One Fox and Marvel TV series is being developed really, really slow — HELLFIRE just lost its showrunners and writers — while another is nearly ready for the cameras to start rolling.
Fox owned FX Network head John Langraf spoke about LEGION at the Television Critics Association press tour (via EW) and confirmed the series will not be in the same X-Men universe as the movies exist in.
“It’s not in the continuity of those films in the sense that the current X-Men films take place in a universe where everybody on planet earth is aware of the existence of mutants. The series Legion takes place takes place in a parallel universe in which the U.S. Government is in the early days of being aware that something called mutants exist, but the public does not. I wouldn’t foresee characters moving back and forth because they really are parallel universes.”
Langraf, then, implied that he expects the series to premiere at some point in 2016.
“We’re already in active prep. We’re building sets. Our writers room is already assembled and has already beaten out the first season.”
"Legion, which is being developed by Noah Hawley (Fargo TV series), tells the story of David Haller, who was diagnosed schizophrenic as a teenager and spent years in and out of psychiatric hospitals. But after an encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real. For those of you who haven’t read the comics, Haller is actually the mutant son of X-Men leader Professor Charles Xavier."
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