Ok with how well the smallville franchise went.

I would love for Marvel to come out with a live action tv show based on the X-men

But i want it to focus on when Scott and Jean first come to the school and go through there teens

have it where kids all over the world are dealing with there mutant powers for the first time not knowing where to turn

Any thought on how this could work out great story and great casting could be a hit

 The thing about an X-Men show is that it is expensive to do special effects for mutant powers. They tried it years ago with a Generation X TV movie that could have lead into a show, but it was terrible. Also they've got the X-Men movies, so long as those are getting made it'll be nearly impossible to do a show at the same time. Plus they'd have to move things around, people just aren't as interested in the original X-Men anymore. They'd feel the need to put Wolverine and Storm in it or something.
 
Now a live action X-Factor Investigations show.....now that I'd watch.And fewer dollars spend on special effects since most of them have 'invisible' powers. Madrox, Banshee, Monet, Rictor, Shatterstar, Layla, Longshot, even Strong Guy it's only when you get into Wolfsbane's morphing that you gotta spend real money.

I don't think a live action x-men show would ever work at least not one about popular characters such as Jean, Scott, Bobby, Rogue, Hank, ect... Not because its a bad idea but because popular X-men will be saved for the movie franchises and possible solo movies

Rather they just do another kind of X-Men: Evolution or Wolverine and the X-Men... I wish they did not cancle it. :(

@PrinceIMC said:

Now a live action X-Factor Investigations show.....now that I'd watch.And fewer dollars spend on special effects since most of them have 'invisible' powers. Madrox, Banshee, Monet, Rictor, Shatterstar, Layla, Longshot, even Strong Guy it's only when you get into Wolfsbane's morphing that you gotta spend real money.

That would be an amazing show if done well!

I'd love to see a live-action X-Men TV-series in the vein of recent scifi/fantasy series with large casts & reasonably large budgets such as Lost, True Blood and Game of Thrones. In fact, I'd rather have a well-written X-Men TV-series than a string of movies because I don't think that any theatrical film could capture what I like the best about X-Men, which are the large and colourful cast of characters and the gradual character evolution (i.e. from Jean Grey to Phoenix, from Rogue the rogue to Rogue the field team leader & from boy scout Scott to Cyclops the leader of the mutant nation). In my opinion, the feature film format isn't the perfect fit for a franchise like X-Men largely because there isn't enough time for the sort of in-depth character developement I think it deserves.

@PrinceIMC said:

The thing about an X-Men show is that it is expensive to do special effects for mutant powers. They tried it years ago with a Generation X TV movie that could have lead into a show, but it was terrible.

You know, I'm not sure whether that would be a problem. American TV has gotten so much better both in quality and with production values since the day Generation X was made. TV used to be the great wasteland of entertainment, but in the past ten years well-written & well-made shows like Sopranos that have gained both critical appraisal and a large following have changed the way the audiences and the networks view TV. There's definitely still a lot of low-budget junk out there, but also some great, well-financed shows with visionary creative teams. Also, Lost has paved the way for mainstream big-budget scifi TV-series, and Heroes lasted for several seasons - and that show was basically a half-baked X-Men rip-off with clunky dialogue, stupid plot twists, clichéd concepts and uninteresting characters. If they did it, why couldn't there be a live-action X-Men TV-series? Why not give the real deal a go?

I don't think that the mandatory special effects deem X-Men too expensive for television. It might rule out or limit the appearances of characters whose powers would be too costly to depict properly (Beast, for example, would be difficult to pull off because there really is no cheap and easy way of doing that make-up & costume), but it's not like there aren't hundreds of characters in the franchise to choose from. Sure, no TV-series can afford to pull off the kind of spectacular action scenes they've had in the movies, but who says that the hypothetical TV-show should be all about going on space adventures & destroying famous landmarks in elaborate CGI sequences? It could be a character-oriented show like Lost with a strong emphasis on drama, character developement and mystery plots. I think that focusing on the characters and laying off some of the goofiest scifi/fantasy aspects of the franchise (like the aforementioned adventures in space) would also make the hypothetical show more approachable for mainstream audiences, which would make the show more marketable and therefore justify a big budget & multiple seasons.

Overall, I do think that X-Men would make a fantastic live-action TV-series, if granted reasonable production values and a talented creative team. I think the biggest obstacle standing in the way of a live-action X-Men series is that the movie franchise is still up and running. However, I don't think that a live-action TV-show has any chance of being made any time soon because the movie series is currently still in production. In the meanwhile, I'm hoping that they continue making animated adaptations of X-Men. So far, I've enjoyed them all more or less (excluding that awful Hulk vs. Wolverine movie, which was pure garbage).

I think a X-men live action series tht was handled well could be the best possible non-comic media for the X-men it would alow propper charecter developments and an ampel home for the many sope opra like moments in X history but i doubt that they'd do it let alone that it would go over well with non comic fans

 
@Thunderscream: 

What if it focused on the some of the New X-Men since the movies are revisiting the origins of oldschool characters?

Hellion (as is)

Surge (reinterpreted just as a speedster, at least in the beginning)

Mercury (reinterpreted as a metamorph)

Rockslide (reinterpreted as a strong guy with a more human appearance)

Prodigy (powers in tact)

Elixir (minus the gold skin)

@Kairan1979 said:

And X-23 reinterpreted as...? Because New X-Men show doesn't make sense without X-23.

She's basically Wolverine...I wanted to leave any remnant of him out. Not that I'm a Logan hater, he's just too big of a character for an ensemble cast...and so would be his clone.

- It would be a very hard sell to get an X-Men live-action series off the ground

1 - The budget would be enormous if you were to have a significant sized cast (with cameos) and actually showed off their abilities enough to satisfy the fans. A superhero show where they rarely use their powers to save money is DOA.

2 - The money issue limits the number of networks that would potentially take the risk and/or have a blank check book. HBO or Netflix would be the only ones willing to give it a shot (IMO).

3 - Fans familiar with some of the bigger names they saw in the movies may not accept the (likely) lesser known actors cast in their place.

Speaking of Smallville, anyone remember that Birds of Prey show? ...........*cricket cricket* lol

Im just ready for a Lego X-Men game. They've got Lego Batman, Pirates, and so on, Why not Lego X-Men?

@riri4life said:

Speaking of Smallville, anyone remember that Birds of Prey show? ...........*cricket cricket* lol

Ohhh, that show was so bad. Sadly, it was my first introduction to the concept of Birds of Prey. I remember seeing it way before I got into comics and learned that BoP was actually a pretty well-written & popular title.

There have been many failed attempts of superhero TV-series - Birds of Prey being one of them - but I don't think that the problem is that superhero shows simply don't work on TV. The problem is that those shows all had awful, awful scripts that included childish plotlines, horrible dialogue, and one-dimensional characters that couldn't have seriously appealed to anyone over the age of eleven. I guess the networks often fail when they expect that a superhero show will be interesting to audiences simply because they're superhero shows and that no additional effort needs to be put into the creative side of the production, but the thing is that only idiots are going to enjoy shows that treat the viewers as idiots. In order for a live-action superhero TV-show (like the hypotehtical X-Men series) to be worth the money and trouble, it would have to appeal to an audience wider than one consisting merely of kids and comic book fans.

I think Lost is a good example of a scifi show that succesfully won both the critics, the scifi nerds, and the mainstream audience over because it took its characters and audience seriously. One of the reasons Lost became so widely popular was because the characters came always first, even though there were all sorts of fantastic elements invovled ranging from implied superpowers to time-travel. The show had a mysterious premise that eventually gained scifi/fantasy elements, but it became more than a mere cult favourite of scifi fans because the characters in it were (most of the time) well-written and genuinely relatable, and the show kept its focus on character developement and drama. If a live-action X-Men series ever gets made, I hope they'll follow the Lost format of focusing on the stories and relationships of the characters rather than taking the Birds of Prey route of cartoonish action & exaggarated characterizions.

@MyraMyraMyra said:

@riri4life said:

Speaking of Smallville, anyone remember that Birds of Prey show? ...........*cricket cricket* lol

Ohhh, that show was so bad. Sadly, it was my first introduction to the concept of Birds of Prey. I remember seeing it way before I got into comics and learned that BoP was actually a pretty well-written & popular title.

There have been many failed attempts of superhero TV-series - Birds of Prey being one of them - but I don't think that the problem is that superhero shows simply don't work on TV. The problem is that those shows all had awful, awful scripts that included childish plotlines, horrible dialogue, and one-dimensional characters that couldn't have seriously appealed to anyone over the age of eleven. I guess the networks often fail when they expect that a superhero show will be interesting to audiences simply because they're superhero shows and that no additional effort needs to be put into the creative side of the production, but the thing is that only idiots are going to enjoy shows that treat the viewers as idiots. In order for a live-action superhero TV-show (like the hypotehtical X-Men series) to be worth the money and trouble, it would have to appeal to an audience wider than one consisting merely of kids and comic book fans.

I think Lost is a good example of a scifi show that succesfully won both the critics, the scifi nerds, and the mainstream audience over because it took its characters and audience seriously. One of the reasons Lost became so widely popular was because the characters came always first, even though there were all sorts of fantastic elements invovled ranging from implied superpowers to time-travel. The show had a mysterious premise that eventually gained scifi/fantasy elements, but it became more than a mere cult favourite of scifi fans because the characters in it were (most of the time) well-written and genuinely relatable, and the show kept its focus on character developement and drama. If a live-action X-Men series ever gets made, I hope they'll follow the Lost format of focusing on the stories and relationships of the characters rather than taking the Birds of Prey route of cartoonish action & exaggarated characterizions.

That was my first intoduction to BoP too! lol It was very corny, but had it's moments.

I agree w/ that u said though. It's very difficult to get a sufficient audience for these types of shows and a lot of producers don't wanna take the risk b/c too often superhero shows and movies come across as campy. I think "Heroes" was the closest thing to X-men as far as a live action tv series goes...but I never watched it so I can't say much about it.

@riri4life said:

@MyraMyraMyra said:

@riri4life said:

Speaking of Smallville, anyone remember that Birds of Prey show? ...........*cricket cricket* lol

Ohhh, that show was so bad. Sadly, it was my first introduction to the concept of Birds of Prey. I remember seeing it way before I got into comics and learned that BoP was actually a pretty well-written & popular title.

There have been many failed attempts of superhero TV-series - Birds of Prey being one of them - but I don't think that the problem is that superhero shows simply don't work on TV. The problem is that those shows all had awful, awful scripts that included childish plotlines, horrible dialogue, and one-dimensional characters that couldn't have seriously appealed to anyone over the age of eleven. I guess the networks often fail when they expect that a superhero show will be interesting to audiences simply because they're superhero shows and that no additional effort needs to be put into the creative side of the production, but the thing is that only idiots are going to enjoy shows that treat the viewers as idiots. In order for a live-action superhero TV-show (like the hypotehtical X-Men series) to be worth the money and trouble, it would have to appeal to an audience wider than one consisting merely of kids and comic book fans.

I think Lost is a good example of a scifi show that succesfully won both the critics, the scifi nerds, and the mainstream audience over because it took its characters and audience seriously. One of the reasons Lost became so widely popular was because the characters came always first, even though there were all sorts of fantastic elements invovled ranging from implied superpowers to time-travel. The show had a mysterious premise that eventually gained scifi/fantasy elements, but it became more than a mere cult favourite of scifi fans because the characters in it were (most of the time) well-written and genuinely relatable, and the show kept its focus on character developement and drama. If a live-action X-Men series ever gets made, I hope they'll follow the Lost format of focusing on the stories and relationships of the characters rather than taking the Birds of Prey route of cartoonish action & exaggarated characterizions.

That was my first intoduction to BoP too! lol It was very corny, but had it's moments.

I agree w/ that u said though. It's very difficult to get a sufficient audience for these types of shows and a lot of producers don't wanna take the risk b/c too often superhero shows and movies come across as campy. I think "Heroes" was the closest thing to X-men as far as a live action tv series goes...but I never watched it so I can't say much about it.

Heroes was basically X-Men without all the spandex, except that the characters were mostly lame, the story arcs were uninteresting, and the dialogue was corny. It's incredible how much that show ripped off the themes and concepts of X-Men. Having people with superpowers isn't exactly an original idea, but I think Heroes crossed a certain line by going on about how people with powers were a result of evolution (and completely misunderstanding how evolution works while they were at it), by building up a social conflict between humans and people with powers, and by having characters who had the exact same powers as famous X-Men characters. The main difference between it and X-Men was that the people with powers didn't put on costumes and form a crime-fighting unit.

The show wasn't entirely bad - there were exactly two characters I found genuinely likable & interesting who made me tune in every now and then - but I wouldn't say that it's worth a watch for reasons stated above. However, I think that the show did establish how a show about superheroes can become appealing to the mainsteam audience (as opposed to being only appealing to a small cult following). Heroes did focus on the characters and their normal lives & how they were affected by the discovery of their powers, so it was a drama series first and the scifi/action aspect of it came second. Not everyone can get into a scifi-centric series, but most viewers can get into a show with relatable characters and intriguing drama.

it would have to be really well done. Look what happened with Gen X -_-

@MyraMyraMyra: That's what I've heard about Heroes...smh

..and that's exactly why I don't think we'll be seeing another comic related (live action) tv series for a while. I mean. they couldn't even get Wonder Woman off the ground...but that's a whole other story.

I'll settle for Young Justice for now. ....and of course the classic Batman TAS, X-Men TAS, Evolution, etc. :)

@ramj said:

it would have to be really well done. Look what happened with Gen X -_-

yea, it was a total flunk

I guess no one remembers Mutant X either...

Animated or get on the big screen!

I've been thinking about this lately and maybe will can get a live-action t.v series. Maybe after the first class trilogy is over, we can get one running. Budgets are really expensive like the others said. We can have colossus and beast but it would have to be a one time guest appearance. Their effects are really expensive.. We would have to limit our cast to 5 people. It could be wolverine,angel,gambit,storm, and jean grey. I want wolverine in the show but I don't want him to hog the spotlight like the writers made him did. .Mystique and Magneto should be villains in the story but they should stay in the side-lines. The x-men DO have others villains and not just those 2.

The first season should be human-mutant relationships and their antagonist should be humanity and magneto.Maybe after 3 or 4 episodes, we can have the morlocks opposing the x-men. I love to see this with live-action .

After every new season of the x-men we can have a brand new cast to take the five central protagonist's place.

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I say they go along the lines of Young Justice. They have a winning formula that appeals to not just kids and don't focus on a single to character too much. I'm not saying replicate Young Justice with the X-Men model, but make it more young and fresh. Maybe follow the early X-Men with a few additions. Usually we're following the X-Men in their adult life in the cartoons. I want to see sort of a "before they were famous" sort of thing.

@RogueOracle said:

I say they go along the lines of Young Justice. They have a winning formula that appeals to not just kids and don't focus on a single to character too much. I'm not saying replicate Young Justice with the X-Men model, but make it more young and fresh. Maybe follow the early X-Men with a few additions. Usually we're following the X-Men in their adult life in the cartoons. I want to see sort of a "before they were famous" sort of thing.

Wasn't that basically what X-Men: Evolution was all about?

@MyraMyraMyra: True, but it was too high school for me and lacked a serious tone.