‘X-Men’ Live-Action TV Series Brewing At Fox
By Angie Han/Jan. 26, 2015 11:30 am EST
Talk of a potential X-Men show have been swirling for some time. Big-screen X-Men scribe Simon Kinberg told press last spring that he thought an X-Men television series would “make sense,” and there was a meaty rumor last fall that the network was already “deep in development” on a show.
The X-Men have been very good to 20th Century Fox. The first X-Men live-action movie, released in 2000, helped kick off the current wave of superhero films. The film series is still going strong today. The seventh and most recent installment, X-Men: Days of Future Past, was released last year, and there are three more (Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Wolverine) dated for the next few years.
Should the X-Men make it back to television, they’ll be surrounded by other superheroes. ABC has two Marvel shows, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter, while Netflix has five upcoming Marvel-based series including Daredevil, AKA Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage.
