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.
Not exact matches
The minister of citizenship and immigration has already picked a fight this year with Amnesty International over his plan to enlist the public's help in identifying and rounding up fugitives suspected of
hiding in Canada from their alleged past behaviour as
war criminals.
A Serbian businessman accused of being a
war criminal, Sofia is drawn into a dangerous world of corruption, investigating police, hitmen and the Russian mafia — a world with links to Sofia's own
hidden past and a path of revenge she has kept
hidden until now.
There's a
criminal plot involving a monopoly on Tungsten and German investors who may be Nazi
criminals in
hiding (apart from a headline reading «German Surrenders,» there's no mention of the
war) but the drama revolves around the sexual tension and vicious punishments they inflict on one another.
I would imagine in Shadow Fall universe they'll be
war criminals on the run with VSA secretly helping them to
hide.