I know it's pretty unlikely, but I'm surprised that after all these years Marvel hasn't tried pushing for a live action X-Men TV series (and no, Mutant X does not count because it is not related to the comic series of the same name). Given how many characters are in it, you'd think a prime time TV series would be a perfect format to tell the story through. Something similar in tone to the movie series could probably work out quite well on a TV budget. What do you guys think?
Bah, Heroes ain't no substitute for the real X-Men. Instead of all these superhero-themed shows, wouldn't it be kick awesome if we could actually get a real superhero show on prime time for a change?
At least a New Mutants show. Even without using the actual characters from the original New Mutants comics, you've got a wealth of former (and current) Xavier students to choose from.
Production values seem like they would be a serious problem and would limit what you could do, but aside from that, I think it could have some potential, since a major part of X-Men is drama.
I posted some stuff about my idea on some other threads.
I think, like Smallville, if they add some rules (like no costumes, of sorts) then it would work.
Smallville, Buffy, Heroes, shows like that can do so much with special effects now a days that I don't see why they can't have a live action X-Men TV series (or a new live action Hulk series, or a live action Spider-Man TV series, for that matter)
a TV series would give the characters, and story-lines, more time to unfold and evolve.
some of my ideas
Season One:
Xavier starts his school for Mutants which includes Scott Summers, Jean Gray, Hank McCoy, Bobby Drake, and Warren Worthington III. (Or Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Ice Man, and Angel.) Their costumes are school uniforms.
Their main enemies in season one are Magneto, his Brotherhood, Senator Kelly, and the Sentinels.
Just like Buffy in season one, the main cast is small. But in the coming seasons it grows and changes.
Season Two:
Xavier expands his school, enrolling Pietro Rasputin, Logan, Ororo Munroe, Kurt Wagner, John Proudstar, Sean Cassidy, and Shiro Yoshida. Shiro leaves, Proudstar is killed, and Kitty Pryde joins in.
Their main enemies this season, Mystique and her new Brotherhood, Senator Kelly, Magneto, Sabertooth, Sentinels, etc.
The Terminator TV show got away with some larger robots, but they tended to only be on screen for seconds. They could always cheat it and just show large shadowy outlines and the bright eyes.
The Terminator show also didn't have mutants displaying powers to fight those robots. They have a budget. Using money to show spectacular powers would then take out of the pool for doing other things like showing a 50 foot tall robot fighting them. Not to mention, making parts of the robot practical would be expensive. It could be done if their budget was big enough, but then you get into will it look good or not. I don't think they would show sentinels.
As for the Sentinels, I was going for the classic comic book robot look but with a realistic TV budget. That is why they are like the Cybermen on Doctor Who. They are actors in elaborate Sentinel costumes. That also goes along with how the Sentinels looked in the early comics. They are big, but not giants. But in this show they could be human size.
I don't think they technology would be at the point, in the show, where they can make human looking Sentinels. Maybe in some future episode or something we can see that the Sentinels are like Terminators or something, human looking. (I think future episodes could be cool. I designed a future Mimic for one.) But Not this early in the show, in my opinion.
Characters like Beast would probably never show up because of the amount of money it would take to have make up on a character all the time. Forget about Nightcrawler. The stuff they went through to make him in X2 would never be replicated for a tv show.
Characters like Beast would probably never show up because of the amount of money it would take to have make up on a character all the time. Forget about Nightcrawler. The stuff they went through to make him in X2 would never be replicated for a tv show.
Shows like Star Trek and Farscape had plenty of characters with extravagant makeup and they didn't particulalry have big budgets.
I think the biggest issue as noted above, is that major battle scenes will need to be "hero-ised" to make it work on a television budget. Or they keep the battles to a minimum and make it more of a show about morals and saving cheer leaders and...oh wait...
Shows like Star Trek and Farscape had plenty of characters with extravagant makeup and they didn't particulalry have big budgets.
I think the biggest issue as noted above, is that major battle scenes will need to be "hero-ised" to make it work on a television budget. Or they keep the battles to a minimum and make it more of a show about morals and saving cheer leaders and...oh wait...
It could be a show, like Buffy and Smallville, and Heroes, in terms of how they show the action.
And make it a show about issues like Hatred, racism, bigotry, sexism, HIV (Legacy Virus), Reverand Stryker saying condemning Mutants on live TV, and issues like that. Not to say it should be a convoluted soap opera or anything. It should be what the X-men have always been about,
Mutants, protecting a mankind that fears and hates them.
Sometime between Season One and Season Two, Hank accidentally mutates himself further. (Possibly while trying to cure himself.) His body becomes covered in blue fur. His fur covers his entire body, even spots where it just seems like blue skin, there is a tiny thin layer of blue fur.
Beast's entire body is coated in blue fur. Not blue skin.
Ron Perlman as Beast in the TV Series Beauty and the Beast.
Its possible to make him look like the Beast.
Most of the first season, however, he would look normal (just big) through most or even all of the first season.
During Season two or three he would look like the Beast, and during that time he could wear clothing to help with that, long sleeves, jackets, things like that. With occasional scenes where he is wearing only shorts.
but what with the new arrivals, it wouldn't be unreal if maybe Hank went on to a University like Harvard.
I know it's pretty unlikely, but I'm surprised that after all these years Marvel hasn't tried pushing for a live action X-Men TV series (and no, Mutant X does not count because it is not related to the comic series of the same name). Given how many characters are in it, you'd think a prime time TV series would be a perfect format to tell the story through. Something similar in tone to the movie series could probably work out quite well on a TV budget. What do you guys think?
I think it could work. Plus, they wouldn't need a big budget (check Wolverine Origins--big budget, incredibly crappy effects) so.. yeah, I'd watch it. Unless they turn it into a soap opera, Smallville-style
it would probably do best if it went with something like the Academy X route, with younger characters in school. Would bring in a teen demographic particularly. They could handle the classic x-men as either the ones going to the school or being recruited to the school, or as adults in the school training and recruiting the young ones.
if they went with the latter route, backstories could be told via flashbacks or something.
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