Leave The TV Shows Alone
What’s preoccupying most of our thoughts at the moment is what Disney will do with the X-Men movie franchise, but an interesting question is what about the TV universe that Fox has just started building over on the small screen? In 2017, both Legion and The Gifted have arguably proven to be two of the strongest additions to the X-Men universe we’ve had yet. So, it would be a great shame if Marvel’s machinations ended up shutting these down.
Looking at the evidence, though, the shows will hopefully continue for the foreseeable future. For one thing, they won’t have any trouble adjusting to life under Disney as they were already co-produced by Marvel Studios, in what was a unique deal back then. And, as we’ve heard many times when fans have asked for the Defenders to meet the Avengers, Marvel’s TV arm operates independently from the movie division. So, any changes to the film series might not affect the direction of the TV shows.
Fingers crossed that we’re right about this one. In fact, let’s hope Marvel having complete control of the future of the X-Men on TV means there will be many more shows to come.