Marvel Studios has officially announced its cast for the next generation of X-Men, and while there's a lot of positive buzz right now on the heels of Sadie Sink's Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, I think there's a problem. The franchise has yet to announce who will play Magneto, but I'm wondering how the character can even be the same at all given this new cast.
With this X-Men cast being rooted in the present, and former Girls actor Christopher Abbott playing Charles Xavier at 40-years-old has me speculating that Magneto's actor will remain relatively the same age. In any case, rooting this movie in the present has me wondering if the studio has thought about the character's big origin as a Holocaust survivor, and how that experience shaped his complicated viewpoints on whether humanity and Mutants can co-exist. It has me wondering: are we in for a big Magneto retcon, or does Marvel have other plans?
