‘X-Men’ Spinoff ‘Hellfire Club’ May Premiere Early 2017; Plus A Minor ‘Rambo’ Update
By Fred Topel/Jan. 15, 2016 3:00 pm EST
“Unlikely it would be the fall,” Walden said. “Potentially midseason but no immediate plans. We’re still working on Hellfire Club. Obviously those executive producers are very busy with the film franchise and the FX show, so not sure.”
There is also a Rambo TV series in development at Fox. While Sylvester Stallone was an on-again, off-again producer, he is currently off again. During the panel, chairman and CEO Gary Newman declined to give details about the new take on Rambo.
“When there is a rumor that [Stallone] was going to be involved it was as a producer, not actor so nothing has changed,” Newman said. “That script continues to be in development. We haven’t seen a draft yet but once we’ve seen it, we’ll know more what our plans will be.”
After the panel, I asked Walden to clarify whether there were still different takes in the works. “We just haven’t seen it,” she said. “They pitched our head of entertainment, David Madden. He took the original pitch so he could tell you exactly what the story was, but the script hasn’t been sent to Gary and me yet. I believe it is not in its final version yet.”
“It actually got very far,” she said. “We shot a pilot and there were so many good things about it, it ultimately wasn’t good enough to be ordered. We asked a lot of those producers. It was a very truncated schedule. We saw it a few months ago and just made a decision that also to put it on track to be midseason would be additionally rushing it, so it just didn’t make it.”
