Magneto voted No. 1 Comic Book Villain

A recent poll over at IGN voted Magneto as the greatest comic book villain of all time. A full list of the top 100 comic book villains can be found here!

IGN gives its reasons for choosing Magneto as being:

"Magneto has become bigger than his peers and virtually all of his enemies. It's the sign of a great character when his presence dominates a story and his absence creates a vacuum that cannot be filled by any other. Through his legendary role in Marvel Comics over the years as well as fantastic portrayals in film and animation, it's hard to argue that there has ever been a villain more complex, nuanced, sympathetic and yet irrevocably evil."

Magneto gets a new director?

If updates on Internet Movie Database are to be believed then David Goyer is being replaced by James McTeigue (director of V for Vendetta, and assistant director on the Matrix Trilogy).

If this is true then expect another script rewrite since the previous script, a reworking of Sheldon Turner's original by David Goyer, bears a little bit too much resemblance to that of the latest Wolverine movie.

Professor X and Magneto Team Up?

Well, they do on stage at least!

Currently appearing in Waiting for Godot at the Theatre Royal in London as the ill fated tramps Vladimir (Patrick Stewart) and Estragon (Ian McKellen) and gaining rave reviews while doing so...

Let's hope we see them together again in an X-Men movie soon!

Magneto movie about to be given the green light?

Director David S. Goyer, talking to Superhero Hype! last December admitted that that the spin-off of the X-Men series was put on hold until the studio could see how X-Men Origins: Wolverine did.

The co-writer of Batman Begins hinted that the script was finished at this point:

"I think they like the script and they're just waiting to see what happens with Wolverine. I don't think they would consider moving forward until the movie comes out."

Directed and penned by David S. Goyer, the Magneto movie is said to detail the story of a young Magneto who seeks revenge on the Nazis who killed his family while befriending a young Charles Xavier (Professor X of the X-Men).

With Wolverine bringing in $87 million in it's opening weekend it is likely that the Magneto movie will soon officially be given a green light!

Magneto Catch Up!

Magneto (alias Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, born Max Eisenhardt) is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in X-Men #1 (Sept. 1963), and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.

A powerful mutant with the ability to generate and control electromagnetic forces, Magneto has been the X-Men's most prominent enemy ever since his first appearance. In his early appearances, his motives were bent on megalomania, but writers have since fleshed out his character and origin, revealing him to be a Jewish Holocaust survivor whose actions are driven by the purpose of protecting the mutant race from suffering a similar fate. His role in comics have varied from supervillain to anti-hero to even hero. Sir Ian McKellen portrayed Magneto throughout the entire X-Men film series.