10 Promising Comic Book Movies That Sadly Never Happened

4. X-Men Origins: Magneto

For many X-Men fans, the best parts of X-Men: First Class were the ones that featured a young Erik Lensherr / Magneto as a Nazi Hunter out for revenge. And there was a time when Fox was actually going to deliver an entire movie centered around that material. David Goyer was given writing and directing duties for the film. The movie was set to take place before the X-Men trilogy and would center around the origins of none other than our favorite magnetism magician. Ian McKellen even said he would reprise the role using the computer-generated facelift applied to him in the prologue of X-Men: The Last Stand. The official synopsis read as follows: €œThe original X-Men film began with a prologue that showed the character as a child being led to a concentration camp by Nazis and that is the period in which the Magneto film will take place. This setup will allow a future villain to at least flirt with the designation of protagonist since the character will be seen almost exclusively in his formative years.€ The project lost momentum thanks both to the WGA strike and the lukewarm reception to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But thankfully we indeed got X-Men: First class a few years later.