• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

X-Men Marvel Drama Gets Fox Pilot Order

Status
Not open for further replies.
B

BrokenFiction

Member
http://deadline.com/2017/01/x-men-marvel-drama-fox-pilot-order-matt-nix-1201893509/

Fox has made it official, handing its first drama pilot order of the season to an X-Men-themed Marvel action-adventure drama from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix, 20th Century Fox Television and Marvel Television.

The drama, which had a put pilot commitment, focuses on two ordinary parents who discover their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. The show appears particularly timely, dealing with the plight of minorities in society where there may not be enough tolerance for them.

Nix exec produced with Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg, key auspices of the X-Men feature franchise, as well as Marvel’s Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory.
Click to expand...

X-TV starting to look interesting...
 
G

guek

Banned
Does Fox have the rights to Molly Hayes?

I guess I shouldn't worry since a Runaways show is still technically in development at Marvel.
 
M

MadLaughter

Member
If people think that MARVEL is bad at integrating their TV/movie properties, I expect Fox to be even worse. Article says it's "produced" by the same people behind Legion, but I have zero faith they'll try to place it in either universe. Hell, they can't even have their own movie canon line up in a meaningful way.
 
F

FinaruDensetsu

Member
I really like how Fox is taking the superhero genre and trying some different things with it. Kind of like how Disney/Marvel is doing with the Netflix shows.

I can't stomach more samey Disney/Marvel big screen movies.
 
E

Extra Sauce

Member
MadLaughter said:
If people think that MARVEL is bad at integrating their TV/movie properties, I expect Fox to be even worse. Article says it's "produced" by the same people behind Legion, but I have zero faith they'll try to place it in either universe. Hell, they can't even have their own movie canon line up in a meaningful way.
Click to expand...

I'd be happy if Logan, Legion and this upcoming show all have nothing to do with each other.
 
T

The Silver

Member
MadLaughter said:
If people think that MARVEL is bad at integrating their TV/movie properties, I expect Fox to be even worse. Article says it's "produced" by the same people behind Legion, but I have zero faith they'll try to place it in either universe. Hell, they can't even have their own movie canon line up in a meaningful way.
Click to expand...
I don't think Fox is gonna pretend like they're connected in the first place.
 
S

Skyward Sheep

Banned
MadLaughter said:
If people think that MARVEL is bad at integrating their TV/movie properties, I expect Fox to be even worse. Article says it's "produced" by the same people behind Legion, but I have zero faith they'll try to place it in either universe. Hell, they can't even have their own movie canon line up in a meaningful way.
Click to expand...

I'm not too concerned with whether or not the shows are connected with the movies or each other. The first focus should be on making sure the shows are good, and as long as they are I'll be perfectly happy.
 
J

jon bones

hot hot hanuman-on-man action
Penguin said:
Assuming same thing they got with Legion, co-producing credits and a way to make money without doing work
Click to expand...

Duane Cunningham said:
X-Men Homecoming, 2018 baby!
Click to expand...

it has to be the First Family

reeds-promise.jpg
Click to expand...
 
D

Discotheque

Banned
MadLaughter said:
If people think that MARVEL is bad at integrating their TV/movie properties, I expect Fox to be even worse. Article says it's "produced" by the same people behind Legion, but I have zero faith they'll try to place it in either universe. Hell, they can't even have their own movie canon line up in a meaningful way.
Click to expand...

Who cares. As long as we get good shows and movies out of this
 
S

StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
MadLaughter said:
If people think that MARVEL is bad at integrating their TV/movie properties, I expect Fox to be even worse. Article says it's "produced" by the same people behind Legion, but I have zero faith they'll try to place it in either universe. Hell, they can't even have their own movie canon line up in a meaningful way.
Click to expand...

Meh, I'm ok with movies being movies sometimes. Hell, I'm happy with the Netflix Marvel stuff being more or less stand alone crime dramas.

I think Arrowverse got to be more than I was willing to keep up with so I dropped it.

Comics ignore continuity all the god damned time. Fox isn't trying to world build towards some big set piece movie, so slightly contradictory time lines is a ok with me.
 
D

darkhunger

Member
MadLaughter said:
If people think that MARVEL is bad at integrating their TV/movie properties, I expect Fox to be even worse. Article says it's "produced" by the same people behind Legion, but I have zero faith they'll try to place it in either universe. Hell, they can't even have their own movie canon line up in a meaningful way.
Click to expand...

The X-Men universe is large enough for spinoffs to not have to connect too much to the main storylines. Just look at Deadpool. There's a ton of stuff that they haven't touched yet, they just need to stop focusing on the same characters and making their histories super complicated in doing so.
 
Jag

Jag

Member
I don't really like "on the run" shows. It gets exhausting. I think TV comics needs to stay true to the basic comic hero/anti hero/villain formula. Legion sounds fantastic, Gotham is great, Shield, Arrowverse, all good. Shows like this and "Powerless" by DC i just don't see making it.
 
B

Brian_FETO

Banned
Of all the things to complain about, we're really going to complain about continuity here?

Not like.....if it's good or not?
 
T

Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!

Member
What is it with these companies not wanting to put their big characters on tv? An x-men TV show would be awesome. I dont understand it. WB does it too. A Batman TV show would be way better than whatever the fuck Gotham is
 
F

Father_Brain

Banned
FWIW, the creators have implied that this is much more closely tied to the "X-Men universe" than Legion is. Though I'm more than fine with Legion being its own thing.
 
S

Sesha

Member
guek said:
Does Fox have the rights to Molly Hayes?

I guess I shouldn't worry since a Runaways show is still technically in development at Marvel.
Click to expand...

Marvel has the rights to Molly, I think, but they probably can't call her or her parents mutants.

SpaceWolf said:
Ego the Living Planet, if I remember correctly.
Click to expand...

I thought they got Ego in exchange for letting Fox make changes to Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
 
D

darkhunger

Member
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku! said:
What is it with these companies not wanting to put their big characters on tv? An x-men TV show would be awesome. I dont understand it. WB does it too. A Batman TV show would be way better than whatever the fuck Gotham is
Click to expand...

Because an X-Men TV show would be too expensive and time-consuming to produce, with their powers and what not.

TV shows require characters that don't need a lot of choreography, excessive makeup/props, or expensive visual effects, and can carry the show without a lot of action scenes or expensive set pieces.

Even Agents of SHIELD had to chop down their budget significantly for the current half of this season, because they blew their budget on CG for the Ghost Rider in the first half, and that's just due to one character with average 5 minutes of CG per episode.
 
Jag

Jag

Member
Sou Da said:
Really weirded out that they're still avoiding doing a school show. Seems like easy money.
Click to expand...

It's been the basis for the movies. If they are following the MCU formula, they will keep the movies and TV fairly separate. Even though some MCU minor characters cross over (Coulson being the most prominent).
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

The Gifted |OT| Mondays on FOX at 9/8c
6 7 8 9 10
451
36K
milamber182 replied
Drew Goddard To Direct/Write ‘X-Force’ With Deadpool
2
75
6K
ratcliffja replied
  • Locked
Rumor(?): Gore Verbinski To Direct ‘Gambit’ With Channing Tatum At Fox
0
671
LordOfLore replied
'X-Men' Spinoff 'Gambit' Sets 2019 Release Date
2 3
110
8K
itwasTuesday replied
Jessica Chastain in talks for X-Men: Dark Phoenix villain; Kinberg to direct
3 4 5 6 7
344
19K
Hesh replied
Top Bottom