It was recently confirmed that 'Fargo' showrunner Noah Hawley will be working on the FX series adaptation of the Marvel comic book 'Legion,' which follows David Haller as he discovers other mutants.
The show is clearly a Hawley brainchild, and although producer Simon Kinberg revealed that he also spoke to 'X-Men: Apocalypse' director Bryan Singer and producer Lauren Shuler Donner about the idea, he was completely inspired by his conversation with Noah Hawley.
"I remember I was actually in Moscow last year about to go into a dinner, I was there for the 'Days of Future Past' premiere, and I was sitting in a car outside a restaurant about to go into dinner," Kinberg told Collider, adding that what he was expecting to be a short call turned out to be much, much longer.
"It was really early on in the process, like one of the first conversations, and Noah and I were on a call just the two of us just riffing ideas, and I was sitting outside what I thought was gonna be like a 10 minute call and I ended up sitting out there for three and a half hours, missing the dinner," he said. It turns out that missing dinner would be worth it
"Everybody had not only had the dinner but went home, and I just got off that call being like, 'It's midnight in Moscow but we have to make this show with this guy because he's so brilliant,'" Kinberg said.
But what can the world expect in the 'Legion' TV series? Simon Kinberg claims that boundaries will be pushed.
"I mean the thing that's cool and that's the hope in branching out to TV is that we can tell these 'X-Men' stories in a slightly different way and even with a slightly different tone. It's one of the thing we're kind of doing in the different movie franchises," he said, continuing to explain what he plans to do with 'Legion.'
"The TV shows give us an opportunity to go even further and certainly what I'm seeing on 'Legion' with Noah and FX is an intent to do something completely original in the genre, in some ways to sort of blow up the paradigm of comic book or superhero stories and almost do our 'Breaking Bad' of superhero stories," Kinberg said.
'Legion' is expected to start shooting in early 2016.
