The Secrets Behind X-Men and Other Hits
summary
Eric and Julia Lewald describe their careers as writer-producers who developed and showran many family and youth TV series, focusing on their work creating X‑MEN: The Animated Series, subsequent books about its making, and their current roles as consulting producers on X‑MEN ’97 for Disney+. Gasti Latorre presents his background as an independent illustrator and comic-book creator with over a decade of self-published work (Jobs Comics) and examples of his portfolio.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:16First approach to X-Men
- 3:43Creating the X-Men team
- 6:53Mature themes in kids' TV
- 9:40Killing a character early
- 11:08One Man's Worth and Age of Apocalypse
- 18:12Working with Len Wein on Wolverine
- 22:20Season 5 challenges
- 25:08Avengers United struggles
- 27:57X-Men 97 revival success
- 32:33Future X-Men 97 plans
- 34:19Bringing back the team
- 36:48Easter eggs and cameos
- 40:40Beast reading Animal Farm
- 42:45Final thoughts
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