X-Men: The Animated Series
The Big Picture Now that X-Men '97 has, for now, come to a close, Marvel Studios' first X-Men project ends its inaugural season with the highest Rotten Tomatoes critics' score of any MCU television show and any onscreen X-Men adaptation: an almost perfect 99%. X-Men '97's triumphs build upon the exemplary foundation laid by and its five-season run on Fox Kids.
"The folks didn’t believe X-Men was going to do anything," Julia Lewald explained. Fox compromised with a 13-episode season, "but that's it." Once Season 1 wrapped production, in Eric's words: “The entire creative staff was let go in July, August, when we finished our work. And then in January when it premiered, suddenly it was this big number one hit.
Related Marvel Studios Needs To Follow 'X-Men '97' With 'Spider-Man '98' The Web-head’s ‘X-Men ‘97’ appearance sparked a fire in fans that Marvel can capitalize on. Before The Animated Series, Loesch had financed Pryde of the X-Men, the first true attempt to get Xavier’s team onscreen. That pilot had gone straight to VHS instead of a series order and made interesting choices: an exaggerated Stan Lee narration, for one, and an Australian Wolverine, for another.
'' Staff Shared A Vision Close As we know, the staff's commitment paid off. Across five seasons, 77 episodes, and numerous complex storylines, stretches every penny of its budget and challenges preconceived notions about comic book metaphors and the quality of work of which children's media is capable. Together with Batman, its DC cousin, The Animated Series sets the gold standard for nuanced superhero adaptations.
Making '' Wasn't Easy 's mature approach wasn't an easy sell. "There was incredible pressure to change it around and make it younger, sillier, or give them a pet dog," Eric Sewald told The Hollywood Reporter. "Luckily, everybody on the creative side banded together and had, 'No, you’ll have to fire me' moments.
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