Sequels Goyer on Magneto - Budget and Locations

[the a1ant]

Sounds great... Argentina is a great choice because...

Spoiler

many Nazi scientists and war criminals fled there after the end of the Second World War, attracted by the similarities of its military government, and a lot of Nazi loot (art treasures, gems and gold) ended up there. That's obviously where Magneto would go to destroy those who destroyed his family. The relocation programme for getting Nazis to South America is now known to have been co-ordinated by Eva Peron ('Evita')
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,871653,00.html
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040130.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/EvitaNazis.html

Seriously? Consider me shocked. Thanks for the info

 

[Kanon]

that's not proved.

True, Evita's role is not confirmed, but we are pretty sure many nazis ended up here... I remember a couple of years ago that something (a little shack, I think) made from scrap, had part of a nazi sub... It was found on one of the provinces of the south.

 

[Doctor of Doom]

Sounds great, hope this movie gets made.

 

[Retroman]

This is much further along than i thought. Now comes the hard part...casting. McKellen and Stewart are tough shoes to fill.

I hope McKellen and/or Stewart make appearances in this movie.

Me too and i'd love to see Ray Park and Rebecca Romijn return as well.

And knowing how big a comic book fan Goyer is, we'll probably get some characters from the x-men books that we haven't seen in the movies too.Hopefully incl. Erik's kids.

Sounds great... Argentina is a great choice because...

Spoiler

many Nazi scientists and war criminals fled there after the end of the Second World War, attracted by the similarities of its military government, and a lot of Nazi loot (art treasures, gems and gold) ended up there. That's obviously where Magneto would go to destroy those who destroyed his family. The relocation programme for getting Nazis to South America is now known to have been co-ordinated by Eva Peron ('Evita')
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,871653,00.html
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040130.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/EvitaNazis.html

Thanks, thats very interesting.

 

[Angamb]

imagine these spin-offs end being better than x3.... hahaha. don't know why, but I think this is how it would... certainly they seem to cast better people for these two movies than with X3...

 

[Sun_Down]

Cool, I'd really like to see Xavier and Magneto's parting ways as they form their respective teams. Maybe they could include the twins as well and explain why they weren't around for the X-Men films.

 

[Retroman]

Wonder what kind of budget Fox will be willing to give Goyer?

 

[flavio_lebeau]

Cool, I'd really like to see Xavier and Magneto's parting ways as they form their respective teams. Maybe they could include the twins as well and explain why they weren't around for the X-Men films.

If they include them parting ways, they have to have Stewart and Mckellen on the movie to play this, since they were still frinds as showed by X3. Unless they don't care about continuity.

 

[Angamb]

In some form, I'd preffer not seeing any of the x-men trilogy characters. Only Magneto.... and the young version...

 

[Sun_Down]

If they include them parting ways, they have to have Stewart and Mckellen on the movie to play this, since they were still frinds as showed by X3. Unless they don't care about continuity.

I know McKellen *jokingly* referred to playing Magneto in the spin-off using the de-aging technology they used in X3, so maybe he'd do it if offered. Or they could just have the events of the film end when Magneto and Charles were 30ish and just have younger actors playing the parts.

 

[Hellion]

Great news that this project is proceeding. Sounds like it should be called X-Men: Origins rather than Magneto.

Thinking the same...

 

[Retroman]

New location....

New flick based on McClellan exposé?

By JEFFREY RESSNER | 6/4/08 4:30 AM EST

Imagine this scene: “Quiet on the set!” shouts the assistant director as doughy actor Jonah Hill tugs uncomfortably on the Brooks Brothers suit he’s wearing to portray Scott McClellan. It’s the first day of shooting on “What Happened,” a big-screen adaptation of the former Bush press secretary’s best-selling exposé, and Hill is being directed by Judd Apatow, who turned the tell-all into a raunchy White House coming-of-age story co-starring Seth Rogan as Vice President Cheney and Michael Cera as President Bush.

OK, so maybe that’s not going to happen. But buzz is already beginning to build about a possible docudrama based on the controversial book.

“We’ve been talking to TV people, and interest is starting to come, but it’s too early to say anything,” says McClellan’s literary agent, Craig Wiley, who is also in charge of fielding offers for the book’s ancillary rights.

Should the book be sold to a studio or a TV network, it would mark the sixth project about the Bush presidency that’s currently in development or being shot. Others include Oliver Stone’s “W,” now filming in Shreveport, La.; “Fair Game,” adapted from the book by outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, with “Bourne Identity” director Doug Liman and actress Nicole Kidman attached; “Against All Enemies,” based on counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke’s memoir (but currently on hold); an untitled documentary by Michael Moore, following up his record-breaking “Fahrenheit 9/11”; and a French documentary, “Being W,” which was promoted at the recent Cannes Film Festival with a poster of Bush in clown makeup balancing the planet on his fingertip.

“It’s possible, down the road, that we might do something on the Bush administration,” says HBO Films Senior Vice President Len Amato, who also served as an executive producer on the pay channel’s recent “Recount,” about the acrimonious presidential battle between Bush and former Vice President Al Gore. “Recount” came out eight years after the 2000 election, and Amato says distance can be helpful when weighing the impact of a project taken from the headlines.

“As events are unfolding, it’s like trying to hit a moving target,” Amato says, adding that “it helps to get a little perspective” when filmmakers decide to tackle topical material.

Few recent presidents have drawn Hollywood’s interest like Bush has. His predecessor, Bill Clinton, was never the subject of a docudrama biopic, nor was the president’s father, George H.W. Bush. Ronald Reagan became the lead character in two telefilms: a 2003 CBS biopic that was assailed by conservatives and wound up playing on the network’s sister cable channel Showtime, and a 2001 made-for-Showtime film called “The Day Reagan Was Shot.”

Of course, there have been numerous projects about Richard Nixon, ranging from the 1989 TV movie “The Final Days” and Stone’s big-budget “Nixon” to more unusual endeavors including the 1999 teen comedy “Dick” and the 1984 one-man show “Secret Honor.”

The possibility of more new films about the Bush years will likely be tied to the success or failure of Stone’s biopic, which expects to shoot through July and is tentatively set to premiere Oct. 17, before the presidential elections. Described by its director as a “tragicomedy ... in the vein of ‘Network’ or ‘Dr. Strangelove,’” the film stars Josh Brolin and centers on the president’s Iraq incursion and his troubled relationship with his father.

One film whose future will be closely tied to the fate of Stone’s movie is “Against All Enemies,” an adaptation of Clarke’s best-seller about his frustration with the government’s pursuit of Al Qaeda leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. Despite a strong script penned by “Zodiac” screenwriter James Vanderbilt, the project has been mired in an on-again, off-again limbo for several years.

Two years ago, after winning the Academy Award for “Crash,” director Paul Haggis was hired to direct the film at Sony’s Columbia Pictures. According to a source close to the project, Haggis met with Clarke, worked with Vanderbilt to revise the script, formulated a budget and hired a production designer to work on sets. Things were moving along, and negotiations were taking place with Sean Penn to play Clarke, when suddenly another political film starring the actor opened and flopped.

“When Sony’s ‘All the King’s Men’ was released, its failure at the box office unsettled the studio execs, who decided we had to cut the budget in half,” says the source. Haggis walked away, and a few months later Robert Redford came on board as director, with rumors of Bruce Willis taking a starring role. But the slashed budget continued to cause problems. Sony dropped the project, and producers now say the film is “on hold” while they seek new backing.


Klieg Lights, Big City

If you were in Washington last month, you might have caught Ben Stiller and others shooting “Night at the Museum 2” at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. But if you missed all the excitement, fear not: More than a half-dozen other productions, starring actors ranging from Leonardo DiCaprio to Liam Neeson, have “expressed interest” in shooting in D.C. over the next year.

Though the city’s Office of Motion Picture and TV Development has no firm word on the exact locations, street closures, etc., for future films, work on permitting the projects is ongoing, says Crystal Palmer the office's director.

Among those seeking city approvals: “Our Brand Is Crisis,” a feature based on the documentary about James Carville’s work planning a political campaign in South America; “W,” the Stone biopic about Bush; “Lincoln,” the Steven Spielberg adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book about the 16th president; “Transformers 2,” a sequel to last summer’s robotic blockbuster; “Farragut North,” tentatively starring DiCaprio, directed by George Clooney and based loosely on Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign;“X-Men Origins: Magneto,” a prequel to the superhero series focusing on the villain who can bend metal with his mind; and “First Man,” a look at what happens to a power couple once the wife decides to run for president.

Sound familiar?

SOURCE:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10807.html

Wonder what Magneto could be doing in DC? And if they are aiming to shoot this year then that means we should be getting some kind of announcement soon right?

 

[ChaoticPsylocke]

cool, its about time we got some news!

 

[FaT_tONle]

I thought this was a Magneto movie? Why would it be an X-Men origin film? I thought that was reserved for the Zak Penn script and another movie entirely.

 

[X-Maniac]

I thought this was a Magneto movie? Why would it be an X-Men origin film? I thought that was reserved for the Zak Penn script and another movie entirely.

I would imagine the Magneto movie shows Magneto's bitterness festering, his meeting Xavier and their falling out. That would be enough to cover in that film.

A Young X-Men origins movie would then show the early years of Xavier's school prior to X1, with some new and familiar faces. I don't know what its dramatic core would be, there would need to be some key event, some key revelation to drive the story.

 

[FaT_tONle]

I would imagine the Magneto movie shows Magneto's bitterness festering, his meeting Xavier and their falling out. That would be enough to cover in that film.

A Young X-Men origins movie would then show the early years of Xavier's school prior to X1, with some new and familiar faces. I don't know what its dramatic core would be, there would need to be some key event, some key revelation to drive the story.

So is that what we are getting or are we getting the double feature in under two hours Fox style?

As for the revelations:

Magneto: WW2, Nazis, Cerebro, Xavier's school, fallout, Brotherhood establishment should carry the film.

Young X-Men movie: No way they should use Magneto as the villain again. This film should center around Cyclops and Jean Grey and the mind blocks. Magneto shouldn't be involved because technically the fall out happened already hence Lensher and Xavier shouldn't be arguing over Jean Grey again. I seriously would recommend the Hellfire club. Pheonix story done right. End it with the mind blocks. If they get it right Fox would seriously ammend my hate for X-3.

 

[X-Maniac]

So is that what we are getting or are we getting the double feature in under two hours Fox style?

As for the revelations:

Magneto: WW2, Nazis, Cerebro, Xavier's school, fallout, Brotherhood establishment should carry the film.

Young X-Men movie: No way they should use Magneto as the villain again. This film should center around Cyclops and Jean Grey and the mind blocks. Magneto shouldn't be involved because technically the fall out happened already hence Lensher and Xavier shouldn't be arguing over Jean Grey again. I seriously would recommend the Hellfire club. Pheonix story done right. End it with the mind blocks. If they get it right Fox would seriously ammend my hate for X-3.

Sounds about right. One of the films should also cover Xavier's accident that caused his disability, that could be a dramatic thrust as well.

 

[Electrix]

With the release of The Dark Knight Goyer may give us an update on Magneto...hopefully.

 

[Angamb]

yes, let's hope.

 

[Electrix]

As far as the Magneto prequel that Goyer has been attached to write and direct for 20th Century Fox, he hopes to start that in the next year or so, but he'll be finishing up Unborn and working on his take of The Invisible Man first, although because of his love of comics, he expects to always be doing something with the genre.

As far as Goyer's take on the classic Universal horror character, "It's sort of like a direct sequel. It takes place in the year 1900 and Scotland Yard catches him and forces him to become a secret agent." He hopes to direct that one as well, which might take the place of Magneto if it happens sooner.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/featuresnews.php?id=7478

 

[Angamb]

"start that in the next year" what means?

start preproduction? or start shooting?

 

[Electrix]

They have been busy writing the script for a while now. It will most likely be pre-production where they start looking for locations and cast etc

 

[Angamb]

and then, when they will shoot?......2010???

This movie was announce years ago!

anyway.

 

[Electrix]

IESB: You're not just a writer, you're a director, do you know what's going next for you right now?

DG: I think, in terms of what's next, I am also attached to Magneto, that's a possibility over at Fox. I am also writing a new version of The Invisible Man for Universal and if, well, that could be next but it's hard to know.

IESB: On the Magneto side, does a lot depend on how Wolverine ends up looking? Do you think they will movie forward before Wolverine opens next year?

DG: I don't know, I know initially there was some talk about Magneto going forward and then ultimately they decided to do Wolverine first and because of the strike and what not they decided to wait until Wolverine finished filming which just finished, and right now I am still in post on the movie I just did for Universal “The Unborn” so I am not really sure until November, so I imagine some time in the next month or two I'll be talking to Fox about it, but I don't know, The Invisible Man or Magneto are probably the front runners.

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5228&Itemid=99

 

[Angamb]

interesting.

I think Fox will wait to general audience reaction to Wolverine next year.

So his next proyect probably will be Invinsible man.