It was quite an exciting week for Marvel when it was announced that a new TV series will be created around the comic book character known as 'Legion.' David Haller, who is the schizophrenic son of 'X-Men' leader Professor X, is one of the most important comic characters in Marvel. The FX TV show 'Legion' has even been rumored to connect with the other Marvel series 'Hellfire Club.'
However, 'Legion' showrunner Noah Hawley has just confirmed with CBR that his series will be a completely separate entity.
"It's conceived more as a standalone," Hawley said of the series. "I don't want to say too much more about it on that level, but certainly it's not constructed as a back-door anything."
Noah Hawley also revealed that although a crossover with 'Hellfire Club' has never been discussed, it is highly unlikely to happen.
"We certainly haven't had any conversations about crossovers," he said. "I don't know anything about it, but I think that one is more linearly taken out of the world of the movies. Ours has its own world to it."
And it looks like the showrunner also decided to work a series before even knowing about David Haller's story.
"I basically came up with a TV show that I wanted to tell and then found the right character for it," Hawley admitted. "It was more about trying to find my way to what the show was, in some ways reverse engineering it. We found the perfect character."
The 'Fargo' producer shared what attracted him to David Haller as a character to focus on in his new show.
"What I really like about him is, here's a character who is schizophrenic on some level, a character struggling with mental illness," Hawley said. "Is he crazy or does he have these powers? The answer is, kind of both... I liked the idea that if you have a character that doesn't know what's real and what's not real, that is also the audience's journey."
'Legion' is expected to be released by late 2016 or early 2017.
