Bryan Singer Dropped As LEGION Executive Producer Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
Just hours after we learned Bryan Singer will likely be removed as an executive producer on season two of The Gifted, it's now been confirmed that the filmmaker will no longer serve as one on Legion.
The bad news keeps on coming for X-Men director Bryan Singer as it's been confirmed today that he's been removed as an executive producer on FX's critically acclaimed Legion. The news comes before work starts on season two but the twist here is that Singer is the one who asked to be removed.
"Bryan asked to take his name off the show, so we have done that," Legion creator/executive producer Noah Hawley told Deadline following a TCA panel for the series earlier today. Sources tell the trade that Singer reached out to FX once that new wave of sexual misconduct and assault claims surfaced and this is unlikely to change the show because he was only involved in the very early stages.
"Very early on in the conception of the show, I met him a couple of times," Hawley explains. "He was interested in directing the pilot, but once I stepped in to direct, I haven’t spoken to him since that moment. Really, he was a name on the screen." Between this and Simon Kinberg taking over the X-Men franchise on the big screen, it appears as if Singer's time with these Marvel heroes is at an end.
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