Sir Ian McKellen recently spoke with Empire and had this to say about X-Men Origins: Magneto

“There’s meant to be a ‘Magneto’ script floating around [But] I’ve not read it, so I suspect it wouldn’t involve me.”

The acclaimed “X-Men” and “Lord of the Rings” actor acknowledged the already well-publicized idea that “Magneto” would focus on the mankind-hating mutant as a youth, meaning that McKellen’s involvement in the project is probably unnecessary.

“I think it would be about the younger Magneto, and the most I could hope for would be to top and tail that,” said the actor. “They can’t have someone whose face is as lined as mine any longer!”

McKellen and Patrick Stewart were aged down in “X-Men: The Last Stand” thanks to the wonders of modern CGI effects, but that was just a fleeting scene—a whole movie with that technology in effect would be very hard to pull off.

But the actor isn’t ruling out a cameo return for “Magneto,” particular because Stewart’s recent appearance in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was such a hit.

“Ooh, he was very pleased with himself that he was going in to be in ‘Wolverine,'” McKellen said. “It was only an hour’s work!”