Sequels X-Men Live-Action TV Show in Development at Fox

[SuperT]

Plus, it is a lot more expensive to set a TV show in the past.

Uh, got any information to back that up because I hardly think that's anywhere close to being true.

 

[HIA]

logic, basically. In a present time show, any set is valid, (public locations, any city, any street...) so the work is easier, while on a period show, they cant choose any set/location with modern things, so they'd have to clean it, change stuff...... so this means putting some money to get that work done.

 

[Cherry]

As someone else stated, most of the OT actors have done or are currently doing television. The lines between TV and movies are becoming blurred as far as star power. I could easily see Storm showing up for an episode to enlist the services of X-Factor. Cyclops shows up for another. Obviously they wouldn't be regulars, but James Marsden is all over TV and film these days, and Halle Berry's Extant just got renewed for season 2. I'm sure they'd be happy to show up once or twice. Heck, even Ian McKellen is doing television. Famke Janssen, Shawn Ashmore, previously Anna Paquin, all on TV. Michael Fassbender or Jennifer Lawrence, though? They are just too big right now.

 

[Cherry]

Uh, got any information to back that up because I hardly think that's anywhere close to being true.

I've worked on plenty of sets. It is much more difficult to shoot a TV show on location when everything has to be converted to look like a different time period. Imagine shooting in New York City present day. Now imagine shooting in New York City but switching everything out to set the time period back 25 years. A lot more work.

EDIT: Oops, HIA already explained it pretty well.

EDIT 2: Let me add, as well, that a lot of my job was grunt work for producers. This is a very real hurdle that is always a concern on television. With movies, you have a bigger budget and only 2 hours to fill. TV is lower budget and 13-22 hours to fill. Much, much different

 

[HIA]

Great points, and nice to know you work on this industry

 

[psylockolussus]

Yeah, making a TV show set in the past is more expensive, I mean the sets, the costumes, the cars, the hairstyles.... they would need to pay more attention to the details of the sets to really embrace the look of the 80s or whatever period that they are in.. But if it is set in the present, its less work. Also, they could take advantage of the product placement more if the show is set in the present, I mean just with the latest gadgets and products.

 

[Mr.M]

Yeah a show with the OT popping in and out is not gonna happen, even as teachers cameoing here and there shown to be mentoring new students. I think they will want to explore the beginnings of the mutant phenomenon and the early pandemonium and hysteria that sets in after 1973, leaving much of the now sequestered mutant populace coming to terms with their place in this new society. In all likelihood, it will be set after 1983 otherwise it may be a little anticlimactic leading into a movie like Apocalypse, which will be released prior to any live action show forthcoming. It's not going to be some far future, brand new team that has to face new threats, because the budget would simply be too high to do that justice on television, and you really don't capture the crux of the X-Men thematically, doing some far flung spinoff like that.

To me, this should be a late 80's/early 90's show. I am weary about including the original X-Men as weekly TV characters, but I don't think Xavier's school and his primary students have to be the focal point. You could focus on mutants around the world, and personal stories. I still think Xavier and the school needs to be involved, moreso than simply a backdrop akin to Arkhum Asylum in the ongoing Gotham adaptation.

 

[Cherry]

Great points, and nice to know you work on this industry

While I do have some experience, I have no information whatsoever about X-Men. I wish I did though!

Yeah a show with the OT popping in and out is not gonna happen,

Maybe, maybe not. I've heard plenty of people say <insert any number of fanboy certainties here> is never going to happen, and it does. Everyone said the original cast was done after The Last Stand was over, and look what happened. Even now the producers are saying they could come back eventually.

Just because you don't want it&#8230; you can't say for certain. If James Marsden can show up in Modern Family, 30 Rock, and potentially Westworld; Ian McKellen in Vicious; Halle Berry in Extant; Anna Paquin in True Blood; Shawn Ashmore in The Following; Famke Janssen in Hemlock Grove, how can you possibly rule it out? Heck, Marvel even got Samuel L. Jackson to cameo in Agents of SHIELD. Television is not perceived the same way it used to be.

It just irks me how often people proclaim what is or isn't going to happen when the truth is&#8230; none of us know!

 

[pavlov]

i wanna see young Xmen like Rogue, Bobby, Kitty on the the small screen

 

[psylockolussus]

An appearance from the OT characters could definitely create more buzz and hype especially if the ratings of the spin-off show does get lukewarm ratings, I think the producers/the network would consider throwing the familiarity card by having one (or more) of the OT characters (if not the 70s characters) to appear in the show.

And by the way, I'm staying tuned for news if the announcement for this show will happen in this week's NYCC.

 

[HIA]

Yeah a show with the OT popping in and out is not gonna happen, even as teachers cameoing here and there shown to be mentoring new students. I think they will want to explore the beginnings of the mutant phenomenon and the early pandemonium and hysteria that sets in after 1973, leaving much of the now sequestered mutant populace coming to terms with their place in this new society. In all likelihood, it will be set after 1983 otherwise it may be a little anticlimactic leading into a movie like Apocalypse, which will be released prior to any live action show forthcoming. It's not going to be some far future, brand new team that has to face new threats, because the budget would simply be too high to do that justice on television, and you really don't capture the crux of the X-Men thematically, doing some far flung spinoff like that.

To me, this should be a late 80's/early 90's show. I am weary about including the original X-Men as weekly TV characters, but I don't think Xavier's school and his primary students have to be the focal point. You could focus on mutants around the world, and personal stories. I still think Xavier and the school needs to be involved, moreso than simply a backdrop akin to Arkhum Asylum in the ongoing Gotham adaptation.

contradictory points, I see. You say a show in present time with some original cast cameos isnt going to happen, then you say Fox wont use a whole new team, since that would be expensive, later you say the school and Xavier should be involved, on the past.... so do you mean James McAvoy would be involved?

That would be the same story as original cast cameoing. James wont be on both movies and the tv show, no way. So Fox has no other option than to actually use a new team as the show leads. Whatever the time period is. Pietro could be the lead, but there will be a bunch of new mutants leading the show too.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

I hope it's like Hannibal with a long series long story that progresses each week.

 

[Mr.M]

contradictory points, I see. You say a show in present time with some original cast cameos isnt going to happen, then you say Fox wont use a whole new team, since that would be expensive, later you say the school and Xavier should be involved, on the past.... so do you mean James McAvoy would be involved?

That would be the same story as original cast cameoing. James wont be on both movies and the tv show, no way. So Fox has no other option than to actually use a new team as the show leads. Whatever the time period is. Pietro could be the lead, but there will be a bunch of new mutants leading the show too.

Xavier would have to be recasted playing a character in his 50's. You're right that it is probably not realistic for the cast to cross over from the movie to TV medium. So I don't expect the supporting cast in Apocalypse to star in a network TV series. Could you bring em' in later if the series takes off and that cast is affordable? Highly unlikely.

My first season would unfortunately not be about the X-Men itself. I would like to see Xavier and the school involved as a fan, but I don't think you can do all those characters justice on TV. I am also weary of the budget for a production set in the far future with overpowered mutants. Eventually you can do spinoffs like that, but I honestly think the best story telling and a starting point for a live action TV series would be best served set in the 70's/80's focusing on the beginnings of the mutant phenomenon.

 

[x-fan]

i think the original five, as teens in school would be an awesome show, I really don't care what is going on in the movies, different medium.

 

[Pauln6]

Watched episode one of Gotham tonight. Good fun. You can see how an X-men show taking elements of this plus Smallville could build into something interesting without needing to be too special effects heavy. I'd definitely be up for a teen X-men franchise. I'm less bothered by the spin-offs because I'm less interested in the characters but I suppose I'll get on board with whatever they come up with.

 

[Mr.M]

i think the original five, as teens in school would be an awesome show, I really don't care what is going on in the movies, different medium.

I agree. If they adhere to continuity, you could even set it in the original timeline, to avoid conflict with any upcoming movies in the franchise. It would be very enticing to see an X-Men Evolution type of series. Unfortunately, if I were a producer at Fox, I would not want to tarnish my brand by watering down A-list characters to weekly television. I'm VERY conflicted about involving Xavier and the X-Men. I'd like to see the X-Men make cameos, especially if they can lure in the cast from Apocalypse in a season 2/3 two part finale, but the show would have to be a massive hit, almost GoT levels, for that to be realistic. Obviously I think they'd have to focus on some minor mutants, with a reoccurring heavy hitter villain, like Sinister or Stryker. You would need at least one "A" list X-Men to carry the series, simply to maintain the "X-Men brand". You could focus on X-Men before they become X-Men, like Colossus, Angel, and now Rogue in this new timeline. You could not feature Scott/Jean/Storm assuming they appear in Apocalypse and everything takes place in the same universe, because then it gets a little too "marquee" for a limited budget network TV series... Netflix or subscription TV perhaps, and it can work.

 

[pavlov]

Only a high-budget mini-series will do for me.

 

[x-fan]

no cameos no big name actors, recast everyone, again different medium

 

[x-er]

no cameos no big name actors, recast everyone, again different medium

I don't think they would want to do that. To compete with Marvel's shared universe, they need to keep things consistent and combine casts between films and tv shows.

 

[marvelrobbins]

This show will likely be like agents of Shield only this time the regurals are comic book characters.It will be part of DOFP post contunity bet on it.

 

[psylockolussus]

So are we still gonna get an announcement from NYCC?

 

[HIA]

isnt the Convention over?

 

[BMM]

Yeah. Ended this weekend.

 

[Dasher10]

Just for the sake of being practical, by the time this airs, it'll be set in in the 90s at the absolute earliest. More than likely, X-Factor will feature the OT cast making guest appearances while the films play catch up.

 

[psylockolussus]

So the report of a NYCC announcement was false. Ugh.

I'll keep my hopes down now.. well until Fox officially announced it.