{"id":43993,"date":"2017-05-16T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=43993"},"modified":"2017-05-16T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T16:14:13","slug":"michael-fassbender-allegedly-returning-as-magneto-in-x-men-dark-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=43993","title":{"rendered":"Michael Fassbender allegedly returning as Magneto in X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39730\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?attachment_id=39730\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Magneto.jpg?fit=1500%2C791&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1500,791\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Magneto\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Magneto.jpg?fit=640%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Magneto.jpg?resize=470%2C248&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"248\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Magneto.jpg?resize=1024%2C540&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Magneto.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Magneto.jpg?resize=768%2C405&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Magneto.jpg?resize=265%2C140&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Magneto.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Magneto.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James McAvoy&#8217;s Professor X having a pivotal role in <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/darkphoenix\">DARK PHOENIX<\/a> is a given, but the question on everyone&#8217;s mind is if <strong>Michael Fassbender<\/strong> will return as Magneto. According to MTV&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuahorowitz\/status\/864243778344935425\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Horowitz<\/a>, we should &#8220;bet big&#8221; on him coming back as the ever-conflicted and passionate Erik Lehnsherr.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Want to know Fassbender&#39;s X-MEN future? Bet big on him appearing in DARK PHOENIX but not NEW MUTANTS. Oh, I just saw Michael Fassbender BTW<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Horowitz (@joshuahorowitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuahorowitz\/status\/864243778344935425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But apparently not for director Josh Boone&#8217;s upcoming X-Men spin-off <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/the-new-mutants\/\">THE NEW MUTANTS<\/a>, which doesn&#8217;t seem to feature McAvoy either, if The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Borys_Kit\/status\/862792208654651392\" target=\"_blank\">Borys Kit<\/a> is to be believed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On NEW MUTANTS: other rumored castings &#8211; James McAvoy as Prof X &#8211; not true. He is not in movie, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Borys Kit (@Borys_Kit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Borys_Kit\/status\/862792208654651392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mystique actress Jennifer Lawrence previously said she would consider coming back if McAvoy and Fassbender were in the mix, so is she on board as well? We&#8217;ll find out soon enough as filming begins this Summer in Montreal for theatrical release on November 2, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James McAvoy&#8217;s Professor X having a pivotal role in DARK PHOENIX is a given, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Michael Fassbender allegedly returning as Magneto in #XMen #DarkPhoenix.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60,15,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casting","category-crew-talk","category-untitled-2018-film"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Magneto.jpg?fit=1500%2C791&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}