Of course it’s a great idea!

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Of course it’s a great idea!

October 16, 2012 by X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

Seems I’m not the only person who thinks that the X-Men would make a great tv show.

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Without the first X-Men film, I don’t think we’d be where we are as far as superhero films go. It set the bar for comic movies as box office gold and it still continues to make trucks full of cash (last summer’s X-Men: First Class made over $350 million at the global box office). There are so many mutants and storylines with the X-Men that the films Fox has been making will never touch on all of them. What if the comic book took a turn to the small screen? Given the opportunity to put the X-Men on television in live action would be a comic fan’s dream come true, especially if the show starts out solely with Xavier and the original five X-Men (Cyclops, Ice Man, Jean Grey, Beast, and Angel).

The benefits of telling the X-Men story on television as opposed to how it’s been done in the film series is planning. Many television producers and writers plan out their seasons for their shows long in advance, even when they don’t know if they’ve been picked up for another season. With this in mind, the growth for an X-Men series can be planned in advance instead of having to dance around and make all the pieces fit together (see the X-Men movie franchise). If a capable showrunner that loves the material could get a hold of this (unfortunately we hear Joss Whedon is busy), we might eventually get to see real Sentinels, the Age of Apocalypse, (real) Dark Phoenix, etc.

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They are spot on with the idea that with so many characters in the X-Men universe it’s more suited for the small screen serialized rather than a big mushed together film. I’ve got my series planned out for eight seasons with a spot for just about every character to have it’s moment (thought hopefully mixed up enough not to be the same episode just with a different guest star).

Only thing I disagree with is Sentinels (seriously? three-story tall purple robots?) and having an Age of Apocalypse would only work if you go away from the realistic theme… or allow time travel… but then it’s such a huge story in its own right they should probably back off of it or else just not do it justice.

And as an after thought, while the original team is key (I have Scott, Jean and Bobby in my core team, but Warren is not and Hank is TBD), they would need to mix it up. Bring in some of the newer characters, there is a huge base of New Mutant fans, which is why, as you’ll see in my series, there is a bunch of them who have a rather large role as secondary characters with their own sub-archs.

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X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

A series of short stories in a fictional X-Men TV Universe.