{"id":31122,"date":"2015-10-15T09:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=31122"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:41:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:41:35","slug":"two-x-men-shows-in-development-and-marvel-get-fantastic-four-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/two-x-men-shows-in-development-and-marvel-get-fantastic-four-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel and FOX Are Developing Two Live-Action X-Men TV Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the huge response to Marvel<\/strong><\/a> and Sony<\/strong> making a deal<\/a> to share Spider-Man<\/strong><\/a>, Fox is jumping in on the action and partnering with Marvel to expand the X-Men<\/strong><\/a> universe.<\/p>\n

How, you ask? With two live-action TV shows! Yup, you’re going to get mutants on your TV screen week after week. Cue the Hallelujah chorus.<\/p>\n

The first show will air on Fox and be called Hellfire.<\/em><\/strong> In Marvel’s official announcement<\/a>, they describe the show as following:<\/p>\n

Set in the late 1960s, the series — which will be produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Marvel Television, with 20th Century Fox handling the physical production — follows a young Special Agent who learns that a power-hungry woman with extraordinary abilities is working with a clandestine society of millionaires \u2013 known as \u201cThe Hellfire Club\u201d \u2013 to take over the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emma Frost, Emma Frost, Emma Frost.<\/p>\n

“We are thrilled to partner with Marvel to bring this world to television and build upon the vibrant mythology that has captivated fans for years,” says David Madden, President of Fox.<\/p>\n

Patrick McKay and JD Payne will write the pilot and script and big names from both sides, such as Jeph Loeb (head of Marvel Television) and Bryan Singer (X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse<\/em>), will executive produce.<\/p>\n

The second show, titled Legion,<\/strong><\/em> will be part of FX family and Marvel<\/a> describes the show as:<\/p>\n

The story of David Haller: Since he was a teenager, David has struggled with mental illness. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he\u2019s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the comics, Haller is the son of X-Men founder Charles Xavier and a very powerful mutant who can absorb other people’s psyches and manifest their powers.<\/p>\n

Noah Hawley (Fargo, Bones<\/em>) is tapped to write the script and once again, people like Loeb and Singer will executive produce.<\/p>\n

And despite rumors, the Fantastic Four also still remain at 20th Century Fox.<\/p>\n

Are you looking forward to watching the X-Men on television? Which show are you most excited about? Sound off in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the huge response to Marvel and Sony making a deal to share Spider-Man, Fox is jumping in on the action and partnering with Marvel to expand the X-Men universe. How, you ask? With two live-action TV shows! Yup, you’re going to get mutants on your TV screen week after week. Cue the Hallelujah chorus. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,388,558,109],"tags":[888,3145,1868,210,112,3431,3432,122,703],"yst_prominent_words":[15156,20852,9850,8083,8036,9748,17874,26554,26552,26551,26557,8072,11311,26556,26553,6073,26555,6017,8121,6355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64556,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions\/64556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31122"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}