Jun 16 2006Making Professor X and Magneto Young
X-Men 3 used some pretty amazing digital trickery to portray Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart as younger versions of themselves. Now you can see side-by-side comparisons of just how drastic the transformations were, turning Stewart into a smooth plastic doll, and McKellen into Timothy Dalton's gayer brother. Someone should tell Cher* about this. She could have saved herself a few replacement faces. Because she's had so much plastic surgery!
*Alternatively, Joan Rivers.
See youthful Magneto under the cut.
Reader Comments
1. Praz - June 16, 2006 10:31 AM
So what, does this mean that Sir Ian McKellan will reprise the role in the prequel movie?
2. andrewthezeppo - June 16, 2006 1:18 PM
isn't this just in the flashback scene where they meet Jean, it took place 30 years before the rest of the movie it just makes sense that they'd make them look younger.
3. Psyn - June 17, 2006 4:04 AM
This was digital? wow. I am seriously impressed. I would normally bash how everything HAS to be digital but these guys did their job and they did it well. Props to digital effects.
george lucas on the other hand...
4. MoMoFaShoMo - June 17, 2006 12:53 PM
Actually, I'm pretty sure Jean wasn't supposed to be like 43 in the movie, so I dont think it was 30 years ago. I remember they did say how many years ago it was in the actuall movie, it was probably something closer to 20 years ago.
5. Pat - June 23, 2006 12:12 PM
well, because the movie sucks and makes no sense, it says "20 years ago" but the X-Men films are set in the future (and in fact later in the movie they say "in the not-too-distant-future"). So do they mean "20 years before the rest of the story" or "20 years before right now, but about 30 years before the rest of the story"? Like everything else in this pathetic excuse for a movie, they didn't really think this one through.