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He next portrayed Magneto in the superhero blockbuster X-Men: First Class, the prequel to X-Men. Set in 1962, it focuses on the friendship between Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) and Magneto and the origin of their groups, the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. The film was released on 3 June 2011 to general acclaim and financial ...
X-Men: Apocalypse grossed $155.4 million in the U.S. and Canada and $388.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $543.9 million against a budget of $178 million. [4] The film became the third highest grossing film in the X-Men series, behind Deadpool and X-Men: Days of Future Past. [102] It made 27% less than Days of Future ...
McKellen played Magneto in the original trilogy films X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), in addition to making a cameo in The Wolverine (2013); while Fassbender portrayed a younger version of the character in the prequel films X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and Dark Phoenix (2019).
The first three films in the series are X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), starring Hugh Jackman as James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine, Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier / Professor X, Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe / Storm, Anna Paquin as Marie D'Ancanto ...
In 2011, he played Carl Jung in David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, and a man suffering with sex addiction in McQueen's Shame. [8] His performance in the latter earned him the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. [8] In the same year he appeared in superhero film X-Men: First Class as young Magneto.
Picking up right where the original left off, X-Men '97 keeps the same '90s animation style, and has many of the original show's voice cast to boot. The show follows the X-Men after Charles Xavier ...
In 1999, McKellen was cast, again under the direction of Bryan Singer, to play the comic book supervillain Magneto in the 2000 film X-Men and its sequels X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). [24]
He's played a president, a soldier and a superhero's uncle. But Martin Sheen's greatest role is as the consummate actor's actor. "You made me feel like I've really had a substantial career," the ...