Since FX announced its Marvel mutant show Legion, it hasn’t quite been clear how the show will fit into the X-Men film universe, if at all. Not to mention Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige keep talking about the ‘Marvel Cinematic Multiverse.’ Hoping for some sort of Sony-Marvel deal after Spider-Man’s cameo in Captain America: Civil War, fan speculation rose about an X-Men cameo in Avengers: Infinity War until ComicBook.com caught up with director Joe Russo to clarify he hasn’t had a conversation with Fox. We haven’t heard where Legion will take place in the X-Men timeline, so whether it’s actually part of the movie universe or not would probably depend on whether it took place before or after the world found out about mutants.
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If you were not already confused by the X-Men universe, you will be once the FX TV series Legion premieres – especially as it appears that no one, including the producers, seem to agree on whether or not Legion exists in the same universe as the films.
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Singer went on, however, and said Legion and another planned X-Men TV series (announced back in July) “will relate to future X-Men movies” with a “really ambitious and fun and very unique storyline”. That makes it sound like Fox is borrowing its strategy from Marvel, whose shows and films are set in the same cinematic universe but rarely intersect. Do they take place in parallel continuities or do they take place in the same continuity? Marvel even lists Legion as a new MCU character.
One possibility is that Singer is using the phrase “X-Men universe” to mean “X-Men franchise” – in other words, that he’s simply acknowledging that they stem from the same source material – and that the connection between the show and the movies will be thematic rather than narrative.
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Or perhaps we’re reading too much into all of this.
