Mon Apr 30, 2007 — by Mike Gold

Magneto Returns To Hollywood

David Goyer does li'l Magnie

Sometime following the release of the next X-Men movie – a solo Wolverine feature starring Hugh Jackson – noted comics writer (JSA) and movie producer / director / writer (Batman Begins, Blade, Ghost Rider, The Crow: City of Angels, Nick Fury, The Dark Knight, plus last week's The Invisible) David Goyer will be directing the second X-Men spin-off, Magneto.

The movie will focus on Magneto's "origin" – the time he spent in a Nazi concentration camp (as seen in both comics and the X-Men movies) and the years following his liberation. Whereas Sir Ian McKellen has gone on record saying he wanted to star in the movie and that they could "de-age" him with the sort of CGI effects used in X-Men III, it is expected he will only appear in framing sequences and another actor will play the younger character.

Perhaps Christopher Eccleston would do?

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