Are the Children of the Atom mutating into a live-action television series?
Fox is getting closer to a X-Men television show.
“[For] X-Men, we’re in negotiations with Marvel. We’re hopeful we’ll be able to announce something soon. We’re not closed on a deal yet but it’s something we’re definitely pursuing,” Fox Television Group chairman and CEO Dana Walden told The Hollywood Reporter on at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour stop.
The potential live-action series is being penned by Star Trek 3 writers Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne; they will share a “created by” credit with 24‘s Evan Katz and Manny Coto, who also will serve as showrunners as reported earlier by THR.
20th Century Fox owns the rights to the film franchise (with seven features already released based on X-Men characters and more in development or scheduled including Deadpool, Gambit and even a potential New Mutants film.
Marvel owns the comic rights and still must sign off on the deal.
“The characters from the X-Men franchise are with Fox on the feature side so we won’t be including Marvel characters that are at ABC with Disney,” Walden said of how the deal with Marvel will be structured. “This will be exclusively the franchise as it has existed at Fox.”
The goal, she said, was for X-Men to be a “long-running” series.
X-Men: Apocalypse, Deadpool, Gambit films are scheduled for 2016.
Hugh Jackman’s final appearance as The Wolverine is scheduled for 2017.
No word on which characters or what era the possible television series could include.
By Editor