What Happened to MUTANT X (2001-2004)?

Ever wonder what happened to Mutant X? In this Joblo original video, we dive into the history of the TV show Mutant X from 2001-2004. We'll explore the rise and fall of the hit TV series based on Marvel's mutants. In the year 2000, Fox studios proved that audiences were ready for live action outings of our favorite comic book heroes with the release of X-Men (2000). On the heels of that, famous Marvel fun-sucker Ari Arad created Mutant X, a super-charged television series running from 2001-2004 and follows a scientist and four of his mutants as they try to survive and outsmart the government. The series stars Victoria Pratt, Forbes March, Victor Webster, and Lauren Lee Smith and bares almost no resemblance to the source material, other than capturing the soapy, dramatic interpersonal relationships of teenage mutants in a VERY dangerous world.

00:00 Intro
01:40 Explaining the show
05:00 behind the scenes drama
06:00 Series Recap / Development

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[UltraInstinctBattousai]

A tv show who's people don't have cable....

[DCMarvelMultiverse]

Lex Luthor assembles supermodels to fight Andy Warhol.

[Faction.Paradox]

The Ultimate "we have X-men at home"

[anthonyedmondpinckney]

I love Mutant X and I really miss this show. I would look forward to seeing it every Saturday.

[elvisoneil]

It was better to have this than no live action show like it. 11 year old me enjoyed it enough. Thanks JoBlo

[Tsunade]

Definitely loved this show as a kid, Mutant X, Xena, Cleopatra 2525, Hercules, Beastmaster, Farscape, Sliders, Star Trek Voyager... every single one informed my adolescence 😂 wouldn't change a thing!!!!

[wordyblerd]

It was fun. Xena's wire work was cartoonish too but I loved it.

[BigMob]

Yep, used to watch this, NightMan, & Legend of the Seeker.

[PastaSauce.]

The thing is… back then for comic books lovers we really didn’t have many live action properties. So we just took what we could get.

I really do think the studio got their money back on this as it still airs on random TV channels now.

[raym]

I always thought that the "Evil Jeremy Irons" looked more like Andy Warhol.

[kalgrove]

I only watched it for Victoria Pratt and Lauren Lee Smith 😂

[Cazu_Orddu_Medea]

This and The Lost World (1999-2002) left me miserable after those finals...

[darkangellew]

Im sorry but you're looking at the show with 2024 eyes! At the time this show was amazing, obviously now we've come along way & can see it for what it was but its got a special place in ALOT of peoples hearts! The nostalgia I felt when I saw the title & I loved anything mutant related (xmen or otherwise) since you think as a kid how amazing it would be to have such powers hahahaha oh how life turns out ay lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[XXXI]

Mutant X and The Gifted are my budget friendly guilty pleasures

[Raphentei]

George Buza is also the voice of Beast in both X-Men TAS and X-Men 97' !!

He also had a cameo in the first X-Men movie as the truck driver who lifts Rogue to the bar Wolverine is at at the beginning of the movie

[trevormurphy]

This is what I’ve been waiting for for a while rewatch the show twice so far this year Amazing how the show started and then became awesome

[GantzGeo]

Omg you just unlocked a memory, I used to watch this on sky one back in the UK. What a time. I was a kid then now a 31 old year man. 😂 Time flies and memories return.

[meiketorkelson]

All those models-turned-actors in skimpy outfits and it had a "dedicated fanbase"... who knew? 😅

[simplysteve]

Yeah, Mutant X was actually suposed to be about X-Factor (which was launched in 1986), with Havok leading them (loosely based on that early 90s comics run), when Cyclops, Jean, Beast, Angel and Iceman (the 5 original X-Men members and founding X-Factor members), rejoined the X-Men, as Havok, Polaris, Wolfsbane, Strong Guy and Multiple Man took over the team.
Then the writers decided that the X- Men were too large of a group, so they created the Yellow/Blue teams, which were then split between the Uncanny X-Men (launched in 1963 as X-Men then later added "the Uncanny" part), and the newly launched 3rd X-title "X-Men" issues, and The New Mutants got rebranded, then relaunched as "X-Force", for the 4th X-titled comicbook in 1990.

[wstine]

This show felt more like GEN 13 than the X-MEN.