Marvel TV Head Excited About the Future of the X-Men TV Universe
With Noah Hawley's Legion in the works and set to release early next year, Marvel and Fox revealed last month that another X-Men TV project was in the works from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix. And Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb is beyond excited.
“As an X-Men fan, and ultimately, what Matt — the showrunner and creator — brings to it is that the X-Men are always stories about family. That's where they start, that's where they live. It's about understanding how we deal with each other.
“It's about parents that don't understand what's wrong with their kids, it's about kids that don't understand their parents. And he understood that. He got it." The series is untitled and very little is known at this stage, although it seems it is replacing the Hellfire series that Fox pursued before a number of its writers jumped ship for 24.
“We haven't really been able to tell everybody what the whole story is,” Loeb said. “They'll be able to see it, and when they do, it'll be really clear why those characters were chosen, where they are going, and what's going to happen.”
FOX Television’s CEO Dana Walden teased the show’s directions by saying, "It’s about an average family who encounters this extraordinary world and children who have mutant powers and they end up on the run, so it’s a little bit underground railroad in terms of a storytelling spine.”
Expect it to air in the 2017-2018 TV season.
Source: Comicbook
