Sheldon Turner, screenwriter on the planned Magneto origin film, revealed some details of the plot during a recent interview and talked about writing another origin of evil: a prequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
"Everybody has that sense of, how did this person become that person?," he told Bullz Eye. "It's a big part of the 'Star Wars' franchise now. It's the knowing wink-wink of, this is Leatherface as I know him, this is Anakin Skywalker as I know him, and this is how he became that thing. I'm also writing 'Magneto' for Fox, based on one of the X-Men characters.
"Yeah, it's a young Magneto. It opens up with a 14-year-old Magneto being abducted and put into Auschwitz," Turner says.
The live action film will be "made for a 28-, 29-year-old actor. And then it tracks on how he seeks vengeance on the Nazis who killed his parents in the camps. And in the same way -- ala Anakin Skywalker, Leatherface, any of these iconic characters -- what was interesting for me and what will be interesting for the audience is, 'All right, now I understand why he did that thing. Does it make me love him more? Maybe not, but-' … it definitely makes me understand it more. People are fascinated by the origins of any human being. It's a way to indulge their pseudo-psychological interests, and have fun at the same time."
Read the rest of the interview here.
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