Michael Fassbender Offered Role Of Magneto For X-Men First Class

Deadline is reporting that actor Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) has been offered the role of Magneto in the upcoming "X-Men: First Class" movie from 20th Century Fox.

According to the report, Fassbender was offered the role today after reading last week, along with Aaron Johnson, Andrew Garfield, Jack Huston and Eddie Redmayne.

Fassbender is also being courted by another studio to play a villian in the upcoming Spider-Man movie as well, so it remains unclear which part the young actor will choose if either, but one thing is for sure, he can't do both movies.

Already confirmed for the role of Charles Xavier is actor James McAvoy (Wanted).

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS begins production this summer for a June 3, 2011 release. Bryan Singer, who conceived the story for FIRST CLASS and directed the original “X-Men” and its sequel “X2,” is producing along with Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, following the classic Marvel mythology, charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.