FX announced Monday Marvel’s latest mutant TV series, “Legion,” shall be arriving Feb. 8.
The print version of mutant David Charles Haller, introduced in 1985’s New Mutants #25, includes among his abilities reality warping, time travel, telepathy and telekinesis.
This print Haller, also known as “Legion,” is Charles Xavier’s son, the result of the randy Xavier impregnating Israel’s ambassador to Great Britain. Haller hears voices that may or may not be real, and has spent a good deal of time in mental institutions.
Cast members of FX's "Legion" series include Dan Stevens ("Downton Abbey"), Aubrey Plaza (“Parks and Recreation”), Jean Smart (“24”) and Rachel Keller (“Fargo”). Noah Hawley (creator of "The Unusuals," "My Generation," and the TV version of "Fargo") scripted the pilot.
Press release!
FX SETS PREMIERE DATE FOR LEGIONHighly-Anticipated New Drama Series From Showrunner Noah Hawley To Premiere Wednesday, February 8 at 10 PM ET/PT on FX
New Legion Trailer Now Available
Executive Producers are Hawley, Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory and John Cameron
LOS ANGELES, December 5, 2016 – Legion, the highly-anticipated new drama series from Noah Hawley, will premiere on FX on Wednesday, February 8 at 10 PM ET/PT. Hawley serves as Executive Producer, along with Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory and John Cameron. Legion is the latest project from Hawley and Cameron, two of the executive producers of the Emmy® and Golden Globe®-winning FX limited series Fargo.
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.
Legion is produced by FX Productions and Marvel Television, with FXP handling the physical production.
