 before the original actors get too old for their roles and then they could make the Days of future past movies as the actors being too old would suit the characters being old and THEN the prequels should be made

@ Bijous

And hell yea for Sinister and Apoclaypse, I would only want to see Magneto as a villain one more time in a prequel to show the first battle between the X-Men and the original Brotherhood from the comics

APOCALYPSE is okay but isn't he pretty much just a generic version of DARKSEID??

Bijous, I have to disagree and agree with you, with respect of course. I love Magneto as a villain, I think he's one of the best Marvel sorta-evil villain. However, I agree that Apocalypse should get the spotlight in one of the X-films. I've always thoght that they should put him against Magneto and Xavier in the Magneto Origin film. Sort of "an ultimate battle" senario.

Yes, please Gavin, Screw up another character from the Xmen universe

i downloaded Wolverine and I have to say I actually liked it this time around. When I saw it in theaters I was a little narrow minded about it but I think it was an overall good job. Beside the fact that Deadpool is like Sylar basically.

I dont really care who directs it, as long as Brett Ratner never touches another comic book movie again. I wanna kill that piece of shit. He makes movies to piss people off and thats it. He should have directed GI Joe and then that would have been truely garbage

Thanx SdProphet!

Apocolypse has no substance as a character, Magneto is more complex and infinatly more interesting. he's a mutant before the world knows about mutants an intelligent and powerful one at that.

The Magneto origins is probably more suited to gavin hood's style than an all out action movie.

if it's made correctly this could be such an amazing film. but if it's full of random x-men cameos they'll destroy it

@Robsaggs: I'm tired of the current CBM movies because they try too hard for "substance." Am I the only one who wants action? I mean, we're talking about superheroes here! I want fights, explosions, laser beams!!!!

...and a good story, of course.

XMOW was nice directed. the overall story was more faithfull to the comics than the x-trilogy

Cool but unnecessary. Magneto is a deep, complex character but I dont see him carrying a movie in the same way others could. One of the biggest reason is that he is a villian, and whenever they make a movie about a villian, they want you to sympathize with him. Thats great and all, but it takes away from the darkness of the character. I doubt they will show magneto doing evil deeds like massacring innocent humans in the name of human progress. Likely, they will show him as the victim, and by the end, you will want to kill all humans to along with him. That takes away the 'badguy factor.' Still, it definately has the potential to be an interesting movie.

@Robsaggs. Apocalypse is one of the most interesting and complex villains the X-Men faced. He is near immortal, the "First Mutant". He believes in Social Darwinism. He has an unusual sense of honor that surprises many. And he looks cool as hell.


-Michael Clark Duncan


But most imortantly, he was responsible for the birth of the greatest Marvel comics villain of all time, Mister Sinister.

Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)

-Keith David or Jason Isaacs


Miss Sinister

-Carla Guigo

@TheHawk: Hell, yeah, bro!

@Swift: Yeah, and in X2, but just barely. Still, he never gets featured in the comics and he was barely in the X-Men movies, yet he's one of their most powerful members.

@Imran: Next you'll be saying that the young Magneto made Cap's first shield for him out of metal scraps...

I also think that Magneto shouldn't have a movie. Let's move on with X-4!!! Michael Clark Duncan for Apocalypse, Keith David for Mr. Sinister and Michael Biehn as Cable!!!