The world of Marvel's X-Men has always been large and ripe enough for serialized storytelling on the small screen, but it's been all animated series so far. Thankfully, FX will psychologically thrill us with the upcoming series Legion, while Fox is gearing up for its own mutant-fronted show, and though rumors of them being tied to the X-Men film franchise were previously shot down, it sounds like a change in tune is happening. Here's how filmmaker Bryan Singer puts it.

[Legion is] part of the X-Men universe, but when you watched it, you wouldn't have to label it, it could exist completely on its own. . . . [Both shows] will relate to future X-Men movies.

That's pretty huge, guys. Legion has at its center David Haller, the son of Professor Charles Xavier and Gabrielle Haller, a once-schizophrenic man who discovers he's one of the most powerful mutants to ever exist. To hope that this show would work in elements from the six-film-strong big screen side is mildly reductive thinking in terms of how much story can still be told within the X-Men world and timeline, regardless of who is or isn't still playing the biggest characters. Instead of looking back, the best idea here is to plan on intertwining things in the future, if such connections are indeed meant to happen.