I had once mentioned Production Weekly on this blog about XMen 4. Today, the “secret trade magazine” as MTV Splashpage calls it (really more of boring list of what’s up in production in the week), mentions the synospsis for XMen Origins: Magneto. David Bentley of Telegraph.uk caught it and here’s what he had to say:
Here is the official synopsis for the movie, as listed by subscription trade mag Production Weekly…
“The original X-Men film began with a prologue that showed the character as a child being led to a concentration camp by Nazis and that is the period in which the Magneto film will take place. This setup will allow a future villain to at least flirt with the designation of protagonist since the character will be seen almost exclusively in his formative years.”
This essentially means that the young Magneto is a hero who battles the Nazis.
The synopsis continues: “The storyline will heavily involve Professor X, the wheelchair-using X-Men leader. That character was a soldier in the allied force that liberated the concentration camps. The professor meets Magneto after the war and while they bond over the realisation that they are alike in their special powers, their differences soon turn them into enemies.”
The screenplay I saw didn’t include Xavier (played by Patrick Stewart in the X-Men films) as a member of the Allied Forces; he was working in Israel at a hospital where he helped war survivors from both sides to recover and rehabilitate.
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