Upcoming X-Men TV Shows: 8 Things You Need To Know

In keeping with the grand X-Men traditions of alternate timelines, continuity errors and things barely making sense, Noah Hawley's Legion and Matt Nix's untitled series will take place in separate universes. And it's not clear if Hellfire will share a continuity with either of them, if it ever gets off the ground.

"With Legion, we're our own universe", producer Lauren Shuler Donner told IGN, before offering this explanation: "It gives Noah the freedom to do what he wants to do. Because we play with so many different timelines, and we rebooted and not really rebooted and all that, we felt like, OK, we're going to throw it out there and hope the fans accept it."

FX network head John Landgraff told ScreenRant that Hawley's Legion universe is one "in which the US government is in the early days of being aware that something called mutants exist but the public is not." This seems to be the major difference between the Hawley and Nix universes, lest we forget that Nix's unnamed series exists in a universe where "mutants are hated and there are Sentinels".

"Matt's [series] is much more a part of just the world [...] You feel like you’re here in the X-Men world", Shuler Donner clarified in her interview with IGN. Those diagrams of the live action X-Men universe are about to get even more complicated, then.