After nearly a dozen films, thousands of comics and one Wayne Rooney advert, the X-Men are making a return to the small screen with a new television series.
This week Variety reported Fox’s intention to bring Marvel’s mutants to television, committing to a production of a pilot episode.
Longtime X-Men movie director Bryan Singer will be onboard for the new live action project, which will apparently follow the parents of mutants who “defend a world that hates and fears them”.
Burn Notice series creator Matt Nix will be writing the pilot, that will also feature Fox filmmakers Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, and Marvel writers Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory pitching into the creative process.
Funnily enough, the new series will be the second new X-Men television show coming out. Earlier this year FX announced their intention to make an eight episode series called “Legion“, based around the son of Charles Xavier’s son (in the comics he goes back in time and kills his dad before he was born, setting off the event Age of Apocalypse. Comics are weird).
So it’s good news for superhero fans. Here’s hoping it has a opening theme song that matches the 90s cartoon series. Banging synth.
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