Marvel’s Wolverine, Magneto getting their own movies

Coming to theaters near you in 2009, two of Marvel Comics best known and most popular mutants will be getting their very own movie spin-offs to the X-Men trilogy, they being Wolverine and Magneto.

While rumors of the two X-Men stars getting their very own origin stories have been humming around the web and your local comic book store for the past four years, it looks like both will be in theaters very soon with a Wolverine movie being released first.

Hugh Jackman, who became a household name as Wolverine in all three X-Men movies, will be reprising the role for the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine, currently being filmed and expected in theaters May 2009.

Regarding how the look and feel of the Wolverine movie will compared to the past X-Men film, Jackman told MTV,

“I feel it is different, but I don’t think it will be night and day. The movie has a lot of fun elements, but there are layers of pain and darkness to this character. Tonally, I would put it more in the Batman Begins sort of realm. That’s sort of where we’re headed.”

This darker element to Wolverine is something fans have wanted to see for quite some time. All three X-Men movies feature parts of Wolverine’s past and inner rage that makes Wolverine the best and what he does, but he wasn’t really allowed to let loose the ways fans have come to expect from the most fierce character in the Marvel universe.

Jackman also said that the Wolverine origins movie want be his last, if he has it his way, but only the first in a series of Wolverine films.

As for the second X-Men origin movie in the works, Magneto, Sir Ian McKellen told Empire Online that he won’t be back to reprise the role of the mutant overlord in his own spin-off film. This is likely because the film makers want the movie to showcase a much younger Magneto, requiring a younger actor despite the anti-aging technology that was used on McKellen and Patrick Steward in the opening of X-Men 3.

Right now there is no word on when the Magneto film will hit theaters or who will take on the leading role. We do know that the film will deal with a young Magneto shortly after being released from a Nazi concentration camp after the Second World War and how Magneto, who had once been a good guy, became evil.

Currently, Sir Ian McKellen is slated to reprise another famous role, that of Gandalf in director Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming adaptation to the Hobbit, which will be released as two movies.

Read [MTV] Also Read [Empire Online]