Writer, director, and producer Noah Hawley has a unique approach to adaptation. Though an author of six novels and several other original TV and film projects, the New York-born, Austin-based creator is best known for his work in the realm of creative translation, having burst onto the scene with FX anthology series Fargo .

Fargo doesn’t lift any characters or plot lines directly from Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 dark comedy classic but it does, in some inscrutable way, borrow its soul. Through five loosely-related seasons, the series has paid brilliant homage the Coen brothers’ oeuvre, while carving its own place in TV history. Hawley pulled off a similar translational magic trick with the X-Men mythos in the psychedelic series Legion . Now FX is turning to him once again to find

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