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Marvel is set to bring two new “X-Men” series’ to TV.
A “Hellfire” series will be set up at Fox while a “Legion” cable show has been given a pilot order at FX. Both projects have “X-Men” feature helmer Bryan Singer attached as exec producer.
First to “Hellfire”, which is set in the late 1960s and “follows a young Special Agent who learns that a power-hungry woman with extraordinary abilities is working with a clandestine society of millionaires – known as “The Hellfire Club” – to take over the world.”
Meanwhile, “Fargo” creator Noah Hawley is attached to write the “Legion” pilot about “the story of David Haller: Since he was a teenager, David 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.”
