X-Men Spinoff Legion Series Pickup Is Looking Optimistic

Despite pretty dire news for Hellfire yesterday, FOX today told journalists at the Television Critics Association that a pickup for Legion looks pretty good.

Yesterday, news came that Hellfire was not going to make it to pilot in 2016 since it was on a “slower track” of development and its showrunners had left and needed to be replaced, but today FX CEO John Landgraf said development on Legion — the other X-Men spinoff in development from Fox Television — looks good.

“It takes place in a parallel universe,” Landgraf said. “The US government is in early days of being aware of mutants, but not the public. Idon’t foresee any characters moving back and forth (between the movies and the series).”

The show looks good for a 2016 pickup, he added, and “the scripts are extraordinary.”