I actually wrote a proposal for the TV series, sent that out first, then wrote the first Legion novella to prove it would work. We did end up selling the rights for a show, but it never materialized and they let the option lapse.
The original concept with Legion was to do a short story that would lend itself to being a television show pilot. That’s how I imagined it and I wanted to do future episodes, so to speak. I particularly love the episode format they are doing for Sherlock on the BBC, if you guys have seen that, where your season is three hour-and-a-half long mini movies basically. And I love that format for a television show, I wish we could get more television shows doing that. I would rather sink my teeth into an hour-and-a-half long episode that has character growth, real growth and development, progress and the next one doesn’t just hit the reset button and say, another adventure. It is progressing the characters further. I’d rather get three of those in a season than a twenty-two episode where of those episodes eighteen are just yet another adventure with no progress.