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Almost twenty years (I believe the movie came out in 2000) and it finally occurred to me to ask this:
Why didn't they just tell Magneto that his machine is more likely to kill people?
His plan hinged on turning the leaders of the world into Mutants (and thereby forcing them to rethink their thoughts on the matter for their own good if nothing else) so finding out he was just killing those highly influential men and women would have been a detriment to his plan.
Hell, if he'd known, he'd have likely tried to fix that issue instead of jumping into using it (though the timing of the summit made his rush understandable).
So yeah, just tell Magneto that it doesn't work.
...wait, now that I think about it, didn't they tell him that Senator Kelly was dead? You'd think he'd have pulled back after that. It's been a while since I watched the movie (good grief, that movie was so long ago), so maybe I'm forgetting some details.
One Strip! One Strip!I think the problem is that no one told Bryan Singer that the plan wouldn't work. Seriously, even if everything had gone perfectly, you wouldn't have a room full of world leaders who were now mutants — you'd have a room full of world leaders who were no longer world leaders. Maybe you could take advantage of that global chaos in some way, but the movie never really acts like there's anything more to it than that.
Cyclops actually tells Magneto that his plan won't work because Senator Kelly died as a result of the machine. Magneto just cracks a mild smirk and answers something to the effect of "Did he now?". The implication being that Magneto either A) doesn't buy that Kelly is dead. B) Thinks Cyclops is bullshitting him.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I think it's fair to say that the combination of Auschwitz and Gandalf make it seem like that character has more going on than the script actually gives him. Like, Magneto not believing that his machine is actually going to kill people doesn't even matter, because the script takes a detour to explain why this plan wouldn't work, but the big machine is such a comic-book element in a script that is otherwise trying to take itself seriously. It doesn't quite work.
Apparently X-Men film producer Lauren Schuyler Donner owns the X-Men rights and Fox just distributes.
"By the mid-90s, after a deal with Columbia Pictures fell through, the rights were picked up by Lauren Schuler Donner (St. Elmo’s Fire, Pretty in Pink) following the successful animated spin-off of the comic series, who took the project to 20th Century Fox."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Marvel/comments/5cfvp6/who_actually_owns_the_rights_to_marvels_characters/
Edited by ManOfSin on Oct 3rd 2018 at 6:58:02 AM
Funny that you mention that. Because Donner is happy with the merge and wants to work with Feige again.
“Sure, why not?” said Shuler Donner. “Look, it’s 18 months away, so who knows. For me, I think Bob Iger is one of the smartest men in the country. Alan Horn’s an old friend. Kevin Feige was my intern and assistant and then my associate producer on the first ‘X-Men.’ Kevin and I started the ‘X-Men’ together, so for me if we work with Kevin, I’m happy.”
Edited by ManOfSin on Oct 3rd 2018 at 6:47:11 AM

All we got was the Star Wars and Pacman stuff with that.
Just Makima.