'Magneto' movie 'may never be made'

X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner has revealed that a film based on Magneto may never be made.

When quizzed about the future of the X-Men franchise Donner also admitted that, should the movie ever go ahead, Sir Ian McKellen would not play the role of the villain throughout the origin story.

She told Empire: "David Goyer has written a brilliant script. It starts in the concentration camps and has Magneto coming out of there. But you know, I'm not sure that film is going to be made.

"The studio has a wealth of potential stories, and they have to stand back and decide which ones to make. And Magneto, I think, is at the back of the queue. Maybe it'll get made in five years - who knows?"

Discussing Deadpool, starring Ryan Reynolds, Donner said that she hoped to announce a writer for the project by November.

She teased the X-Men: First Class film, being written by Josh Schwartz, is to be similar in tone to the recent, "darker" Harry Potter movies but revealed the project furthest along was Wolverine 2.

"This movie will really focus on the relationship between Wolverine and Mariko, the daughter of a Japanese crime lord, and what happens to him in Japan," she said of the Chris McQuarrie-penned film.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is out on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow.