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Collider just posted the following:
Frosty here. Imagine my surprise when I opened my emails this morning. It seems that one of the readers of Collider has read the new David Goyer “Magneto” script and decided to send me their thoughts. And while he’s someone that I haven’t dealt with in the past so I don't know how much to trust him, he’s written a mostly spoiler free look at the script and I think it’s good enough to post.
And as I always say at the top of any script review…
After a long time debating, I’ve finally decided to start allowing people to contribute script reviews to Collider. The problem I’ve always had with script reviews is that the film that’s on the page is almost never what we finally see on screen. As everyone knows, so many things get altered in the creative process that it’s just not fair to judge a movie on a script that may or may not be the version they use to film with. That’s why the script reviews that run on the site will always have this intro… something to remind you that the review might not be the final shooting script.
And now… here’s Fidel!
Reviewed by Fidel from Hialeah, Florida
X-Menfans will have to clammer for the Magneto film until 2009. Lucky for all of you, I’m here, I’ve read the script and I’m ready to drop knowledge on you.
Be warned… This is a dark ride.
The Story
Remember that part in the X-Men movie when they glossed over Magneto’s discovery of his mutant gift in the concentration camp? There’s no glossing over it in the script for the Magneto prequel. This story begins and ends at Auschwitz, the defining moment in Erik Lehnsherr’s life. What happens in the middle? The origins of a conflicted comic book villain, that’s what.
Let’s face it, in present day continuity, Magneto is a terrorist. Both his fear over what humanity does in the persecution of mutants and his hatred for what humanity did to him and his kind in the past drive him as a character. Magneto follows Erik from his time as a guinea pig for his Nazi captors in Auschwitz, to his short-lived domestic life and into his search to bring all Nazi’s to justice. The pursuit of revenge takes Erik all over the world, from France to Argentina to Israel to the United States, and his experiences lay the ground work for his evolution into Magneto.
The next 2 paragraphs have some spoilers….highlight to read
In the beginning, Erik is hesitant to kill; aghast at the thought of it, but pain and rage define him (and Star Wars fans know where that leads). When he stumbles across one of the Nazi fiends who ran the camp and tortured its inhabitants, he demands that the man be taken to the authorities. Unfortunately, Erik is the outsider and this only elicits laughter. A fight ends in the death of the Nazi and the outing of Erik’s powers to the townspeople who proceed to burn his house with his wife and daughter still inside.
Erik grieves and this only stokes the anger. He hopes to quiet this storm by bringing other Nazi’s in for their crimes. During the course of this mission, he stumbles onto a far-reaching Nazi plot. It seems the Fourth Reich is still interested in the creation of a ubermensch and works with the newly emerging mutant strain of evolution to accomplish this. Erik finds some assistance at the hands of a CIA agent stationed in Argentina, but when a confrontation between Erik and some Nazi’s goes ballistic, the agent is pulled back to America and Erik must find new leads.
During his travels, Erik discovers a kindred spirit running an institute in Israel. His name – Charles Xavier. He’s bald, pretty quick on his feet, and like Erik has powers beyond that of your run-of-the-mill homo sapien. Charles tries to help Erik handle what’s inside him and the two men form a friendship.
The Skinny
A bar was set by X-Men, raised by X-Men 2 and dropped into a deep, DEEP chasm by X-Men 3. Going into my reading of this script, I was looking forward to the Wolverine prequel they’re developing a lot more. Who’s cooler than Wolverine? (Silence! Gambit fans…I thought, what could they possibly do in a script to make me interested in Magneto? I’m sorry to have doubted them. This is a dark journey into the genesis of a villain. This is what Star Wars Episodes 1-3 should have been. I do worry that some of the violence, necessary to truly understand what drives Erik to embrace his deadly destiny, will be lost in transition to the screen in an effort to make this appeal to a wide audience. I’m worried that the casting office has the monumental task of discovering a young Erik Lehnsherr (and Charles Xavier for that matter). I’m worried about the weight of this material in the hands of the film’s director. I am not, however, worried about this script and you shouldn’t worry either. Fans will appreciate this early friendship developed between Erik and Charles, long before they adopt their monikers of Magneto and Professor X. I can’t wait to see them fight side by side. Make no mistake, this is Erik’s movie and Charlie doesn’t appear until the mid-point. Fans of the comic and films alike will appreciate early appearances of Cerebro and some brief, but notable mutant cameos.
Let’s face it, Nazi’s are the perfect villains because no one wants them to succeed… except for other Nazi’s I guess… and F them! It worked in Indiana , it works much better in Magneto because of the character’s awful and personal history with them. If you thought Magneto was compelling as a villain, you need to experience the anti-hero that is Erik Lehnsherr. My only lingering question – when did he find time to sire Wanda and Pietro?
