‘X-Men’ is coming to the FOX network in a new live-action series.
With the recent success of ‘Gotham’, Fox is getting in the comic book TV business. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the network is in talks to bring the Marvel comic book and feature film series to television.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the network is having preliminary conversations to adapt the iconic Marvel comic series — and feature film franchise — as a live-action television series with 24producers Evan Katz and Manny Coto involved.
Fox’s potential live-action series is being penned byStar Trek 3 writing duo Patrick McKay and JD Payne, sources tell THR, who will share a created by credit on the project with Katz and Coto. Katz and Coto will serve as showrunners. [via]
Fox currently owns the rights to the film franchise with seven movies already released based on X-Men characters. According to reports, Marvel still has to sign off on the deal and that would mean Disney and their TV network, ABC will have to agree upon a deal.
“We’re cautiously optimistic, we had a good meeting with them,” Newman told the site, noting that any possible X-Men show “will not be on a fast track creatively.” Rather, it’d bow during the 2016-17 TV season at earliest.
Because of the delicate particulars involved, “This is just the deal,” Newman noted. “[N]ow we have to find the creative.”
The X-Men are “mutants“, a subspecies of humans who are born with superhuman abilities. They fight for peace and equality between normal humans and mutants in a world where anti-mutant bigotry is fierce and widespread. With seven films released, the X-Men film series is the 12th highest-grossing film franchise of all-time, having grossed over US$3 billion worldwide. It is set to continue with a spin-off film, Deadpool, a sequel to X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse and a spin-off film, Gambit in 2016, and a third Wolverine film in 2017.
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