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"Ian McKellen has said that he will give Michael Fassbender &amp;quot;a run for his money&amp;quot; when he returns to the X-Men franchise. McKellen and Patrick Stewart will reprise their roles as Magneto and Professor X in Bryan Singer&amp;#039;s superhero sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past. The pair will play the future incarnations of Fassbender and James McAvoy&amp;#039;s X-Men: First Class mutants.   McKellen told The Huffington Post: &amp;quot;What a gas! I mean, Patrick Stewart and I have just been playing Waiting for Godot throughout England and in the West End of London. So, we&amp;#039;ve stayed in touch. We can&amp;#039;t believe it. &amp;quot;I thought these were Fassbender and McAvoy&amp;#039;s parts, but - no, no - we&amp;#039;re back. We&amp;#039;ll give them a run for their money. I mean, I haven&amp;#039;t read the script, so I don&amp;#039;t know how much we&amp;#039;ve got to do. But, to be back in that world, and for Bryan to be doing it - with all the success he&amp;#039;s had in the meantime - it&amp;#039;s wonderful. Wonderful.&amp;quot;  McKellen praised Fassbender&amp;#039;s performance as Magneto, the character he originated on the big screen in 2000&amp;#039;s X-Men. &amp;quot;I thought he was better than me. But, we weren&amp;#039;t quite playing the same character because he was so much younger than me,&amp;quot; McKellen said. &amp;quot;And the scope of Magneto, one day a Jewish actor will play it. Clearly, he&amp;#039;s Jewish. &amp;quot;We first meet him in at Auschwitz and there&amp;#039;s scope for all sorts of people to pay Magneto. But, I was just the lucky guy who got to play him first.&amp;quot; X-Men: Days of Future Past, which will also star Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult, will open in cinemas on July 18, 2014.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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