20th Century Fox working on a TV X-Men spinoff, X-Factor (1/26/15 UPDATE: For FOX)
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This thread needs a better thread title. I bet folks probably don't realize this is supposed to be an X-Men/Mutants-related TV show on FX.
loyola llothta
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I guess fox bite the tongue
TheNatureBoy
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Yeah, I know nothing really about the Legion character, but the fact that Hawley is involved and on FX has me intrigued.
Hellfire Club has potential as well, depending on the tone of the show.
Real
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I have no clue what this shyt is?
PlayerNinety_Nine
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FX fukking with 'Y The Last Man' too 
I just assumed Fox had to get Marvel's approval to take the properties from the movies to TV and not that there has been any significant cooling down of feelings between the two studios.
EzekelRAGE
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Current one better? The click bait.
Legion from the comics is Professor X's son. Pre-founding the X-men, Chuck was in Israel working in a psychiatric hospital & hooked up with co-worker Gabrielle Heller. He then dipped out on her, as a Xavier is known to do, and she ended up having a kid, David. She raises him herself and, when David's around 10, there's a terrorist attack where David watches his stepfather get killed. That sparked his powers and he lashed out & killed the terrorists but,not knowing how to use said powers, he was psychically linked to everyone as they died. The trauma of the event ends up scrambling his brain & he remains catatonic for years. When he first debuts in New Mutants, you find out that inside his catatonic brain, he had absorbed the psyche of the lead terrorist who tried to kill him and developed multiple personality disorder to cope with the psychic trauma. That's why Legion because there's a whole grip of personalities running around in his brain.
Now the interesting take on this is the absorbed terrorist psyche in his brain, Jemail Karami, living within David's catatonic mindstate, is able to tap into David's psychic abilities and realizes David's just a kid with a broken brain. So he begins to try to piece together all the shattered parts of David's mind to try and make him whole and healthy. The other personalities, however, take offense to that because healing his mind is essentially killing those personalities. So that starts a battleground in David's mind between Jemail on a suicide mission to fix David's brain by killing himself and all these splintered personalities and the personalities who fight against Jemail to remain existing. Also each personality manifests a different aspect of David's mutant powers. The two main ones, for example, are Jack Wayne, who is a mash-up of action movie stars that has telekinesis, and Cyndi, a rebellious teen girl that's pyrokenetic.
And that's all just the bare bones set-up for the character. In the actual story in the books, the New Mutants get psychically placed into David's mind to try and help him and discover all this story as they run through his brain.
I don't know how they're going to be able to depict this in a TV show, but it's a wild ass concept and after Noah Hawley hit the home run with Fargo, I'm really interested in how he'll flip this concept for series. The initial Legion story is New Mutants #26-#28 for anyone who wants to read it.
Now, the Hellfire Club in the comics is a social cub for rich & powerful a$$holes who dress up in Victorian gear and lingerie. The inner circle who run the club are a group who are secretly mutants and use the power & influence they & their club members have to push forth whatever agenda they have. They're not a group that really gives a fukk about mutant rights or anything; just their own self interests.
This Hellfire Club is probably going to be based on the version in X-Men First Class with Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw & January Jones as White Queen (an interesting note is w/ January Jones on Last Man on Earth & Kevin Bacon having done The Following, Fox might have overall deals with them, so there's a chance they reprise their roles, but it's too early to even guess at that). Given the events of that movie, I don't know how exactly they're going to play this out, but off the synopsis, it looks like it will probably focus on the club before the events of First Class. Only thing is I don't know what that expanded to a series would even really look like.
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I feel that X-Men are better suited as an episodic series rather than a feature film.
Norrin Radd
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What happened to my X-Factor series though 
it was only a matter of time before they bowed and kissed the ring 