Professor Xavier’s son caused massive shakeups in mutant history and could shakeup the superhero genre on screen.

Fox and Marvel are working on two X-Men spinoff television series: Legion and Hellfire.

Legion by Fargo creator Noah Hawley as showrunner/writer is the story of David Haller, Professor X’s son code-named 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.

Veteran X-Men producer Simon Kinberg compares the Legion project’s potential to a hit series of a very different genre. Continue reading X-MEN SPINOFF “BREAKING BAD” OF SUPERHERO STORIES”