Last in July, after having scrapped the plans for a
live-action Hellfire series, Fox announced a new X-Men show from Burn Notice
creator Matt Nix.
Speaking to the media after the TCA panel for A.P.B.,
Fox's new sci-fi crime drama, Nix told reporters that unlike the other X-Men series
Legion, his show will connect to the X-Men cinematic universe.
"Without getting
into specifics that I’ll get murdered for, I would say that a fan of the movies
— particularly the movies but also the comic books — would not be disoriented
as to where this fits in the mythology. If you look at the movies that
take place, they don’t all line up perfectly. So it’s not like I’m
slavishly fitting myself into a particular slot [but] if you like that world
and the world of the movies, there are definite nods to it, it definitely
exists in the same general universe."
However, when asked if the yet untitled X-Men series
would connect to the larger X-Men universe in the same way as Marvel's Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D. does to the MCU, Nix said no quite.
"Close. Not
exactly. In a sort of general way, it acknowledges that events like those that
happened in the movie have happened. It’s still evolving, so we’ll see how much
that comes in. But it’s certainly not like ‘since this happened X-Men
Apocalypse, now all of these things are happening,’ which I
think is cool but [S.H.I.E.L.D.] already did that."
Nix also revealed
that he would prefer the show to run for 12 or 13 episodes instead of the typical
22 or more. As for the plot, back in July, Fox and Marvel revealed that it
would focus on two ordinary parents who go on the run after discovering
that their teen children possess mutant abilities. Now, Nix adds on that
premise and reveals that "in a world where that’s the case, where mutant
kids just manifesting their powers have to go on the run, established mutants
are going to have something to say about that."
And speaking of
established mutants, Nix also talked about finding the balance between using pre-existing
characters and creating new ones.
"Without getting into specifics, it’s sort of
designed to side-step questions like ‘Where is Wolverine?’ So you sort of have
to answer those questions, and I didn’t want to do anything like ‘Wolverine is
just off-screen!’ You know what I mean. So it exists in a world where those
questions are answered without needing to name a lot of names or spend time
dwelling on that issue. So within that, there are a certain amount of
those characters I can use, and I’m using some of those, but others I’m
inventing. But everything is invented with a nod towards the existing
mythology. When I was pitching the show, I pitched some characters that appear
nowhere in the mythology, but the guys from Marvel, when I started describing
them, all gave each other knowing nods. It was like ‘Oh I see what he’s doing,
yes.’ So I tried to do a lot of that. I didn’t want to get into the realm of
too much ‘Yep! New X-Men here we go!’ because with this there’s a little bit of
fan service."
The Untitled Fox Marvel Project is a co-production of 20th Century Fox
Television and Marvel Television. Nix will write the pilot script and serve as
an executive producer alongside Lauren Shuler Donner ("X-Men:
Apocalypse"), Bryan Singer ("X-Men: Days of Future Past"), Simon
Kinberg ("Fantastic Four"), Jeph Loeb ("Marvel’s
Daredevil,") and Jim Chory ("Marvel’s Jessica Jones").
Source - Collider
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