X-Men: Evolution producer Boyd Kirkland told The Continuum that writing for the third season of the show has nearly been completed.

"Story-wise, we're into the writing of the last two episodes," Kirkland said on Tuesday during The Continuum's visit to Film Roman, where X-Men: Evolution is produced. "It's going to be another two-part finale for the season like we've done for the first two seasons, where we have a big, epic kind of finish to the season.

"The first part of that, the story is finished, and is now just going into storyboards. The second part of it, we're working on finalizing the script right now. We're nearing the end of the story development phase of the third season."

The second season of the show ended with a cliffhanger that introduced new characters and revealed to the public the existence of mutants.

"It was nice that the network let us construct a story that ended in a cliffhanger so that we can do a story that will carry on, and pick up the pieces where we left off," Kirkland said. "So ultimately it will make for a nice, big story arc."

Although they've been revealed as mutants, the young X-Men will return to high school.

"We're not real anxious to completely turn our backs on what the show has been, the idea that they're high school kids and they're stealing with those kinds of issues," Kirkland said. "So they are going to get back to school, but it will be under different circumstances now. The circumstances now obviously being that the world knows they're mutants. So rather than finding ways of hiding who they are, they have to find ways of coping with who they are, with the general public, including friends, peers at school and Principal Kelly. And we have some episodes that deal with those sorts of issues."

Look for much more soon in The Continuum on the third season X-Men: Evolution, including interviews with Kirkland, directors Frank Paur and Curt Geda and Marvel Studios' Craig Kyle, who is writing episodes for the season.