The XMFC sequel!
Feb. 18th, 2012 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatSimon Kinberg talked about his plans for the XMFC sequel: link.
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Yet for some reason, 9 reporters out 10 immediately assumed that the next movie would be all Magneto centric. Where DID Kinberg say that? He talked about Erik and Charles, then he talked about Michael Fassbender and Magneto but nowhere did he say that the movie would be solely about Magneto. And yet, everybody immediately went up in arms about how every other character would be neglected. Boggles the mind, seriously.
In the meantime, I'm basking in the beauty of the part I underlined, "Michael Fassbender's Magneto and his relationship with James McAvoy's Charles X. Xavier will take on more prominence in the follow-up." Yes, it should've been Charles F. Xavier, but whatever. More focus on Charles and Erik, I'm ALL for it. It was the best thing about XMFC, the friendship between them, and James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender's chemistry is... off the charts!
Screenwriter Simon Kinberg is working with Matthew Vaughn over the next few months on the much anticipated sequel to last year's "X-Men: First Class" and reveals to MTV News that Michael Fassbender's Magneto and his relationship with James McAvoy's Charles X. Xavier will take on more prominence in the follow-up.
"That’s what was so cool about the first one and what we want to continue. Magneto becomes the villain ultimately of the franchise but he’s a much more complicated character as a young man. He’s someone you sympathize with, you care about you root for even though might not necessarily agree with his methods, you understand his philosophy" says Kinberg.
In terms of turning Magneto into more of an outright villain, Kinberg says "We’re still figuring that out. I think the truth is ultimately that because Michael [Fassbender] is such an interesting actor, he’ll never be full-on anything. He’ll have a villainous side and he’ll have a sympathetic human side you’ll be able to relate but you’ll also be afraid of him. He becomes Magneto, he says ‘Call me Magneto’ at the end of the first movie."
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"I'm a huge X-Men fan. I grew up loving the comic books and it was really exciting to be able to do the origin story of Xavier and Magneto, and getting those two actors, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, were really amazing. So being able to explore those characters with actors of that quality will be exciting a second time around, and doing some things unexpected with those characters, which is the plan. link
Yet for some reason, 9 reporters out 10 immediately assumed that the next movie would be all Magneto centric. Where DID Kinberg say that? He talked about Erik and Charles, then he talked about Michael Fassbender and Magneto but nowhere did he say that the movie would be solely about Magneto. And yet, everybody immediately went up in arms about how every other character would be neglected. Boggles the mind, seriously.
In the meantime, I'm basking in the beauty of the part I underlined, "Michael Fassbender's Magneto and his relationship with James McAvoy's Charles X. Xavier will take on more prominence in the follow-up." Yes, it should've been Charles F. Xavier, but whatever. More focus on Charles and Erik, I'm ALL for it. It was the best thing about XMFC, the friendship between them, and James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender's chemistry is... off the charts!
