X-Men Origins Magneto

X-Men Origins Magneto is a cancelled X-Men sequel that was supposed to come out after X-Men Origins Wolverine.

Development
After X2: X-Men United came out, Fox was beginning to develop a set of X-Men character origin stories. After Fox made the announcement, screenwriter, Sheldon Turner was brought on board to write an origin story about Magneto. Turner described it as "The Pianist meets X-Men." Once Turner was done with script, Fox had to wait and see how X-Men Origins Wolverine does.

Plot
The film opens with Erik getting separated from his family at Auschwitz, just like the beginning of the first X-Men. Erik would get horrific experiences throughout Auschwitz; People being executed, beaten, threatened, and experimented. Erik would figure out his parents died, and become a serious test subject to a Nazi doctor; Dr. Kleinman. When Germany starts losing the war, Auschwitz shuts down. After the camp gets shut down, Erik meets a Gypsy girl named Magda, who would later become his wife.

In 1951, Erik and Magda are in a town in the Ukraine trying to live a normal life with themselves and their daughter. Erik works construction and his wife would stay home. However, during one night, Erik would go to a pub to have a drink, when Erik is having a drink, he recognizes one of the Nazi officers at the camp. Erik and the guy would get into a fight when they fight Erik uses his powers to severely injure the guy, with many people watching. The witnesses would believe that Erik and his family are the embodiment of demons, and later form all the townsfolks to burn down his house. Erik would return to his house and to see it burned down with his wife and daughter in it. Erik then would go into a rage mode, and destroy the town and possibly kill every townsfolk.

One year later, Erik would be in France, practicing his faith, grieving over his loved ones, and trying to convince a professional Nazi Hunter; Noah to join him and help track down Nazis. Noah refuses to let him join and says, "Leave it to the professionals." After saying that, he hands him a card that leads to a doctor in Israel, but when Noah gets distracted and leaves the room quick, he steals enough files and leads to infamous Nazis. Erik learns that Dr. Kleinman and his associates are living in Argentina and having great lives. Erik goes to Argentina and to hunt his first Nazi at a bank. When kidnapping the banker, Erik is approach by a guy named Agent Graves, who tries to convince him to join him, but he refuses and takes the banker to the embassy. Once Erik arrives at the embassy and delivers the banker, they don't believe him, and he gets out of control and reveals his magnetism. The marines charged at him, but he fights them off and Agent Graves helps him escape. Agent Graves begins to show Erik around and plans on helping him track down the most targeted Nazis including Dr. Kleinman. Erik takes a serious interest, and finds one of Kleinman's most closest associates. Kleinman's closest associate is revealed working at a dentist. Erik confronts him and begins to question him while using his powers on him. Before he tells the truth, he grabs a gun and kill himself. Erik would get the guys notebooks, files, and addresses of all of Kleinman's associates. Erik would go to the main one. Once he arrives he's encountered by Kleinman's other main associate, and a group of Nazi fugitives and townsfolks who support the Nazis. Erik fights all the fugitive and townsfolks, but the associate and a few fugitives get away. Erik then discovers an underground laboratory, and to find that Kleinman is not just alive, but he's conducting experiments and making a plan for Israel. Erik then goes to warn Graves, but Graves has been pulled off the mission by government officials, leaving Erik all alone. Erik travels to Israel, explores, and out of nowhere starts to have memories of his family members. Erik goes to the hospital and to see his last family member on death bed. She doesn't remember him because of the traumatic events of The Holocaust. This heartbreaks and destroys Erik. After Erik meets his last family member, he grabs the card that Noah gave him. Erik meets the doctor, and the doctor is revealed to be Charles Xavier. Charles Xavier and Erik show their powers, their ideologies, and start to become friends. Xavier begins to take a deep dive in Erik's mind, it's first positive then it's negative. The next day when Erik goes somewhere far away from the institute Erik is confronted by the associate and the few fugitives. Erik kills them and finds passports and information about Kleinman on them that leads to the U.S. At the institute a few of the fugitives cause an explosion at the institute. Erik then blames himself for bringing this to Charles. Charles doesn't blame Erik. Erik then reveals the truth, the fugitives, and his plan to Charles. At the U.S. it's revealed that Graves has been in on Kleinman's plan the entire time. The plan was to lure and distract a lot of agents and professional hunters from hunting the most targeted Nazis so he can complete his work, and get Erik into his trap. As day past, Erik confronts Graves at the zoo with his family. Graves admits to Erik that he trying complete Hitler's legacy and fix the problems of the past. Erik gets captured by agents and some cops, but later escapes with the help of Charles. When Charles and Erik get to Kleinman, they battle a bunch of agents and fugitives. As Erik gets to Kleinman, he starts getting attacked by a bunch of superhuman Aryan twins. Charles gets to Kleinman's experiments. His experiments include people with a disability, a different race, and two mutants; Mystique and Sabertooth. As Erik defeats the twins and as Charles frees the experiments, Kleinman rushes to his car to escape. Once Kleinman slams the gas to escape, Erik uses his powers to make Kleinman rocket into a tree. The car then burst into flames. As the car continues burning, Erik enjoys watching him burn. All the test subjects are free and Charles and Erik reunite.

In the early 1960's, Charles buys a property, which will later become the school in the future, for his operation for him, Erik, and the government. As Charles and Erik are sorting junk and art out of the mansion, Erik finds an artifact mask for himself; the mask that he wears throughout the first three X-Men.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) X-Men Origins Wolverine did a bad job.
 * 2) Wolverine also performed poorly at the box office.

Result

 * The film was cancelled.
 * Elements of Magneto's storyline was used for the 2011 prequel film, X-Men: First Class.