THE GIFTED Showrunner Matt Nix Weighs In On The Possibility Of A Third Season

THE GIFTED Showrunner Matt Nix Weighs In On The Possibility Of A Third Season

The Disney + Fox merger combined with the launch of Disney+ has put a lot of fan-favorite Marvel TV shows on the chopping block. The fate of The Gifted remains unknown but could be revealed fairly soon...

By MarkJulian - Feb 10, 2019 05:02 PM EST
Filed Under: The Gifted
Source: SYFY
Uncertain times are abound for Marvel Television.  Luke Cage, Daredevil and Iron Fist have all been canceled by Netflix due to the launch of the Disney+ streaming platform and it's only a matter of time before The Punisher and Jessica Jones suffer the same fate.  Even more recent, was the news that season 3 of Legion would be the last.  

There's also the fact that with the merger looming and Disney+ preparing to launch in late-2019, there's a ton of uncertainty about shows rumored to be in development like Ms. Marvel and Moon Knight. The Winter TCAs already saw the in-development, all-female Marvel superheroine show at ABC nixed.

The Gifted showrunner Matt Nix admitted that there's even an air of uncertainty around his own production while addressing the crowd at the Winter TCAs.

"I guess the bottom line is, and I can speak for everyone who works on the show, we’d love to do it again," said Nix when asked about the potential for a third season. 

However, he quickly implied that enthusiasm for a third season would erode if the Disney + Fox merger resulted in any hard boundaries being placed around the show's creative process.  "...In conversations I’ve had with my writers, everybody feels the same way, which is nobody would want to come back to terms that made it impossible to do a good show, and frankly we wouldn’t say yes to that. But the reality is that shows evolve."

The 13-episode first season of The Gifted debuted on Fox back in October 2017.  A 15-episode second season premiered on September 2018 and will conclude on February 19, 2019.  Fans of The Gifted likely won't have to wait too long to discover whether the February 19th episode was a season or series finale.
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HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 2/10/2019, 11:18 AM
To me this actually sounds a bit pessimistic about the show returning for a third season.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 2/10/2019, 5:42 PM
The show kind of won me over by midway though the first season, but (having some time since then and not felt inclined to watch the second yet), I'm a lot less interested in seeing more of it.

It's probably the best X-thing salvaged from the Singerized franchise since the first movie (yeah, I don't really like Days of Future Past or Logan, don't @ me), but it still doesn't quite have that spark to it. This and Legion were both ~2/3rds of the way to genuinely great adaptations, but they fall short for me.
MUTO123
MUTO123 - 2/10/2019, 6:00 PM
JDL
JDL - 2/10/2019, 6:03 PM
Imo do one more with a proper conclusion.
Battabing
Battabing - 2/10/2019, 6:54 PM
Nah, let's call it.
Time of death....
nikgrid
nikgrid - 2/10/2019, 9:31 PM
This show is awesome, shame it's being put down.
JDL
JDL - 2/11/2019, 1:03 AM
@nikgrid -It's hard to see any X-Men property going past 3 seasons given the current state of mutants. Until it gets "fixed" story selection is severely limited and that gets boring.
FoxForce5
FoxForce5 - 2/10/2019, 11:20 PM
I think Legion and The Gifted are the best X-Men properties to date (in my humble opinion) and it's a shame to see them both go (weather or not The Gifted gets a third season send off) but if that's the price to pay for the X-Men in the MCU, so be it.
Argetlam22
Argetlam22 - 2/11/2019, 12:00 PM
This series is honestly better than 80% of the Xmen movies. I hope they get at least a 3rd season to wrap things up properly.
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