Those furious at how chintzy IMDb is being with details of Marvel’s live-action syndicated hour “Mutant X” will be gratified to learn there is an embryonic “Mutant X” Website up and running.
Those who caught Coax’s earlier post on the series
got a glimpse of the premise, the characters and the cast, but the series Website offers even more important stuff: who’s behind this series.
According to the site, the series’ staff writers include:
According to the site, the series’ staff writers include:
* Howard Chaykin: fiftysomething vet of the mediocre “Flash” and “Viper” series, and author of the relentlessly mediocre recent Elseworlds comic “The Secret Society of Superheroes.”
* Mark Lisson: vet of “Viper,” as well as the chillingly crappy “MacGyver,” “Hunter” and “The Scarecrow and Mrs. King.” The “Mutant X” site also lists the recent “Mighty Joe Young” remake among Lisson’s credits, but beware: IMDb indicates Lisson was credited not as a writer of this big-budget motion picture adventure, but as a co-executive producer. (The only feature writing credit IMDb gives Lisson is for 1987’s “Return to Horror High.”)
* David Newman: credited as the co-screenwriter of the first three “Superman” features. (But before you get too excited about Newman’s involvement in that superhero franchise, you might check out director Richard Donner’s comments on the audio commentary of the new “Superman: The Movie” DVD.)
* Elizabeth Keyishian: wrote an episode called “The Pact” (and perhaps others) for the syndicated adventure series “Queen of Swords.”
Here’s what the site has to say about the series’ story:
“Meddling with genetic destiny has brought humanity to a moral crossroads -- with dire consequences. Now there's only one hope for a future without fear.
“Secret experiments to produce "designer babies" began in the 60’s. They were initially successful in merely enhancing positive human traits for concerned parents. However, the scientists had not foreseen the long-term effects of their genetic meddling. Mutations appeared randomly as the test subjects aged. Mutations no one had counted on.
“These mutants are out there, and they don't know what's happening to them.
“Suddenly, normal lives are shattered when electricity begins shooting from fingertips; other people's secret thoughts come bombarding into an unprepared mind; athletic ability explodes into the grace and fury of a wild animal.
“And -- they're not alone. They're being hunted. Those who created them wish to control them and their extraordinary abilities. They want the mutants back.
“But somewhere out there is a sanctuary, a safehouse run by one of their own -- a mutant. He wants to give these confused souls the training and direction they need to control their own destiny, and he's putting together a group who can help them do just that. No matter who tries to stop him.
“The fight starts here, and it's full scale war by fall."
The site also seems to indicate that “Mutant X” emanates from Fireworks, CanWest and Tribune, the same production concerns behind “Earth: Final Conflict” and “Andromeda.”
