Not too long ago Marvel
announced the development of two X-Men properties to the small screen. Legion,
which introduces David Haller, a schizophrenic who after years of coming in and
out of psychiatric hospitals finds out that the voices he hears and the visions
he sees might be real. And the late '60s set Hellfire, which follows a young
special agent who learns that a woman with extraordinary abilities his working
with a group of powerful men known as The Hellfire Club to take over the world.
Speaking to Collider, producer Simon Kinberg offered a
quick update on the status of both shows, especially Legion.
"Legion and Hellfire are
both super active. Hellfire we’re hoping to be shooting at the
beginning of next year, the pilot. It’s been extraordinary working with Noah
Hawley [on Legion], who I think is a straight up genius. Actually
the idea for Legion, it began in conversations with Lauren
Schuler Donner and Bryan Singer and Noah me, but 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. 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. 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.’
So that’s really ramping up now, the production’s ramping up to start shooting
at the beginning of the year with FX."
One of the things Kinberg has expressed in the past
interest on is to approach these X-Men offshoots, both on the big and small
screens, in a slightly different way, perhaps even giving them all different
tones from that of the main storyline.
"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 things we’re kind
of doing in the different movie franchises. I mean Deadpool obviously
has a very different, almost antithetical tone to the mainline X-Men movies. The X-Men movies
are dramatic and almost operatic, whereas Deadpool is irreverent and hysterical
and sort of a dirty R-rated comedy in many ways. And Gambit will have its own different
flavor and tone to it, will be more of like a heist movie and a sexy thriller
in a way. So 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."
Finally, Kinberg added that FX might give Legion a 10
or 13-episode season as they do with other series and that it is too early to
talk about Hellfire's episode number.
Source - Collider
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