We have everything you need to know about 2017's Legion, from trailers (there are a lot), to the premiere date, and more!
Talk about going outside the comfort zone for your superhero TV shows. FX has ordered eight episodes of Legion, a series about an unstable young mutant. The extra cool thing about this? Fargo's Noah Hawley is the showrunner. It's also a co-production of FX Productions and Marvel Television. And who says broken fences between major media conglomerates can't be mended?
Legion Release Date
Legionarrives on FX on Wednesday, February 8th at 10 pm. The announcement came with a brand new trailer...
Legion Trailer
Check out all the footage they've released so far for Legion...
The first trailer for Legion arrived back at SDCC 2016. It's pretty explosive, too. Check it out:
Check out the other promos, too. They're certainly...different.
Legion Story
There's a fairly detailed synopsis for the show, too...
Legion, based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, is the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens), a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a child, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. Now in his early 30s and institutionalized once again, David loses himself in the rhythm of the structured regimen of life in the hospital: breakfast, lunch, dinner, therapy, medications, sleep. David spends the rest of his time in companionable silence alongside his chatterbox friend Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), a fellow patient whose life-long drug and alcohol addiction has done nothing to quell her boundless optimism that her luck is about to change. The pleasant numbness of David’s routine is completely upended with the arrival of a beautiful and troubled new patient named Syd (Rachel Keller). Inexplicably drawn to one another, David and Syd share a startling encounter, after which David must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees may actually be real.
A haunted man, David escapes from the hospital and seeks shelter with his sister Amy (Katie Aselton). But Amy’s concern for her brother is trumped by her desire to protect the picture perfect suburban life she’s built for herself. Eventually, Syd guides David to Melanie Bird (Jean Smart), a nurturing but demanding therapist with a sharp mind and unconventional methods. She and her team of specialists – Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris), Kerry (Amber Midthunder) and Cary (Bill Irwin) – open David’s eyes to an extraordinary new world of possibilities.
What's not mentioned here is that David is the son of Charles Xavier and Moira MacTaggert. Well, at least he is in the comics. Whatever FX's Legion TV series connections to broader X-Men mythology, one thing is for sure: it won't have anything to do with the movies. Given the uncertain nature of the movie universe's continuity at the moment, that might not be the worst thing.
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FX CEO John Landgraf spoke at the TCA Winter Tour in 2016 (via SlashFilm) about where everything fits together:
“It’s not in the continuity of those films in the sense that the current X-Men films take place in a universe where everybody on planet earth is aware of the existence of mutants. Legion takes place in a parallel universe if you will where the government is aware mutants exist but the public is not. I wouldn’t see characters moving back and forth because they really are parallel universes.”
This one will have a rather different tone, though. Noah Hawley described it as "surreal and dreamlike" in a recent interview. We have more on that here.
Simon Kinberg told Collider in November that...
“I mean the thing that’s cool and that’s the hope in branching out to TV is that we can tell these X-Men stories in a slightly different way and even with a slightly different tone...So the TV shows give us an opportunity to go even further and certainly what I’m seeing on Legion with Noah and FX is an intent to do something completely original in the genre, in some ways to sort of blow up the paradigm of comic book or superhero stories and almost do our Breaking Bad of superhero stories."