in my opinion. he should have played Magneto.

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GingerVitus — 16 years ago(May 26, 2009 07:24 PM)

Terence would have KILLED IT as Magneto!!!
"Come on, Skip. It's go-go, not cry-cry!"

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MuMu2525 — 16 years ago(June 07, 2009 09:11 PM)

He would have been good but Ian McKellen was fantastic as Magneto. I would have very much liked to have seen Terence Stamp switch roles with Christopher Lee in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and have TS play Count Dooku and CL play Chancellor Valorum.
Terence with a lightsabreYEAY!

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davidasimov — 16 years ago(February 26, 2010 09:12 PM)

Anyone would've been better than McKellen as Magneto. Even Don Knotts!

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paperline — 14 years ago(May 24, 2011 04:45 PM)

He is so Magneto! I never thought of that and I love this actor. I never agreed with the McKellen choice. McKellen was brilliant as Gandalf, though. But he is not Magneto.

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andras-andreea — 14 years ago(June 22, 2011 03:15 PM)

I disagree with many of these opinions. McKellen was great, actually, he's always great. Someone who says that ANYBODY could've made a better Magneto, doesn't know anything about acting, and I really don't wanna be rude, but this is the true. The way he was walking, the way he was looking at the other peopleHE was SO Magneto. Terence Stamp would've made a good Magneto, probably, but not a better one, he must look more elegant to play Magneto. At least, this is my opinion.

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djpekky-1 — 13 years ago(March 01, 2013 10:00 PM)

Let alone that Michael Fassbender resembles Stamp a lot more than he does McKellen. And they have the same angelic-yet-evil and dark/tormented charm!

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tiwaz1022 — 11 years ago(July 24, 2014 10:43 PM)

I read somewhere some time ago that Terence Stamp as actually the first choice for Magneto. For some reason it went to Ian McKellen but Stamp WAS the pick number one. McKellen's Magneto was theatrical and quite playful, Stamp would have been more ruthless. And yes Fassbender does look more like Stamp.

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sllamb-1 — 11 years ago(August 22, 2014 01:43 AM)

Really? What a pity that he didn't get to play Magneto. Would be a dream pair : Stamp and Fassbender!

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tiwaz1022 — 9 years ago(September 10, 2016 02:05 AM)

Curious: Ian McKellen was NOT the first pick for two roles which eventually went to him and made him extremely famous today. Sean Connery was the first choice for Gandalf and Terence Stamp for Magneto. Being both older than McKellen and having achieved fame as film stars way before McKellen did, I think these two didn't want a long-term commitment to do several films in sequence. They were perhaps thinking of themselves as semi-retired.

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tiwaz1022 — 11 years ago(July 24, 2014 10:44 PM)

I read somewhere some time ago that Terence Stamp was actually the first choice for Magneto. For some reason it went to Ian McKellen but Stamp WAS pick number one. McKellen's Magneto was theatrical and quite playful, Stamp would have been more ruthless. And yes Fassbender does look more like Stamp.