Do you have any future plans for the character of Stephen Leeds?
Ah, Stephen Leeds. So this is the main character from Legion. Legion is- actually kind of got some cool stories behind it. Legion, you know, is one of these quirky ideas I came up with. And actually since it was mainstream and things I said, “Hey Dan,” talking to Dan Wells, my friend, “You should write this story, let me tell you about it.” And he was not nearly as excited about it as I was. I’m like, “Dan, you need to write this story, you need to write this story.” And finally I realized, “Oh, I should write this story cause I came up with the idea, rather than telling Dan to. It’s okay, Brandon. You can write something mainstream”.
So, I kicked it around for a while. For me, I viewed it as being a television show, a pitch for a television show particularly. So I wrote a pitch on it, and I wrote that story to be kind of a pilot pitch. Which then sold the television rights on it, which was always kind of the goal for me was to get that because I view it as being a really awesome television show. So we sold the rights to Lionsgate and I went ahead and released the story that I wrote
I would like to do more things like that. I have so much on my plate, who knows? My little notebook that I carry around places where I expect to be bored, it has scribblings, you know, of maybe a quarter of another Stephen Leeds story. I ran into a hangup with some of the science and so I fired off a furious email to Peter, my assistant, and he was like, “I don’t know”. And usually that doesn’t happen with Peter on the science, so maybe it is a real quandry. So, answer is, yes there should be more. Hopefully we can get the television show off the ground and that would be a lot of fun.
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