'X Men' TV Series 2014 in 'Deep Development'

Superhero films have been popular for the past decade and a half: we've seen "Batman," "Superman," "Spider-man," "Captain America" and the "Avengers," and "X-Men" on the big screen, raking in millions of dollars after all.

But lately, more and more superheroes are maintaining their appearances on the small screen, and not as cartoon characters, either. Thanks to shows like "Arrow," "Agents of SHIELD," as well as "Gotham" and "The Flash," superheroes have a solid fan base for television.

This is probably why Century Fox is in "deep development" for a brand new, live-action "X-Men" series. At least according to Bleeding Cool. 

It may be just hearsay, considering that the website did not care to give more information, but EatGeekPlay.com's Shawn Madden took the news to Twitter to stoke the fire, posting, "Okay, since the cat's out of the bag...Fox is developing a TV show based on Peter David's 'X-Factor.' The X-Factor series will definitely feature Jamie Madrox and be sort of like 'Fringe' in the 'X-Men' world'. I'm going to be the first to label what I stated earlier as a rumor and will be first to admit if it's wrong. Fingers crossed it's right."

Although word of the "X-Men" live series is more rumor than news at this point, it may not be too far off. "X-Men: Days of Future Past" producer, Simon Kinberg, has said that an "X-Men" TV series is possible and logical.

He told Screen Rant a few months ago, "It makes sense to tell some of these stories in TV partly because there's just not enough screens to do all these characters, and also because the serialized format of comic books is better suited for TV."

He also added, "every week you come back to the same characters different story, and in comic books every week it's the same characters, different story."

The biggest problem in figuring out how to make this project come true is the budget. Kinberg said, "I think what [Fox is] seeing now is with the proliferation of new kinds of visual and special effects, there's a way to make these stories that doesn't cost $300 million every time you have to make a huge movie."

As for confirmation of the plans for the TV show, Business2Community.com predicts that it will be addressed as early as in the New York Comic Con later in the week.

Fingers crossed that the mutants will be in our weekly list of shows to watch? What do you think?