What doesn't make sense
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Marvel/DC
bluemooncrow — 19 years ago(May 16, 2006 03:30 PM)
If Mutant X is connected to Marvel (use of the name mutant, similar themes, Avi Arad producing it) then why did Fox sue Marvel for the X-Men movie? Fox is the company that puts X-Men films out. And even if people mistook Mutant X (and it's "originality") for X-Men, that is good, because X-Men is the most famous of the two obviously since the show borrows from teh comic. That was the only reason I watched a few of them was because I said "Hey, X-Men on TV!". Someone please tell me how does suing your own profits make sense.
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ncw2 — 19 years ago(May 20, 2006 05:27 AM)
"That was the only reason I watched a few of them was because I said "Hey, X-Men on TV!".<<
Precisely. Potential viewers associating Mutant X with the already popular X-Men was good for both the show and Marvelmaybe not so much for Fox. As Shalimar would say, "Everything always boils down to money."
On the surface, it does sound contradictory for Fox to sue Marvel over the rights to a Marvel product. And perhaps if Mutant X remained a comic book or cartoon, or if Marvel had maintained sole ownership of all of its X-Men incarnations, no lawsuit could have materialized. But by the time the television show was being created, Marvel was no longer the exclusive owner of all things X-Men. Fox had purchased from Marvel the right to create, produce, distribute and promote
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versions of X-Men as early as 1993. Therefore, as Mutant X executive producer Rick Ungar once admitted, Fox actually owns certain X-Men names and characters. Claiming that Mutant X was nothing more than a thinly veiled live action version of X-Men, Fox sued Marvel for copyright infringement when it seemed that Mutant X's producers were trying to capitalize upon the success of Fox's X-Men film without first consulting or including Fox in the show's profits. Having spent over 90 million dollars on promoting the film, Fox was not pleased that Tribune's live action show should ride on the coattails of its success for free. It was then up to the courts to determine whether a) Mutant X was indeed similar enough to X-Men to support Fox's claims and b) whether the show's existence truly constituted a violation of the earlier contract between Fox and Marvel. Hence the changes the judge ordered to Mutant X before it could air, and the urgency on the part of Mutant X's producers to distinguish their product from X-Men.http://www.firstmutant.bravehost.com
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gunderz — 19 years ago(June 16, 2006 04:40 PM)
I got the first season some weeks ago,and the first episode did not
appear as a real pilot,instead it appeared like no past or history summary.
airdate 1 October 2001 (Season 1, Episode 1)
X files,andromeda,star trek voyager,had all more like a pilot for a first
episode,anyone else who got the same feeling?
Please let me know,or i'm all wrong?
my regards to all the sci-fi lowers out there.
gunderz@online.no