TV News: Legion Picked Up By FX Networks to Debut Early 2017

UPDATED: Fri 10/21/16 – Promo Clip “Real”

UPDATED: Thurs 10/2016 – Promo clip “Powerful Sorry”

UPDATED: Wed 10/19/16 – Promos “Control” and “Powerful Real”

UPDATED: Mon 10/10/16 – Promo Clip “Danger”

FX Networks announced today it has ordered the X-Men spin-off Legion to series. In addition to the announcement, FX Networks also released the first image from the new series.

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Dan Stevens as David Haller.

LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2016 – FX Networks has ordered the first season of Legion, the story of a troubled young man who may be more than human, it was announced today by Nick Grad and Eric Schrier, Presidents of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions. 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.

“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. The pilot episode is stunning, driven by incredible performances from Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza, Jean Smart, Rachel Keller and the rest of the cast. We join our producing partners at Marvel in congratulating the creative team for what they’ve accomplished and are as excited as the fans for the premiere of Legion’s first season.”

“Marvel Television is thrilled to not only have our first partnership with FX go to series, but working with the enormously talented Noah Hawley makes it even better,” said Executive Producer Jeph Loeb. “From the first time we heard Noah’s vision to his exceptional script and cast through the extraordinary filming of the pilot, we knew the series would be incredible.”

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.

Noah Hawley (Fargo) will serve as an Executive Producer along with Lauren Shuler Donner (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool), Bryan Singer (X-Men: Apocalypse, Superman Returns), Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Martian), Jeph Loeb (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel’s Daredevil, Marvel’s Jessica Jones), Jim Chory (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel’s Daredevil, Marvel’s Jessica Jones), and John Cameron (Fargo, The Big Lebowski). 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.

Real: The power is real. Legion – Early 2017 on FX.

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Powerful Sorry: Crazy? Or powerful beyond imagination… Experience Legion February 2017 on FX.

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Control: Who has control? Legion, the all new original series from FX and Marvel, arrives February 2017 on FX.

Powerful Real: Does David Haller know what he is? Legion arrives February 2017 on FX.

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New Promo “Danger” – Legion is coming. 2017. Question everything.

Legion will be produced by FX Productions and Marvel Television, with FXP handling the physical production.

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