Noah Hawley is an American television writer and producer who created the
FX crime/dark-comedy/drama series Fargo based on the
Coen Brothers movie of the same name (with inspiration from their other works) in 2014, and later the
psychological-superhero-thriller series
Legion (2017) based on the
Marvel comic of the same name three years later. Known for being an incredibly hands-on showrunner, Hawley also wrote the best-selling novel
Before the Fall in 2016 while juggling his two shows of vastly differing style. The rights were eventually purchased by
Sony, who plan to adapt it into a movie with Hawley himself writing the screenplay. He also announced in 2017 that he would be directing a movie based on
Doctor Doom, but with
Disney's acquisition of
20th Century Fox and the shuttering of a number of planned Fox-Marvel movies, what's on the horizon is anyone's guess. For what it's worth,
Kevin Feige implied that he was interested in the script when speaking to him.
Works Hawley has been credited in:
- Bones (2005-2008; writer and producer)
- My Generation (2010; creator, writer, and executive producer)
- The Unusuals (2009; creator, writer, and executive producer)
- Fargo (2014-present; creator, writer, and executive producer)
- Legion (2017) (2017-2019; creator, writer, and executive producer)
- Lucy in the Sky (2019; director, writer, producer)
