After a long two-year wait, X-Men ’97 will return in July with its long-awaited second season. We finally got our release date along with the new trailer for season two, which continues on from the iconic X-Men: The Animated Series. But fans of Marvel’s mutants have even more to rejoice about, as we now know that X-Men ’97 will have not only a third season, but also a fourth as well. And the wait between seasons won’t be more than a year, unlike the last time. All of this was confirmed in an interview with X-Men ’97 executive producer Larry Houston in Entertainment Weekly. Here’s what he had to say:
They want everyone to know it’s only gonna be a year now between seasons, not two-and-a-quarter years. It’s gonna be a year until the next one and a year until the next one [after that]. They are on schedule now. One of the reasons they’re on schedule is we’ve gone over, given notes on, responded to not only all the scripts for season 3, all the animatics for season 3, we are in season 4 giving script notes. So that’s how deep they are into the development.
Houston also said nothing is stopping Marvel Television from doing a fifth season, and even more after that. X-Men ’97 co-producer Eric Lewald, in the same interview, said, “There’s a commitment until our grandchildren have grandchildren.” Houston and Lewald, along with his wife Julia Lewald, are all veterans of X-Men: The Animated Series. Look, we’d be happy with the traditional “six seasons and a movie.” But we’ll gladly take more.
With an upcoming farewell to the Fox-era X-Men in Avengers: Doomsday, an MCU X-Men reboot following Secret Wars, a possible Deadpool and X-Force movie, and X-Men ’97, we may be entering into a new Golden Age for Xavier’s students on screen. And it’s long overdue. They’ve taken a backseat to those Avenging people for long enough. X-Men ’97 season two drops on Disney+ on July 1.