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Aug 6, 2021 · Transcribed: Skye Doney. Total Time: 1 hour, 21 minutes. Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop. Sidney Iwanter biography: Sidney Iwanter, the son of Madison’s last kosher butcher, grew up in Madison’s Greenbush neighborhood, where he was captivated by his parents’ and neighbors’ stories as witnesses of and agents in significant historical ...
Sidney Iwanter is a Canadian writer and producer who worked on X-Men: The Animated Series, Flight of the Living Dead and Latin Dragon. See his biography, credits, contact info and more on IMDb.
- Writer, Producer, Additional Crew
- Sidney Iwanter
“Sidney is a passionate and innovative children's writer and content creator. We've had a number of conversations about story and the changes happening in children's content, and he inspires me ...
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To commemorate the 15 th anniversary of the premiere of X-Men on the Fox Kids Network on Saturday, October 31, 1992, Blast From the Past recently had the opportunity to interview Sidney Iwanter, the Vice President of the Fox Kids Network from its creation in 1990 up until 1998, about his role as the creative executive at the network put in charge of overseeing the X-Men series.
- Assembling The Team
- Choosing The Roster
- Writing “The Night of The Sentinels”
- Casting The X-Men
- Composing The Theme Song
- X-Men: The Animated Series Debuts
Margaret Loesch: I first heard of the X-Men as an adult in the 1970s when I met Stan Lee. I had been a comic book fan as a child but it was mostly DC, not Marvel Comics. But when I met Stan and began working with him, I loved asking him questions about how he and Jack [Kirby] came up with things. He would always give answers that were very intrigui...
Edens:One of the first things we had to do was figure out who was going to be on the team. Right away, we knew we needed Wolverine because he was the most popular character and we had to have Cyclops because he was the leader and there was a built-in conflict there. Lewald:There were a few different factors at play in determining the lineup. From t...
Lewald:The pilot is the hardest episode to write and we only had three weeks. Mark and I had been writing together for ten years so we had a shorthand, but that still wasn’t a lot of time, especially since it was going to be a two-parter. Margaret wanted something more sophisticated. She believed that, if you get something sophisticated enough, you...
Lewald:This was Fox’s show so they were in charge of the casting. The voices were done in Canada to save money and we got to hear the top four Wolverines and Cyclopses and things like that to give our two cents. I do remember it took a long time to figure it out and, at one point, they had to recast everybody because it was all too cartoony. George...
Ron Wasserman(Composer of the X-Men: The Animated Series theme):I didn’t know anything about the X-Men when I was asked to compose the theme song. When I came in, Ron Kenan, who was in charge of collecting royalties at Saban, had this idea for a baseline, which came from a song he’d done called “Piranha Canoe.” So I started with something similar t...
Loesch: The show didn't have the greatest production value. We didn't have the time or money that some other shows had, but the writing was so strong and the performances were so strong that when I saw those first two episodes, I honestly knew we had a hit. But because I had that threat hanging over my head, I did everything I could to make X-Mena ...
- Brian Vanhooker
Oct 31, 2022 · Eric and Julia Lewald, the showrunners of the acclaimed Marvel cartoon, look back at the making of their seminal series. They reveal how they introduced the X-Men to a Saturday morning audience, fought with Marvel over Sentinels and Magneto, and created memorable episodes like "Night of the Sentinels" and "Red Dawn".
Segment Synopsis: John Tortorice interviewed Sidney Iwanter, who attended UW-Madison from 1967-1971, earning degrees in history and film. Sidney was born in Milwaukee. His father was from Vilna, Lithuania, and his mother was from Cockney, England. Sidney's father was a professional soldier and fought from 1939-1945 during World War II.
