New TV spots, pics and banners and interviews from X-Men: The Last Stand are now online.
First off, director Brett Ratner has posted hi-res shots of the X3 banners that have been appearing on buses and bus-stops, among other places. Check them out here, here and here.
Also, new TV spots have been posted on YouTube. Check them out here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Meanwhile, Ian McKellen, who returns as Magneto and stars in this month's The Da Vinci Code, told Coming Soon that "I think the plot is more interesting than the previous two so it's fair to be at least as excited and Magneto gets to do an awful lot in this film which he didn't in the second so I'm very happy about it. It's not going to be a change of direction. It's not like Tim Burton suddenly coming in and doing his stuff. Brett Ratner is basically doing what Bryan [Singer] did."
Regarding the Golden Gate bridge scene: "We had the Golden Gate Bridge built in Vancouver. You didn't have to use your imagination, because there it was, but flying through the air you have to use your imagination. We were on a bit of a road and there were lights and there was a breeze. Wind was blowing in our hair and our cloaks and it felt as if we were flying a bit. So I think they just have to tell you what it's going to be like, and whether it looks convincing on the monitor as you're waving your arms around."
As for the Magneto stand-alone prequel movie, McKellen had a surprise choice for casting of the young mutant: "I'll be playing the part. [laughter] I don't know if it's in the press notes, but the first time that Patrick Stewart and I appear in [X-Men: The Last Stand], we appear to be 25 years younger than we are. That's been done by a technology never used in film before, which involves no makeup, no special effects whatsoever. We just go into the studio and do the scene as is, and then they morph our faces on to photographs of ourselves 25 years ago. Lo and behold, there we are. They can take any shaped person and they can slim you down, they can build you up, they can bring out your shoulders, change the style and color of your hair. Remove every wrinkle. They removed so many wrinkles from my face, I looked so young that [X-Men director] Brett Ratner said, 'You've got to put a few wrinkles back. It's looking ridiculous.' It would mean that I could play myself at 25, feasibly, as long as I can keep myself lithe and sounding young. I mean, that's the big story of this movie is once the stars realize that they don't have to have facelifts anymore, at least as far as their work is concerned, Meryl [Streep] and I can go on playing Romeo and Juliet for the next 20 or 30 years. It's astonishing. It's like airbrushing, but for the moving picture."
You can read the rest of the interview here.
And, you can see McKellen as Magneto in this clip from KTLA TV.
Finally, some new images are hidden as Easter eggs on the official movie Web site. You can get to them by typing in "Danger Room," "Xjet" and "Magnetism." A Wolverine wallpaper can be found by typing in "adamantium," according to Superhero Hype.
