FX picks up “Legion” for 8 episodes.
It was rumoured a while ago that a “Legion” series was being developed for TV, and it has now been confirmed that the series will be be going ahead on FX. It was announced yesterday by Nick Grad and Eric Schrier, Presidents of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions.
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“Legion” introduces the story of David Haller: Since he was a teenager, David has struggled with mental illness. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.
The series will have “Fargo”s Noah Hawley as exec producer, and Nick Grad had nothing but praise for him and his work,
“We’ve come to expect excellence from Noah Hawley and with ‘Legion’ he has delivered another major creative achievement,” said Grad. “Just as he did in reimagining “Fargo,” he is bringing an entirely new aesthetic and sensibility to the enormously popular and richly represented X-Men world.
Yeah, you read that right, the X-Men world. David Haller, for those who may be unfamiliar, is the son of Professor Xavier. In the comics his powers manifest when he is the victim of a terrorist attack, the trauma fragments his mind into multiple personalities, each of whom control a different aspect of his many powers. Obviously we are seeing some changes in the story, given the synopsis above, but the basics are there.
Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”), Rachel Keller (“Fargo”), Jean Smart (“Fargo”), Aubrey Plaza (“Parks and Recreation”), Jeremie Harris (“A Walk Among the Tombstones”), Amber Midthunder (“Hell or High Water”), Katie Aselton (“The League”) and Bill Irwin (“Interstellar”) star in “Legion.” Production on the eight-episode first season will begin this summer in Vancouver and the new series from FX Productions and Marvel Television will debut on FX in early 2017.
More info at Marvel.com
