Joseph Baxter Mar 13, 2019

Noah Hawley updates on his long-planned Doctor Doom movie, and teases its plot.

Doctor Doom is a Marvel movie dream project that Noah Hawley, the visionary behind FX’s Legion and Fargo, has wanted to tackle since he announced it back at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con. However, the project is currently stalled as its fate hangs in the balance, depending upon developments from the imminently-closing $71.3 billion deal that will see Disney, which owns Marvel, acquire 20th Century Fox, which had been licensing X-Men and Fantastic Four, the latter of which is Doom’s mothership property. However, Hawley recently reiterated his interest in the project, and even teased its plot!

Hawley dropped some major Doctor Doom details to Deadline at SXSW, revealing that the project went far enough for him to have a meeting with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige in which they even discussed the status of the film project,...