{"id":32668,"date":"2015-07-21T01:55:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=32668"},"modified":"2015-07-29T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T00:45:22","slug":"ian-mckellen-says-x-men-is-about-something-calls-superman-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=32668","title":{"rendered":"McKellen: X-MEN is about something. SUPERMAN is a joke."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rogue<\/p>\n

“Well, he persuaded me,” said Ian McKellen<\/strong> to Uproxx Movies<\/a> about director Bryan Singer first approaching him to play Magneto in a\u00a0superhero movie with a personal message. “X-Men was about something. Superman isn\u2019t really about anything. It\u2019s a joke. The nerd changes his underpants and becomes a Superman. That\u2019s James Bond: \u201cShaken, not stirred,\u201d silly, stupid, British twit\u2026 and then, Action Man! But X-Men is about the problems of being a mutant. And we\u2019ve all felt we\u2019re mutants on occasion. So, that was the hook for me. And don\u2019t forget, I didn\u2019t have to sign to do anymore than one [at the time]; I\u2019m just doing a movie.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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