Expect more mutants on the small screen, because FOX has ordered an X-Men TV pilot from director Bryan Singer and Burn Notice's Matt Nix

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Variety reports the X-Men show will follow the parents of a mutant. With a hostile government in place, they will join an underground resistance to keep their family alive and together.Nix is set to write the pilot, and he recently chatted with IGN about the X-Men show's connection to the movies . If the untitled series is picked up, it would join Legion as the second X-Men show on the air.Singer and Nix are both executive producing the X-Men pilot, along with Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory. Last year, Loeb expressed his excitement for FOX's X-Men show with IGN. Marvel and FOX originally teamed up for Legion and this untitled X-Men show back in 2015.

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