Here’s How Fox’s New X-Men Shows Will Fit In With The Movies

While it may have been very different than the kind of X-Men story everyone is used to, Legion on FX became one of 2016’s biggest breakout hits. This fall, the TV roster for the characters is growing even more, with The Gifted set to debut on FOX.

With these X-Men properties gaining notoriety on TV, fans are beginning to wonder if they’ll find a way to tie into the movies. According to one of the film producers, you shouldn’t get too excited about the idea.

During an interview with Screen Rant, Hutch Parker was asked about the connection between the X-Men movies and TV shows. He didn’t specifically say they weren’t connected, but he made it pretty evident that was the case.

“They’re more of their own thing. I think they’re designed really to, again, part of what I think has always been compelling about the X-Men Universe to me is, it is about individuals grappling with the degrees and ways in which they’re different from the society in which they live. That as an idea allows you, you can follow any one of countless characters in the universe and have a completely idiosyncratic experience, right? A completely unique story. I think what’s great about what they’ve been doing in TV is they’re finding those nooks and crannies and characters and new articulations or expressions of those issues and exploring them in a series format. So without being specifically tied, they’re another way in which the [X-Men] Universe is getting expanded.”

For Legion, this is no surprise. The FX series was a complete departure from the films in terms of style and tone. The Gifted however, feels very much like an X-Men movie property. Hopefully, this just means that we can see an entirely different universe built with the X-Men characters on TV.

The Gifted will air Mondays at 9 p.m. ET on Fox beginning in the fall.

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The Gifted tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers.

Reed (Stephen Moyer, Shots Fired, True Blood) and Caitlin (Amy Acker, Person of Interest, Angel) Strucker are typical middle-class parents dealing with the realities of raising a family. However, when their teenage kids, Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind, Gotham) and ANDY (Percy Hynes White, Night at the Museum 3), are involved in an incident at their high school which reveals they are mutants, Reed and Caitlin do all in their power to protect their children. Forced to go on the run, the Struckers must leave behind their old lives to flee from a relentless government agency that tracks down mutants, the Sentinel Services, which includes Agent Jace Turner (Coby Bell, Burn Notice). Complicating matters further is the fact that Reed is a prosecutor in the district attorney’s office tasked with going after mutants.

Desperate and running low on options, the family’s only choice is to contact an underground network that helps mutants in trouble. The mutants in the network – Eclipse / Marcos Diaz (Sean Teale, Reign), Blink / Clarice Fong (Jamie Chung, Gotham), Polaris / Lorna Dane (Emma Dumont, Aquarius) and Thunderbird / John Proudstar (Blair Redford, Satisfaction) – are dealing with their own issues. With one of their members in prison and their team possibly compromised, they face an uncertain future in a world that looks increasingly dangerous for mutants.