What Happens To Gifted After Disney Contract

There's been plenty of talk of what the 20th

Century Fox and Disney merger could mean

for the X-Men movies. But what about X-Men

television?

Two X-Men television series debuted in 2017.

Legion airs on cable network FX, while The

Gifted airs on FOX. Both will see second

seasons in 2018.

Could the merger mean big changes for The

Gifted? ComicBook.com spoke to showrunner

Matt Nix ahead of tonight's season finale. Nix

said the merger likely won't affect Season

Two since the deal still needs to go through

regulation. Looking past that, he broke the

question down into two parts. The first is what

the merger could mean behind the scenes.

"We do find ourselves in a sort of odd position

in being a show that was co-produced by two

different companies that under this merger

would now be the same company. So, that's

good," Nix says. "The thing that would really

change our lives and really change the show a

lot would have been if Marvel wasn't involved,

you know what I mean? The fact is Jeph Loeb

is an executive producer on the show. We talk

to Jeph Loeb all the time. He's weighing in.

So under a merger, barring lots of executive

changes or something, we're talking to the

same set of people, only they have a slightly

different role in the corporate structure. For

us anyway, we're already pretty much doing

things in a Marvel way."

The other half of the equation is how the

merger could affect things on the screen. 

A merger with Marvel could change The Gifted's

position in relation to other projects,

particularly the movies. It could also affect

what intellectual properties the show is able

to play with.

"The other side of it would be the way that

our show kind of echoes and reflects what the

movies are doing," Nix explains. "It remains to

be seen, in a universe where priorities around

shared universes are different, how that

relationship will evolve. So it could be, it's like

a whole new set of people and it's like a

whole new set of attitudes and it's a whole

new way of doing things. And we look at how

Agents of SHIELD does things. That's a

different deal. So that's that company."

"And then the other question would be, and

these are questions that are just completely

unresolved at this point is, what would this

mean for our access to certain kinds of

characters, or storylines, or that kind of

thing?" Nix adds. "And that would just have a

lot to do with what would the merged

companies plans be for the movies and do

they see our show as a potential support for

that? That would be my vote, right? Or do they

see our show as something that just really

needs to stay out of their way? Or somewhere

in between."

Nix says he doesn't want The Gifted to imitate

the movies, but he would like to establish a connection.

"Does that give me the opportunity to come in and say like, ‘Hey, let me set something up for your movie or let me echo your movie in some cool way.’ And if I could do that then that would be neat, because I'm generally just

guided by, as a fan, what would I want to see?

And what would I want? As a fan, I don't want

my TV show to do the same thing that my

movie is doing. But at the same time, I don't

want my TV show to be just like, you know,

completely unconnected or just totally the

bastard stepchild of what my movies are doing

either. So, I'm going to push for not bastard

stepchild but also not trying to do the movies

on television because I think both are bad

ideas."

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