It’s not all connected.
According to reports from the FX day at the Television Critics Association press tour, it was revealed that the upcoming X-Men-related series Legion will take place in a “parallel universe.”
“It’s not in the continuity of those films in the sense the current X-Men films take place in a universe in which everybody on planet Earth is aware of the existence of mutants,” FX President John Landgraf said. “The series Legion takes place in a parallel universe, if you will, in which the US government is in the early days of being aware that something called mutants exist but the public is not. I wouldn’t foresee characters moving back and forth because they really are parallel universes.”
It does, however, sound like Legion will be hitting the air.
“We’re quite well along. We’ve had a writing staff working. We’ve seen not only the pilot but several episodes and we’re well in process of casting,” he said. “I would anticipate that Legion would go on the air some time in 2016, this year.”
Legion centers on 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. In the comic books, Haller is the son of Professor Charles Xavier of X-Men fame.
