David Goyer Talks Super Max and Magneto

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Director David Goyer is a busy man and it seems he is only going to get busier as the year goes on.

Goyer was at Wizard World Chicago when Wizard caught up with him to ask him a few questions about some projects he has on the way. First on the slate was Magneto which would be the spinoff from the X-Men franchise. The film has been rumored to tell the origin tale of villain Magneto. Goyer filled in a little info on filming and the status of the picture.

We’re scouting and budgeting now. It’s the origins of the X-Men with Magneto and Charles Xavier. We’ve done some scouts and it mostly takes place in Europe and Argentina. We’re doing budgets and we’re sort of halfway crewed up, and so that’ll be the big question: whether we can bring it in for a price. But that’s all I can say.”

Goyer will be writing and directing Magneto. And secondly he spoke of a project called Super Max which he will be producing. The film tells a story of comic book hero Green Arrow being wrongly imprisoned in a facility designed for super villains.

We haven’t even officially turned in a script for that yet. The idea is that they’re mostly sort of third-tier DC villains, but that was part of the fun, that they’re relatively obscure. But Icicle is in it from JSA—from my days on writing that. I mean, people will recognize most of them. What we did was present to DC a list of people we wanted, and then they went through it on a case-by-case basis and told us whether we could have them or not.