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Television series starring the son of Professor X and one of the X-Men’s greatest rival teams?
Marvel and the Fox network have agreed to a two-project partnership for two television series set in the world of the X-Men according to Deadline.
Both series will be executive produced by Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler-Donner and Simon Kinberg (the team behind the X-Men film franchise) and Marvel Head of Television Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory.
The first project is a pilot for Legion by Fargo creator Noah Hawley.
In the comics David Haller is the son of Professor Charles Xavier with the code-name Legion. David is a mentally unstable young man with multiple personalities and each personality is in control of one of his multiple mutant powers which include telekinesis, telepathy and pyrokinesis.
Updated: Marvel has confirmed a pilot ordered for Legion and added an official description:
“The pilot introduces 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.”
Haller was co-created by legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont during his New Mutants run. David recently starred in a short-lived solo series X-Men Legacy following the death of his father.
Marvel confirmed the second Fox/Marvel project. Hellfire is the working title for the other project. This series will be set in the 1960’s and based on The Hellfire Club 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.”
Evan Katz (“24: Live Another Day”), Manny Coto (“24”), Patrick McKay (“Star Trek 3”) and JD Payne (“Star Trek 3”) are co-creators. McKay and Payne will write the pilot script, based on a story by Katz, Coto, McKay and Payne.
The most famous members of the Hellfire Club from comics are Sebastian Shaw and Emma Frost (played by Kevin Bacon and January Jones in X-Men: First Class).
The Hellfire Club is an actual “gentlemen’s club” comprised of the most rich and powerful in often decadent parties. Claremont used this as inspiration for a team of villains during his classic X-Men run.
In the X-Men comics, the Hellfire Club has an “Inner Circle” of rich and powerful mutants had their own evil agenda which often led to clashes with the mutant heroes. Frost would go on to reform and become an X-Man and lover of Scott Summers.
By Editor