Hawley will executive-produce through his FX Productions shingle 26 Keys, while Kirkman, who writes The Walking Dead comic series and executive-produces The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead and Cinemax’s Outcast, will executive produce through his company Skybound Entertainment.
In an Avengers-like team-up, Captain America directors the Russo Brothers are joining forces with The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Fargo and Legion executive producer Noah Hawley for an FX crime series called The Mastermind.
The Russos, Hawley and Kirkman all have very different styles and sensibilities and it will be very interesting to see how they work together.
FX also recently greenlit a nonfiction-based miniseries about the Vietnam war called Huế 1968 from director Michael Mann.