{"id":20903,"date":"2012-02-17T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T10:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=20903"},"modified":"2012-07-06T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T07:05:21","slug":"x-men-first-class-ii-is-all-about-magneto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/x-men-first-class-ii-is-all-about-magneto\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men: First Class II is all about Magneto"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"X-Men<\/a><\/p>\n

According to screenwriter Simon Kinberg (X-Men: The Last Stand<\/em>, Sherlock Holmes<\/em>), the follow-up to last year’s X-Men: First Class<\/a><\/em>, which acted as both a prequel and a soft reboot for the franchise, will continue its focus on Magneto<\/a>, played by the fantastic jawline of Michael Fassbender.<\/p>\n

“That’s what was so cool about the first one and what we want to continue,” he said, speaking to MTV<\/a>. “Magneto becomes the villain ultimately of the franchise but he’s a much more complicated character as a young man. He’s someone you sympathise with, you care about you root for even though might not necessarily agree with his methods, you understand his philosophy.<\/p>\n

“I think the truth is ultimately that because Michael is such an interesting actor, he’ll never be full-on anything,” Kinberg continued. “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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Fassbender’s Magneto gets top billing in X-Men: First Class sequel, says screenwriter Simon Kinberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":20904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2483,1587,1372],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/X-Men-First-Class-II-Magneto.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}