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Fox Definitely Wants A X-Men Series

hawkwing43hawkwing43 Member Posts: 1,701 Arc User
edited January 2015 in Ten Forward
Ok now my question is, what story will they use as a jump off point?

oh, and what X-men will star in the show?

Yes it's going forward, if Marvel/ Disney ok the project Fox wants to do, so this isn't a rumor more like wait and see what happens next. You can read more about it here.

http://www.tvinsider.com/article/191/fox-confirms-theyre-planning-an-x-men-series-after-months-of-speculation
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  • moonshadowdarkmoonshadowdark Member Posts: 1,899 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    No, Fox wants a Hugh Jackman series. Hugh Jackman The Series. Starring Hugh Jackman.
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  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited January 2015
    Frankly, I'd want the original team: Cyclops, Beast, Angel, Jean Grey, Iceman, Professor X. We need at least a season to build the team in the eyes of the viewers without Wolverine being fully present, or he's quickly going to overshadow the whole team.

    I say "fully" because I'd bring in the second round of X-men (Wolverine, Colossus, Storm, Banshee, Sunfire, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird) towards the end of a set period of time. I'm going to say the season end. That way, like in the comics, the second string is revealed just before the season's end as an assembled strike force meant to free the first string. Season 2 Ep 1 plays out that rescue. (I'd rather the villain be something other than a living island, though. That's a little too over the top for me)

    During season 1, the audience is teased by repeated cameos and bits and pieces of backstories of the second team as they slowly unfold events that will draw them all together. That way, Wolverine is left as a carrot dangling before the audience, much as the question of who is the Joker is talked about on Gotham, or what Professor Wells is all about is driving The Flash fans nuts.

    I'd also not keep the lesser known members of the second team, Sunfire and Thunderbird, lest the budget grow too big or the writing too broad trying to cover a large ensemble. Then begin rotating the roster, removing some for a time (like Jean Grey via the Dark Phoenix saga) and bringing in all the other popular characters for a time: Rogue, Bishop, etc. I'd save Gambit back for a while, teasing his entrance, and bringing him in at the moment I rotate Wolverine out for a spell, so that Wolvie doesn't overpower the show. Gambit has often been named the second most popular X-men, and might soothe those souls that want 24/7 Wolverine.
  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    The second team was Darwin, Vulcan, Petra, and Sway. :P
  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited January 2015
    organicmanfred wrote: »
    The second team was Darwin, Vulcan, Petra, and Sway. :P

    Curse you Ed Brubaker and your meddling 30-year-after ret-con! :P

    *places left hand against his temple and waves the right hand* These are not the X-men you are looking for...
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,478 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    The first Thunderbird was only an X-Man for like a year or so, though. He gave his life to bring down some supervillain or other whose name I can't be bothered to remember (a Baron something, as I recall), after deciding he was useless because he wasn't as strong as Colossus, or as good at tracking as Wolverine - he wasn't the best at anything, so he needed to "prove himself". (And it somehow never occurred to Prof X, the telepath, to explain that while he wasn't the best at any one thing, he was the only one who could do so many things. Charles could be a bit of a jerk sometimes.)

    His little brother, who went by Thunderbird as a Hellion but has since rebranded himself as Warpath, is a little better-adjusted.
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  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited January 2015
    jonsills wrote: »

    His little brother, who went by Thunderbird as a Hellion but has since rebranded himself as Warpath, is a little better-adjusted.

    I stopped collecting nearly 2 decades ago, but I remember Warpath. I liked him on Cable's team going toe-to-toe with Juggernaught. Too bad that one was drawn by Rob Liefeld.
  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    steamwright wrote: »
    I stopped collecting nearly 2 decades ago, but I remember Warpath. I liked him on Cable's team going toe-to-toe with Juggernaught. Too bad that one was drawn by Rob Liefeld.

    Joined the X-Men and Wolverine's X-Force, was a wallpaper afterwards and is now browsing the world or so.
  • paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    hawkwing43 wrote: »
    Yes it's going forward, if Marvel/ Disney ok the project Fox wants to do, so this isn't a rumor more like wait and see what happens next. You can read more about it here.

    That could be the big sticking point here. As pointed out toward the end of this article, Marvel's been distancing itself from X-Men, and is canceling the Fantastic Four comic outright, because it signed away the film rights to those series in the years before Marvel's movie division was a thing. Now that it is a thing, Marvel doesn't want to be competing against itself.

    Inhumans, in particular, is expressly meant to be Marvel's wholly-owned successor to the X-Men franchise, and I can't imagine Marvel is keen to see the first Inhumans film (still almost four years away) upstaged by another new X-Men project. Marvel may not be able to outright block Fox from going ahead with the series, but I wouldn't put it past them to try and sabotage it.
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited January 2015
    What are the chances they could afford any of the main characters from the films for it? We're just going to end up with a cast of minor characters and maybe Rogue and Iceman (The only two I can think of who have done TV work, maybe Vinnie Jones).

    It's not a bad idea, it's just the X-Men films don't have the same exposure the MCU ones do, there's only been a new X-Men film every couple of years or so since 2000, whereas Marvel has at least two a year.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,706 Community Moderator
    edited January 2015
    Fox? Wants a series? LOL

    Yea... it will last 1 season and get canceled, if that.
    They HAD a series with a big name actor, and they canned it. Almost Human, staring Karl Urban. Show lasted one season before they canceled it. And they also canceled Firefly years ago.
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  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,943 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    artan42 wrote: »
    What are the chances they could afford any of the main characters from the films for it? We're just going to end up with a cast of minor characters and maybe Rogue and Iceman (The only two I can think of who have done TV work, maybe Vinnie Jones).

    It's not a bad idea, it's just the X-Men films don't have the same exposure the MCU ones do, there's only been a new X-Men film every couple of years or so since 2000, whereas Marvel has at least two a year.

    in fairness, the original cast is getting long in the tooth and most won't want to go for a TV series. it's an all new cast or nothing.. personally I would like to see any future X-men project without wolverine.
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,478 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    personally I would like to see any future X-men project without wolverine.
    I have to agree. I'm hoping (but not holding my breath) that the comics will continue without that overblown Mary Sue, since they finally had the guts to kill him off, even if just temporarily. I'd like to see any X-Men TV project to not even mention Wolverine.
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  • crabbycabbycrabbycabby Member Posts: 127 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    personally I would like to see any future X-men project without wolverine.

    Seconded. No offense to either the actor or the character, but the X-Men movies have been Wolverine movies from the beginning.

    I would really like to see the stories of the original X-Men filled in and expanded. Like where did the money come from to fund the school? Hmmm sounds like Warren Worthington III might be a bigger player than just a cute pair of wings. Or what happened to Henry's original mutation suppression serum? Or the story of Morph (the one from the comics, not the animated thing). Dozens of others I can recall off the top of my head.

    So much rich ground to draw from, and no one is willing to just plant that seed...
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  • pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Looks like they want a "Madrox" style XFactor reboot series.

    Since Multiple Man is one of my favorites, and that reboot did well, I think it would be ok.

    Since Fox won't want to reinvent the wheel and will probly mimic "Gotham's" success, it will be CSI:X

    I am hoping I am wrong....

    Not that I don't like Gotham, that has just never been the "X-Men" I have known and loved.

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  • primar13primar13 Member Posts: 1,896 Bug Hunter
    edited January 2015
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    "Gotham's" success,



    bahahahahaha
  • taylor1701dtaylor1701d Member Posts: 3,099 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Comic book heros are making their way to television more then ever.
    Think of it, hundreds of stories ready at the writers disposal. They'll never have to think again. Its almost as easy as reality television to produce.
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I'll say Gotham surprised me despite watching its ratings decline steadily, and the fact it was renewed for another season.

    But then again Fox also renewed Empire, so I'm not really sure if they're making smart decisions or just paying off the right critics.

    If there is an X-Men series I'd prefer it to be about Charles Xavier and Magneto pre-X-Men. The prequel and the sequel to the third movie that was also a sequel to the prequel and the sequel to the prequel to the Wolverine spin-off of the sequels...

    Yeah... I could do with less of that and more on the journey of Xavier and Magneto without needing to cram it into a feature-length movie.
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,478 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    crabbycabby wrote: »
    ...where did the money come from to fund the school?
    Imagine the advantage you'd have being a telepath on Wall Street.

    A "Madrox" style reboot? I don't recall X-Factor ever being led by an off-brand Oreo cookie. (For a while, "X-Factor Investigations" was under the leadership of Jaimie Maddox, the Multiple Man, though, before they sold out to Serval Industries.)
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  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Now that they included Elixir in Wolverines, and Wolverine's body stolen, he will sooner or later have his comeback.
  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited January 2015
    jonsills wrote: »
    Imagine the advantage you'd have being a telepath on Wall Street.

    Exactly. And Charles isn't the shiny knight on a white horse that he tries to portray. Messing with Wall Street for the greater good would be an easy moral hurdle compared to some things he's done. Not only reading the minds of Wall Street, but potentially altering them as well. Shoot, he could even "ask" several billionaires for start-up funding, and they'd "willingly" deliver. I imagine that's how he's able to rebuild the mansion on occasion and get a tunnel system built underground as well. Just wipe the workers minds when done. He probably also used his power to acquire the initial blackbird blueprints for Forge to customize.
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