Legion Executive Shares Details About Matt Nix’s X-Men TV Series

It’s a good time to be an X-Men fan. Last year, the franchise made a return to theaters with […]

September 5, 2017, 9:37pm

It’s a good time to be an X-Men fan. Last year, the franchise made a return to theaters with X-Men: Apocalypse, but fans were left mixed about the ambitious project. Now, audiences are looking to the small screen as FX prepares to debut Legion next month. The show will follow a mutant named David Haller as he discovers and come to term with his powerful mutation. In the future, other X-Men television series are also set to make their debut, and fans already know that one is underway thanks to writer Matt Nix.

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And, now, fans have gotten some details about the mysterious project thanks to Lauren Shuler Donner.

The Legion producer recently sat down with IGN to discuss the comic book series, and it was there that she let a few details about Nix’s series slip. During the interview, Donner made it clear that Legion would not take place in the same world as the X-Men films, and the site asked why the team elected to do so since Nix’s show will be within that universe.

Donner said the decision came down to freedom, but she prefaced the answer with a few juicy updates about Nix’s series. She producer said his show “is much more a part of just the world in terms of there are mutants, mutants are hated and there are Sentinels — though very different from what we’ve seen before.”

“You feel like you’re here in the X-Men world,” she continued.

Of course, fans will be interested to hear that Sentinels are reportedly being brought into the series. By the sound of it, Legion seems to be a lighter affair in comparison to Nix’s project, but FOX is excited to pursue the latter despite its differences.

Earlier this month, the network’s chairman and CEO Gary Newman spoke about Nix’s X-Men series and had this to say. “We’re deep into development on that. We’re expecting a script shortly. The materials we’ve seen so far have been very, very promising.”

Legion is the story of a troubled young man who may be more than human. It introduces the story of David Haller, who since he was a teenager, has struggled with mental illness. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Rachel Keller (Fargo), Jean Smart (Fargo), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Jeremie Harris (A Walk Among the Tombstones), Amber Midthunder (Hell or High Water), Katie Aselton (The League) and Bill Irwin (Interstellar) star in Legion.