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Fassbender 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: First Class (stylized on-screen as X: First Class) is a 2011 superhero film based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics. It is the fourth mainline installment in the X-Men film series and the fifth installment overall. It was directed by Matthew Vaughn and produced by Bryan Singer, and stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender ...
Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, also known as Magneto, is a character primarily portrayed by Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender in 20th Century Fox 's X-Men film series. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, he has appeared in eight installments of the franchise. McKellen played Magneto in the original trilogy films X-Men (2000), X2 ...
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.
List of X-Men film series cast members. List of. X-Men. film series cast members. Jackman is the most recurring actor in the franchise, appearing in nine films. Stewart, McKellen, Janssen, Berry, Paquin, Marsden, Ashmore, and Romijn star in the original trilogy, while McAvoy, Fassbender, Lawrence, and Hoult are the recurring cast in the latter ...
He later reprised his role of Magneto in 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past, sharing the role with Michael Fassbender, who played a younger version of the character in 2011's X-Men: First Class. [51] While filming the first X-Men film in 1999, McKellen was cast as the wizard Gandalf in Peter Jackson's film trilogy adaptation of The Lord of the ...
Magneto (/ mæɡˈniːtoʊ /; birth name: Max Eisenhardt; alias: Erik LehnsherrGerman pronunciation: [ˈeːʁɪk ˈleːnshɛʁ] and Magnus) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared ...
James McAvoy (/ ˈmækəvɔɪ /; born 21 April 1979) is a Scottish actor. He made his acting debut as a teen in The Near Room (1995) and appeared mostly on television until 2003, when his film career began. His notable television work includes the thriller State of Play (2003), the science fiction miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune ...