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Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an British and American actor. He has played roles on the screen and stage in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is regarded as a British cultural icon and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards and five Emmy Awards. McKellen made his stage debut in 1961 at the Belgrade Theatre as a member of its repertory company, and in 1965 made his first West End appearance. In 1969, he was invited to join the Prospect Theatre Company to play the lead parts in Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's Edward II. In the 1970s, McKellen became a stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain. He has earned five Olivier Awards for his roles in Pillars of the Community (1977), The Alchemist (1978), Bent (1979), Wild Honey (1984), and Richard III (1995). McKellen made his Broadway debut in The Promise (1965). He received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1980). He was further nominated for Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare (1984). He returned to Broadway in Wild Honey(1986), Dance of Death (1990), No Man's Land (2013), and Waiting for Godot (2013), the latter two being a joint production with Patrick Stewart. McKellen achieved worldwide fame for his film roles, including the titular King in Richard III(1995), James Whale in Gods and Monsters (1998), Magneto in the X-Men films, Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies. Other notable film roles include A Touch of Love (1969), Plenty (1985), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Restoration (1995), Flushed Away (2006), Mr. Holmes (2015), and The Good Liar (2019). McKellen came out as gay in 1988, and has since championed LGBT social movements worldwide. He was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in October 2014. McKellen is a cofounder of Stonewall, an LGBT rights lobby group in the United Kingdom, named after the Stonewall riots. He is also patron of LGBT History Month, Pride London, Oxford Pride, GayGlos, LGBT Foundation and FFLAG. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian McKellen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A month and a half after the events of "Mythological World", Washington DC is steal between the hands of the "Monsters" family. Yet, in good faith, they let the president go and leave the civilians alone, occupying the White House and the city until the terms they demanded for peace were agreed to. However, the American Army, led by the Xenophobe Admiral Chadwick, against the advice of the President, is preparing an assault like no other with the best top secret weapons in their possession, such as flying aircraft carriers and combat mechs ! For its part, a european secret society "protecting" the world from "monsters" for a long time, called "Ouranos", is collaborating with the CIA, in order to find the one and only object that could allow them to put the monsters out of service : Pandora's Box ! To do this, they bring out of a Colorado Madhouse Danny Nasri, a man who has visions of the object and is connected to the mystical forces of this world, like Gloria Salah, the friend of the "Monsters". Only, Nasri is a psychopathic serial killer, with genius intellect, and it's very hard to believe what he says. After following a false lead in the Canary Islands, he has a vision of where the box realy is : the Catacombs of Paris. However, she's not without protection and, by wanting to "save" the world from monsters, the CIA and Ouranos risk causing a real Apocalypse !
