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Fassbender - best known for starring in Steve McQueen's films, Shame, Hunger and 12 Years A Slave as well as playing Magneto in the new X-Men films - admitted it took time to adjust to working with the giant head.

Actor Michael Fassbender is in early negotiations to play Magneto in «X-Men: First class.»

He appears to have played Magneto so many times (and he will a fourth - time next year in Dark Phoenix) that he's forgotten how to choose good roles.

Not exact matches

McKellen says he's an avowed fan of Gambon's performance, who he says played Dumbledore «gloriously» and anyway, that would have made Sir Ian both Gandalf and Magneto and Dumbledore and Sherlock Holmes AND Cogsworth, and that's just a few too many iconic roles for one man.

And Fassbender is reliably fabulous, fully inhabiting Magneto's arrogance and ambivalence (it's a compliment to say that as played the character might convincingly age into Ian McKellen).

The X-Men's most consistent foe is Magneto, who plays a kind of Malcolm X to Professor Xavier's Martin Luther King Jr..

James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender will once again play the younger versions of Professor X and Magneto in Apocalypse, as they did in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

And I won't disclose the identity of the longtime X-Men nemesis (no, not Magneto) who plays a significant role.

The clarity with which Singer and Co. are able to track the various storylines — Wolverine and the kids, Storm and Nightcrawler, Professor X and Jason / Stryker, Magneto and Mystique — is impeccable, and each storyline gets enough screentime to play through a full and fulfilling arc while not overstaying its welcome.

The pair join a cast that already includes James MacAvoy and Michael Fassbender as Professor X and Magneto and young mutants played by Nicholas Hoult, Caleb Landry Jones and Alice Eve.

It did, however, give McKellen a boost in his mid-fifties, if largely only because the film was seen and enjoyed by Bryan Singer, who cast the Brit to play a Nazi war criminal hiding in 1980s America in the Stephen King adaptation Apt Pupil and then as Magneto in X-Men, a role that raised his profile, which could only have helped Peter Jackson employ him as Gandalf.

Plot holes be damned, the film will include a time travel story, in order to bring together the bulk of the franchises hero's, including Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), James McAvoy (Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), newcomer Peter Dinklage, who will play villain Bolivar Trask, and many, many more.

Wolverine's first job is to find and reunite the younger versions of Professor Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender).

Playing the idealistic Professor Charles Xavier and the tragic Magneto, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender continue to stand out in this series respectively but their relationship here feels very repetitive, as if neither character is growing.

Professor Xavier's darker side will play a role in X-Men: Dark Phoenix - does that mean we can expect him and Magneto to go full Onslaught?

They've already been extraordinarily lucky in their blockbuster dabbling: Fassbender playing a younger Magneto in the resuscitation of the X-Men series and Cotillard working repeatedly with Christopher Nolan.

But at least Erik / Magneto, as played by Michael Fassbender, is, well, magnetic.

Wizard Gandalf the Grey (played by Magneto, I mean Ian McKellen) leaves the company early on as there is trouble elsewhere and he must confront an old evil.

Also seen at the event which took place at the Jacob Javits Center were James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, who play the younger versions of Professor X and Magneto in the movie respectively; Famke Janssen, who has an uncredited role as Jean Grey; James Marsden who plays the uncredited role of Scott Summers; and Bingbing Fan who starred as Blink.

Ian McKellen (Cogsworth): He played Gandalf in the «Lord of the Rings» movies and Magneto in the «X-Men» movies.

This reboot / prequel to the first three X-Men films really helped re-establish the X-Men brand, by throwing them back into the sixties, and recasting the main duo of Professor X and Magneto with James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, with Mystique played by Jennifer Lawrence.

Who would you like to see play a young Magneto?

Regardless of who she's playing, Jessica Chastain joins a cast that includes X-Men franchise stars such as James McAvoy (Professor Xavier), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Tye Sheridan (Cyclops), Kodi Smit - McPhee (Nightcrawler), Alexandra Shipp (Storm), Evan Peters (Quicksilver).

That means we have a two - year gap for another Wolverine story to be told between when he accepts that he's a «soldier» at the end of The Wolverine and jets off with his new partner Yukio to be a hero, and when he's re-recruited by Magneto & Prof X. There's also another 4 - 6 years between that mid-credits scene and the state of the world we saw in the X-Men: Days of Future Past footage played at Comic - Con, where another story could be told.

James McAvoy (Professor X), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Sophie Turner (Jean Grey), Alexandra Shipp (Storm), Tye Sheridan (Cyclops), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Evan Peters (Quicksilver), and Kodi Smit - McPhee (Nightcrawler) are all back in the 1990s - set story, with Jessica Chastain on - board playing a character that has yet to be revealed.

The seventh instalment of the Marvel franchise, due out in the US on May 23, brings back two - time X-Men director Bryan Singer, as the younger selves of X-Men Professor Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) join forces with their older selves (Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen) to fight species across two time periods.

I don't feel the spark or passion for these characters anymore from Singer, and the ongoing tension between Xavier and Magneto is starting to feel a little played out.

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Either way, you played as one of 6 X-men (Cyclops, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Dazzler, Storm, Colossus) working to defeat Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil.

You could play as a really nice range of X-Men — Beast, Cyclops, Wolverine, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Gambit, and (after first defeating him) Magneto.

That's for sure some bittersweet news as I love to play as Wolverine, Magneto, and Cyclops... and mutants were a HUGE part of 2 and 3!