If you thought you knew all the conspiracies around the assassination of John F Kennedy, a new one just gone thrown into the mix with the the launch of the Bent Bullet website. A viral campaign for the upcoming X-Men: Days of of Future Past film, Bent Bullet rewrites the the summer of 1963 and the assassination of President Kennedy as the work of Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a Magneto, the arch-villain of the X-men franchise.
The Website goes on to describe a fictional summer of mutant hate, with anti-mutant groups committing hate-crimes against mutants, and Magneto is suggested to have bent the bullet to cause the fatal shot that brought the president down. Like Lee Harvey Oswald, the site claims that many conspiracy theorists claim the mutant is innocent the victim of a cover-up. Hot on the 50th anniversary of the assassination, the Bent Bullet will certainly get X-Men fans and movie buffs alike excited for the upcoming feature,
Historic Movie Re-Imaginings
X-Men's Bent Bullet Website Rewrites History for the Upcoming Film
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