‘X-Men ’97’: Eric Lewald Says Brad Winderbaum Wants 10 Seasons Of Hit Mutant Animated Series

“X-Men ’97” is finally back on Disney+ has Season 2 debut eariler this month and the mutant-focused show is becoming one of the most crowd-pleasing Marvel Studios properties on the streaming service and there is certainly a demand for as many episodes the studio is willing to animate/release (we already know that they’re up to Season 4, in the development and outlining process).

And if Marvel Television‘s Brad Winderbaum gets his way (most likely), the show is going to keep going for much longer than I think fans might be expecting.

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“Brad’s [Winderbaum] bursting up and down and you know he wants to do 10, and we want him to do 10. We want eight years from now to be having more conversations like this about season 10. With 60 years of comics and all these characters…there’s really no limit,” Eric Lewald said to POC Culture of the show’s planned future in a recent interview.

This new season resurrects OP mutant supervillain Apocalypse and introduces a new generation to a more comic book accurate version of X-Force (do your best to ingore the live-action version in “Deadpool 2“) that has Cable, Psylocke, and Archangel among the lineup. If there were ever an animated mutant team that could get their own spinoff show, that could be it, given they’ve been given their own awesome introduction.

We’ll also keep our fingers crossed, at some point, during these next eight seasons that Marvel Television brings back Alpha Flight (maybe Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy will attempt to bring them to the MCU down the line) after the Canadian mutant group had appeared in the original Fox Kids series.

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The Playlist also got to talk to the “X-Men ’97” team such as Lewald, Julia Lewald and Larry Houston, as part of our own coverage of the new season, and you can read that here.