X-Men 97 showrunner talks his D+ pitch for series + 1x06 discussion
#XMen97 Spoilers ahead: pic.twitter.com/9mZ4uPTfpk
- Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) April 10, 2024
-“Lotta questions and so I'll momentarily break silence to answer,” he said. “Episode 5 was the centerpiece of my pitch to Marvel in November 2020. The idea being to have the X-Men mirror the journey that any of us who grew up on the original show have experienced since being kids in the 90s. The world was a seemingly safer place for us, where a character like Storm would comment on how skin-based racism was ‘quaint’ in One Man's Worth [the season 4 opener for the original X-Men animated series] . For the most part, to our young minds, the world was a simple place of right and wrong, where questions about identity and social justice had relatively clear cut answers.”
-However, DeMayo noted that his worldview shifted after the September 11th attacks. “Things weren't so safe anymore," he explained. "Grassroots populist movements began to rise around the world as a whole nation struggled to deal with collective trauma and fracture at the seams of every diverse demographic. The effects we still feel today, and have only been exacerbated by more collective traumas like COVID or several recessions." Read the rest at the tweet.
-1x06 dropped today and lets discuss!
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