QuoteX-Men Live-Action Series May be Headed to Fox
August 12, 2015 | Jennifer Lafferty
Negotiations are underway between Fox and Marvel to bring a live-action X-Men television series to the network. It makes sense that the show would air on Fox, since 20th Century Fox, which owns the rights to the hugely popular movie franchise, is the network's counterpart.
The series will be written by Patrick McKay and John D. Payne, who are also collaborating on the screenplay for the film Flash Gordon. McKay and Payne will reportedly share "created by" credit for the new show with the writing and producing duo of 24, Evan Katz and Manny Coto, who are also on board to serve as show runners for the series.
Fox Chairman and CEO Dana Walden recently confirmed reports that they are in talks with Marvel over the prospect of such a program and clarified which characters could be featured, saying: "The characters from the X-Men franchise are with Fox on the feature side, so we won't be including Marvel characters that are at ABC with Disney. This will be exclusively the franchise as it has existed at Fox."
Walden went on to say that Fox's goal for the show is to make it a "long-running" series rather than a limited revival.
There are no guarantees that any of the actors in the films will reprise their roles for the TV adaptation.
This news isn't a complete surprise. Last spring Simon Kinberg, who wrote the franchise's Days of Future Past, set rumors swirling when he remarked that he thought a TV series was a good idea.
http://www.stack.com/2015/08/12/x-men-live-action-series-fox/
That would be dope
that would be awesome
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this is gonna b a heap of shit
Wait Mel what do they mean by the Disney and abc characters?
Which characters can't perch on the show?
Quote from: Glock on August 12, 2015, 08:23:26 PM
Wait Mel what do they mean by the Disney and abc characters?
Which characters can't perch on the show?
Like Agents of SHIELD, which is on ABC.
Yes!!!!
Quote from: ssw4919 on August 12, 2015, 09:30:50 PM
Quote from: Glock on August 12, 2015, 08:23:26 PM
Wait Mel what do they mean by the Disney and abc characters?
Which characters can't perch on the show?
Like Agents of SHIELD, which is on ABC.
Oh fuck them
As long as jean and jubilee are perched
Quote from: Glockjean and jubilee
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This will be a spinoff show set in the same universe as the movies, so wont be the same Xmen on tv, but a new team. Its heavily speculated that it will be the Xfactor Investigations team, that comic is written like a tv show, so makes perfect sense
I think Glock meant to say Rogue & Storm
It will suck.
probably much less than Agents of shield and Flash/Arrow, no shade. But those shows arent that hard to top lol.
I liked them of course, but u get my point
Quote from: S.S on August 13, 2015, 05:48:26 AM
This will be a spinoff show set in the same universe as the movies, so wont be the same Xmen on tv, but a new team. Its heavily speculated that it will be the Xfactor Investigations team, that comic is written like a tv show, so makes perfect sense
fd
yay
more z-list mutants
thats expanding the universe, exactly what all studios want.
If we just see the same characters over and over on movies and tv, where's the new stuff then?