Heads: We have a Magneto movie. Tails: Keep on dreaming.  IGN’s honor roll top of the list No. 1 villain Magneto, flips his silver nickel into the air and for a moment suspends his fate for us…

HEADS:

The positive side is that a Magneto movie story is expected and however planned throughout time. Magneto’s origin story starting from its sordid WW II Auschwitz’s childhood to its fully dark transformation is one of the best villains stories ever.  With his monstrous early years on his shoulders, the fact of Magnus meeting and becoming buddies with Charles Xavier in a psychiatric Israeli hospital; to the foundation of The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants would definitely be a winning formula for a Magneto film!

TAILS:

On the negative side, Magneto A.K.A Erik the Red may not have enough power to attract a movie. Despite fan magnetism and encouraged optimism for seeing Magneto attacking the big screen, chances are is that this one, is not gonna happen. Even though The Law of Attraction states: “Wish with all your might shall it be granted”, truth be told is that we can wish all we want for a Magneto movie, that it won’t be granted for us, at least not by now, as recently revealed by X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner. To much is going on in the Marvel film production line, that Magneto should rather sit and enjoy a lot of soda and popcorn, while he sees other Marvel characters hit the multiplexes. Question is why? It makes sense: Iron Man 2 is the big next thing for Marvel along with a developing Deadpool flick. There is also an X-Men: First Class film on the works, followed by a surging Wolverine Origins 2; so why should a Magneto film be a priority? Add to the equation that Ian Mckellen is a fine actor, but way to aged to play Erik the Red, plus the fact that Marvel has 7,000 characters meaning infinite potential stories, that they have a lifetime for deciding who they want as blockbuster material and when they want them for production. But for now, it seems that they are not attracted to see The Master of Magnetism in a film, even if in our “heads” we wish the other way around.