If X-Men were to come to television in real life form (not as animated), which storyline do you think would be best to use? Not neccesarily your favorite, but which one could translate best to tv . Next choose your actors and give them parts (don't flood the thread with images of them), pick a network, and a director . Take control, design this show . Make it as practical/realistic as you can .

Smallville-styled New X-Men tv show.
Don't add Rockslide (he doesn't work on live TV), or make him as "rocky" version of Colossus (there was a similar character in old Mutant X show). Make it X-23, Cessily and Sooraya versus Wind Dancer, Surge and Wallflower, with Hellion, Rockslide, Elixir and the others stuck in the middle.
Emma Frost as a headmaster plus several teachers. NO Wolverine (it's too expensive to add Jackman to the cast).

The original New Mutants would translate nicely. They worked with a relatively low-tech Danger Room, psychic powers from Moonstar & kama would be easy nt he special effects budget, Wolfsbane would be played by a girl and some well trained wolves, Cannonball's blast field would be easy enough to blur around him... they'd just have to adapt Sunspot's solar flare effect in a different manner.

@Kairan1979: Not really. Besides, it's better to take an otherwise unknown character and avoid using more popular names to boost the popularity. By now, everyone knows who Deadpool is, but I don't think he would transition well to television. I personally like the idea of a show about Cable, Slym and Redd in the future. I said this before on another thread, but I liked the set and feel of Dune and Children of Dune. I don't know who directed them, but they were masterpieces in my mind. Seeing Stryfe become who he is would be interesting.

X-Factor Investigation of course!

X-Factor Investigation of course!

If X-Men were to come to television in real life form (not as animated), which storyline do you think would be best to use? Not neccesarily your favorite, but which one could translate best to tv . Next choose your actors and give them parts (don't flood the thread with images of them), pick a network, and a director . Take control, design this show . Make it as practical/realistic as you can .

I'd like 3 shows please. All in one universe.  
1) X-Factor, with investigation like oldgum said. Realistic cases, mostly about a team who kills mutants and people under mysterious circumstances
2) X-Force, with Domino, Cable, Fantomex, Deadpool, X-23, Wolfsbane and it will be about a brutal team who kills evil mutants and people to save mutankind. They will be the killers X-Factor will hunt.  
 3) Generation Hope, a team of young mutants who by mistake killed a politician and now they are hunted by X-Force and X-Factor will try to find them and protect them because they know they are not villains. Some storylines are depended from the budget. If the budget was big, we could see how Cable came to our timeline and what his motivations are, how X-23 was created (Wolvie, where are you?) and other things. What's your opinion? I suck, right?

X-Factor Investigation of course!

bring in x-force. cable, warpath, siryn, sunspot, rictor, shatterstar, boom boom, cannonball, moonstar, domino
have them fight gideon and the original M.L.F.

hmm something of it's own storyline with a couple of the actual story lines (phoenix saga, days of the future past, ect.) to make the series more unpredictable. but i think they should use some of these x-men: storm, wolverine, cyclops, jean, rogue, psylocke, colossus, professor x, beast, and iceman. and they should add a couple more along the way like gambit, jubilee, angel, x-factor, moira mactaggert, kitty pryde, emma frost, bishop, ect. villans would have to be brotherhood of evil mutants, magneto, sabertooth, hellfire, acolytes, apocalypse, ect. i think that would be cool

Start off with the original team, then add more characters to the roster. Have some characters eventually quit due to ideological reasons. Throw in attacks from the Purifiers,Brotherhood, & terminator like Sentinels.  Add some in team relationships and major plot events. Then you got an X-men show.

X-Force would be really cool. A team of black ops mutants would play well on film or tv

the original ones and t takes place in the 1960s like when the comics just came out or the X-Force on HBO

                    I'd like to see the original X-Factor (with a few tweaks):Angel (team owner), "Came out" as a mutant in the public eye and promised to use his family fortune to fund a task force to detain dangerous mutants. Feathered wings, healing touchCyclops (field leader, pilot), Grew up in an orphanage, joined the military at 18 and his powers emerged in the field. He was Angel's first recruit. Optic Blasts, energy absorption/redistributionBeast (doctor/scientist) A colleague of Angel's from Harvard, who's experiments had advanced his mutation.  Blue and apish in appearance, enhanced strength & agility, enhanced senses.Phoenix (psychologist/computer wiz) A tattooed computer hacker with a myriad of mental powers caught Angel's attention when she overrode his company's state-of-the-art security system. Telepathy, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, cyberpathy, flight.Iceman (lawyer) Trusted friend of the Worthington family & legal defender (i think he should be played by a black guy. what? michael clarke duncan played king pin, jessica alba played sue storm, halle berry played storm...) Lowers temperatures, drawing moisture from the air to create ice shields, weapons and blasts. Supporting cast (X-Factor's wards watched after by the mansion's computer hologram, Moira.): Taki, Boom Boom, Leech, Rictor, Wolfsbane

                   

               

New X-Men the first season being regular coming of age teen show with it ending with a bus full of children getting... you know.

If I was made a showrunner & given a decent budget & no adult supervision, I'd make this happen:

The style of the show would be Lost with a hint of 24 and a dash of True Blood - character-oriented, suspenseful & utilizing mutants and their powers effectively as metaphors. The cast would be large ensemble (like in Lost); some characters would be more prominent than others but no character would hog all the spotlight. Similar to Lost, individual episodes would usually focus on one or two characters, sometimes (but not always) with flashbacks. Focus would be on characters - as humans, not as superheroes, so there would be no flashy costumes - just practical & unifying field/battlewear. The show would take itself and its characters seriously, so the most outlandish and goofiest aspects of the comics (aliens, magic, time-travel, alternative universes, space adventures, vampires, non-mutant superheroes, giant robots etc.) would unfortunately not make it into this show for stylistic & budgetary reasons. The mutant gene & some science fiction-esque technical devices would be the only fantastic elements of this show.

The show would mostly be about the core aspects of X.Men - the mutants' struggle for equality & for the right to exist, and the different views each character has on the situation. The social allegories (mutants as a minority/mutants as others) would be strongly emphasized. There would be some action but (partly for budgetary reasons) the tension would mostly come out of a suspenseful plot full of mysteries and moral dilemmas (a la 24).

Primary cast would include Professor Xavier, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Wolverine, and Storm as the main adult residents of the Xavier institute (here, both a school and a sanctuary/help center for mutants of all ages).Yes, yes - it's a boringly traditional line-up, but this is my fantasy series, damn it! Hellion, Cannonball, Boom-Boom, Sunspot, and Blindfold would appear as the main student characters, to a varying degree. Jubilee and Rogue would join the institute in the first episode - Rogue (a twentysomething) would act as the viewer's guide to an adult's life at the institute, and Jubilee would provide the point of view of a teenager. Later episodes would add at least Gambit, Psylocke, and Angel as recurring characters (with at least Gambit turning later into a regular). Other characters like Dazzler, Domino, Quicksilver, Cecilia Reyes, and Scarlet Witch (and maybe Beast, if my imaginary budget would allow it) would appear as guest stars throughout the series, some making recurring appearances. Kitty, Colossus, and Nightcrawler would guest star as the team Excalibur, and Morlocks and the X-Factor investigations (featuring characters from the current comic book line-up) would also appear at least once. Later seasons would see the introductions of Emma Frost, Havok, and X-23 as regular characters.

Main antagonists throughout the series would include Magneto and his Brotherhood (including at least Frenzy, Sabertooth, and Pyro), Mystique and Destiny (+ their accomplices), Friends of Humanity, the Hellfire Club (including at least Sebastian Shaw and Selene), William Stryker, Senator Kelly & Trask, and a de-camped & more realistic version of Mr. Sinister - each with their own mutant-related agendas. Dark Phoenix and Dark Archangel (though Apocalypse would SO not be in this show) would also have their villainous moments. All these groups would include several line-up changes with changes of alliance.

(As a general rule, characters who demand too much difficult and costly prostetics & make-up to look like they're supposed to look like would have limited appearance or no appearances at all for budgetary reasons. I'm trying to keep my imaginary TV-show within budgetary constrains.)

So my dream show would be a pretty basic adaptation of the series (which I understand would make it difficult to sell, considering that many of these characters have already been seen in the movie series & the animated series have covered many of the major story arcs). I'd like to see many of the classic stories being adapted into a live-action TV-series and being written well. The Dark Phoenix saga, for instance, was pretty much watered down into an uninteresting subplot of the messy X-Men: The Last Stand, and and I don't even bother to mention how Wolverine's origin story was treated in the horrific Wolverine: Origins - both of which are great arguments of why these stories should be retold in a TV-series. Of course I'd like to see the good story arcs that haven't been adapted yet, too, as well as completely original stories, but a part of me just really wants to see rearranged versions of the classic stories, too. As far as the movies are concerned, there's also been a general lack of the gradual character developement & character transformations I like so much about X-Men - which, of course, is something that simply can't be done in the movie format because of the very limited runtime - so a TV-series could get a better grasp of the characters than the movies ever could. I've liked all the animated adaptations more or less (except Pryde of the X-Men, but that doesn't count), but I'd like to see a good live-action TV-show adaptation of the comics, too.