Fox Wants To Bring X-MEN To TV
After a long period where it seemed like Fox just had no fucking clue what to do with their X-Men franchise they may have finally figured it all out. There's a new movie coming that is being sold as the end of a trilogy, there's talk of an expanded universe of characters and there may even be some transmedia action - the studio is looking to bring mutants to TV.
That's sort of a no-brainer if you ask me. Few comics are as perfectly suited for TV as X-Men - it's a soapy story about special kids who live together at boarding school and occasionally get into superbrawls. One complaint I've had about the seven X movies so far is that nobody has been playing softball, as they often did in the classic Chris Claremont days. A TV show could give the team plenty of recreational time, and give individual characters lots of room to breathe.
What's great about the X-Universe available to Fox is that they could pick from many, many great characters and even a couple of potential team names. I'd watch The New Mutants or Generation X. The question is whether this show would tie into the films (whose continuity is already a nightmare anyway) or live on its own, as the DC shows mostly do.
Which X-Men would you want to see on a TV series?