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Reagen Sulewski: The Magneto movie has always struck me as a bad idea anyway, with big time Phantom Menace Syndrome issues working against it. While the fact that he'd be fighting Nazis at least gives him a plausible villain, you're asking audiences to root for someone you've spent three films building up as a villain. There's an interesting story to tell there, but not in two-hour comic movie form.

Max Braden: I have trouble imagining any big action sequences for Magneto that would make that movie a blockbuster, but he's not the only choice to go to. I'd want to see Gambit first. They could return to a sibling rivalry story with Havok and Cyclops and play with love triangle issues with Emma Frost.

Tony Kollath: I'm holding out for a Storm movie, so that we can delve into her rich history of finding out what happens when toads get hit by lightning.

Jim Van Nest: The thing is, people WANT to see more of Wolverine. He's a bad-ass character. Magneto, while a fabulous villain (if that's the right word), I've seen plenty of. We know he was in a Nazi prison camp. How much more do we really need to know? Wolverine had so much of his past shrouded in mystery, people wanted to know about it. Magneto? Notsomuch.

Sean Collier: As a non-fan, I'm far less interested in Magneto than several other characters. After the Wolverine movie, I'd be far more interested in another film focusing on Gambit or Cyclops than Magneto. It might be more bankable to somehow build a franchise off of this film than continue to arbitrarily tell somewhat disconnected origin stories. Then again, with Marvel's ambitions for a dozen Iron Man spin-offs or whatever it was, oversaturation is going to hit soon.

David Mumpower: As I referenced in the first topic regarding Wolverine, my take on this is similar to The Scorpion King, a Mummy film that wasn't Mummy enough for fans of the franchise. I don't consider Iron Man an original film inasmuch as it's an introductory piece for the character. The X-Men films had already established who Wolverine was and that he really wasn't that complex. Forming an entire film around that character seemed like a mistake to me, and the handling of the premise was passive/aggressive to boot. Other X-Men wound up being utilized in relatively reckless ways, almost as if people working on the production got cold feet about having not enough recognizable characters. Magneto would allow for the introduction of his children, a couple of key players for The Avengers movie, but since there doesn't appear to be any tie-in likely there, it's just a bad idea all around. Fox needs to go back to the entirety of the X-Men with an overarching story such as Apocalypse, House of M, or Days of Future Past. Whatever the choice they make, story needs to be the priority. This is two straight special effects X-films that had no cohesive backbone. We're getting into Joel Schumacher territory here.

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