X-Men TV spinoff Legion will be 'standalone' and unconnected to the movies 

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will be a "standalone" affair and won\'t be a continuity of the movies.

\'s Noah Hawley, who is behind the show, described Legion as a "fable" and said it will be unclear when it is set.

 follows David Haller, a schizophrenic man who discovers that the voices in his head may be superpowers and not psychosis.

"It\'s a little more of a fable in my mind," he told

. "If you were to say, \'Where is it, and when is it?\', it\'s not exactly clear, I think.

"And a lot of it is because he\'s not exactly clear. It\'s the world as perceived subjectively on some level.

, are rooted in a time period and a world and playing with history in interesting ways. This isn\'t doing that."

Hawley was also asked whether people need to see the recent films to follow the show, answering: "No. It\'s a standalone kind of thing."

FX CEO John Landgraf previously suggested that the series would not crossover with the franchise\'s movies.

is set to star Dan Stevens, Jean Smart, Aubrey Plaza and Rachel Keller.

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