Noah Hawley Told Fox He Couldn’t End ‘Legion’ Unless They Allowed Him to Use Professor X

Noah Hawley confirmed at the TCA press tour the upcoming third season of his FX comic book series “Legion” will be its last, and he’s got major plans as Harry Lloyd is joining the series as Charles Xavier/Professor X.

The character is the father of “Legion” protagonist David Haller (Dan Stevens).

For Hawley, bringing Professor X to the series meant going to the executives at 20th Century Fox and negotiating to use the character.

James McAvoy currently stars as Professor X in Fox’s “X-Men” movies, which includes the upcoming “Dark Phoenix.”“The movie studio definitely controls that story and those characters and there was a negotiation that had to go on,” Hawley told The Wrap.

“Going into this third story, that conversation began to be had at the highest levels, because I can’t finish the story unless I can do it.”Luckily for Hawley, 20th Century

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