There’s been talk of an X-Men TV series of some sort for a while now, with most assuming that it will focus on X-Factor Investigations, a team of mutants working as private detectives in New York. As cool as that would have been, the rumour was clearly bogus, as Marvel and Fox have today announced plans for Hellfire (a working title) on FOX and Legion on FX.

Created by Evan Katz (24: Live Another Day), Manny Coto (24), and Patrick McKay and JD Payne (Star Trek 3), Hellfire is set in the late 1960s, and will follow a young Special Agent who learns that a power-hungry woman with extraordinary abilities is working with a clandestine society of millionaires – known as “The Hellfire Club” – to take over the world.

Fargo’s Noah Hawley is responsible for Legion, the story of David Haller (a character better known to comic book fans as the son of Professor X). Since he was a teenager, David has struggled with mental illness. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

Both of these shows have some serious star power behind them with X-Men franchise veterans Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner, and Simon Kinberg all attached to Executive Producer alongside Marvel TV’s Jeph Loeb. So, what do the latter get out of this deal?

A cut of the ad revenue seems like the most likely possibility, though it would be nice to think Marvel letting Fox make these X-Men shows may have led to them regaining the rights to the Fantastic Four or a Wolverine cameo in Avengers: Infinity War! Wishful thinking…