Two new Marvel shows set for TV

It’s a Marvel Comics world conquest with two new TV series from Marvel now under development with two different networks. The story focuses on a young special agent who discovers that an ambitious woman with superpowers is collaborating with a secret society of millionaires, called “The Hellfire Club”, with an ultimate plan to rule the world.

Patrick McKay and JD Payne are set to write the pilot for the series based on a story by McKay, Payne and Evan Katz (all three are credited as co-creators of the series along with Manny Coto).

The press release says all sorts of lovely things about Marvel working with Fox, but there is a little actual sign of any if that. He had been in and out of hospitals for mental disorders throughout his life and, as a teen, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, which meant he was seeing and hearing voices presumably not there. Hawley is also set to executive produce alongside Singer, Shuler Donner, Kinberg, Loeb, Chory, and John Cameron.

Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Jim Chory, and Jeph Loeb will be executively producing Hellfire and Legion.

Per Deadline, neither series will have the X-Men branding although both are set in the same universe.

More Marvel is coming to TV, and this time it’s part of the 20th Century Fox Television family.

Fans may remember the Hellfire Club from the extended X-Men storyline “Dark Phoenix Saga” and the 2011 superhero film “X-Men: First Class”.

Marvel will expand its ever-growing universe further into the realm of television, prepping two new X-Men-based projects: the tentatively titled Hellfire for Fox, and Legion for FX. In Marvel Comics canon, the character is Professor Charles Xavier’s mutant son.

Club members Sebastian Shaw and Emma Frost previously appeared in X-Men: First Class as portrayed by Kevin Bacon and January Jones.

“We are thrilled to partner with Marvel to bring this world to television and build upon the Fox Logovibrant mythology that has captivated fans for years”, Fox Entertainment president David Madden said of Hellfire. Neither have “X-Men” in the name, though, so this will be nice and confusing for people who don’t obsessively keep up with nerdy crap like this.

This wasn’t a huge problem early on when the series’ origin stories were still being told, but recently, it led to certain issues surrounding keeping the movies and TV shows in canon with the comics. “We are so looking forward to working with this incredibly talented team”, he added.