Ny X-men serie skal kædes sammen med filmene

Burn Notice-skaberen Matt Nix har udviklet en ny, indtil videre unavngiven, X-men TV-serie, og han talte for nyligt med en håndfuld journalister, om sine planer for showet. To af de vigtigste ting, som han afslørede, var, at serien er tæt på at blive virkelighed nu, og at den skal kobles sammen med X-Mens filmiske univers:

Without getting into specifics that I'll get murdered for, I would say that a fan of the movies — particularly the movies but also the comic books — would not be disoriented as to where this fits in the mythology. If you look at the movies that take place, they don't all line up perfectly. So it's not like I'm slavishly fitting myself into a particular slot [but] if you like that world and the world of the movies, there are definite nods to it, it definitely exists in the same general universe.

Han fortsætter derefter med at forklare, at koblingen mellem serien og det filmiske univers kommer til at fungere på samme måde som med den nuværende serie Agents of Shield, og hvordan denne passer ind i Marvels omfangsrige filmpulje. Nix talte også om, hvordan han solgte serien og dens koncept til netværket:

Without getting into specifics, it's sort of designed to side-step questions like 'Where is Wolverine?' So you sort of have to answer those questions, and I didn't want to do anything like 'Wolverine is just offscreen!' You know what I mean. So it exists in a world where those questions are answered without needing to name a lot of names or spend time dwelling on that issue. So within that, there are a certain amount of those characters I can use, and I'm using some of those, but others I'm inventing. But everything is invented with a nod towards the existing mythology. When I was pitching the show, I pitched some characters that appear nowhere in the mythology, but the guys from Marvel, when I started describing them, all gave each other knowing nods. It was like 'Oh I see what he's doing, yes.' So I tried to do a lot of that. I didn't want to get into the realm of too much 'Yep! New X-Men here we go!' because with this there's a little bit of fan service.

Der findes lige nu ingen oplysninger om, hvilke muterede karakterer der skal medvirke i den kommende X-Men serie, men vi ved, at de kommer til at fokuserer på "to normale forældrer", der opdager, at deres børn har mutant-gener. Tvunget til at flygte fra den fjendtlige regering, slutter familien sig til et underjordisk netværk af mutanter i en kamp for overlevelse.

Serien kommer til at være det første rigtige samarbejde mellem Marvel og Fox TV. Vi er naturligvis spændte på at se resultatet!