Marvel TV series for Fox, FX
October 16, 2015
Marvel and Fox have joined to teams to co-produce a Hellfire series for Fox and a Legion series for FX. The shows, which will be based on Marvel’s X-Men comics, will be executive produced by X-Men film director Bryan Singer. Fargo creator Noah Hawley has also signed on to write and executive produce Legion.
Hellfire will be set in the 1960s and will follow a young special agent who learns that a gifted woman is working with a society of millionaires known as The Hellfire Club to take over the world. Legion follows mutant schizophrenic David Haller.