Legion - new X-Men based TV show on FX is not related to the X-Men

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The X-Men-based TV series, Legion, likely will be coming to FX by the end of 2016.

Legion centers on the story of David Haller, the alleged son of Professor X who was previously diagnosed with Schizophrenia before realizing his supposed illness was actually something more. Landgraf said this potential series won't take place within the X-Men film 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," he 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."

Asked shortly after if Legion might directly include any characters we've also met in the X-Men films, Landgraf replied, "It’s still in process but I think at the moment they’re all new characters... But I’m not 100% sure that'll be the case by the time it airs."

As for the time frame of the show, Landgraf revealed, "It might be a few years in the past," while also saying it will be a 10-episode season,

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