Originally published January 14, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
In a few short weeks, Marvel is set to launch its new TV series Legion, but it’s not the only X-Men series in development as Marvel and Fox are also working on another project from writer and producer Matt Nix (Burn Notice), and now we’ve got some info on the potential show.
According to Deadline, Fox and Marvel are impressed with Nix’s script and are closed to picking it up to pilot. It apparently revolves around “two ordinary parents who discover their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.”
Speaking at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, Nix has also revealed that the project will be set in the same universe as Fox’s X-Men movies, and will feature some familiar faces from the universe:
“A fan of the movies but also the comics would not be disoriented at all as to where this fits in the mythology,” said Nix. “If you look at the movies, which take place from — they started in 2003 to now — they don’t all line up perfectly. I’m not slavishly fitting them into a particular slot. But at the same time, if you like the world of the movies, there are definite nods to the movies. It exists in the same general universe.”
“It’s designed to sidestep questions like, ‘Where is Wolverine?’,” he continues. “You have to answer those questions. I didn’t want to do anything where it’s like, ‘Wolverine is just off-screen.’ It exists in a world where those questions are answered without needing to name a lot of names or spend a lot of time dwelling on that issue. Within that, there are a certain amount of [familiar] characters that I can use and am using and then other characters I’m inventing — but everything is invented with a nod toward the existing mythology.”
