Variety is reporting that Twentieth Century Fox has tapped Sheldon Turner to write a film based on X-Men villain Magneto.  Turner has a relatively short, and recent, resume:  he rewrote Amityville Horror, wrote The Longest Yard, and wrote a sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 

The film will take place in a World War II milieu, in which Magneto is taken to a concentration camp and sees his family killed.  Professor X will also be involved; he was among the troops that liberated the camps and got to know Magneto after the war.