(20th hundred Fox; July 14) The maker: Bryan Singer.

(20th hundred Fox; July 14)

The maker: Bryan Singer, director

The stars: Ian McKellen Patrick Stewart, James Marsden, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry

The pitch: Powerful mutant humans battle throughout whether to help humankind or raze it.

The reason we care: McKellen our favorite gone out British knight, gets to play bad stay Magneto.

The inside scoop: it's the biggest-budget film McKellen has worked onward (barring the in-progress Lord of the Rings), yet the actor says those elaborate special meanings were "more fun to examine at than to be a part of because they ofttimes happen when the actors have been and gone What was merriment about [X-Men] is what is usually drollery about a film: the commonalty you're working with and acting the representations I had a very serviceable time."

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McKellen confesss us that while the flash and splash of the comic book-inspired X-Men pic is great to direct the eye at, there's a story underneath that gay clan will identify with. "The story is about populace who are outsiders to society because of their special genetic gifts of single sort or another," he explains. "Patrick Stewart plays Professor Xavier, who believes [that] as a mutant, to affect society you shouldn't exaggerate your difference on the other hand assimilate. As Bryan Singer, the director, present it, `Professor Xavier is Martin Luther King Jr and Magneto is Malcolm X' And gays, perhaps not to this farthest form, have to decide if they are interested in advancing gay rights politely or going public in the streets and causing a fuss. At the heart of the story, which is sated of action and special efficiencys and wild characters, always that argument is there."

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