Two new LEGION promos promise intense visual spectacle!
Early reviews for the new X-Men TV series Legion give the show praise for being much different from your typical superhero property and having an unique personality that stands out from the crowd. Now, we’re seeing some new promos take that promise to a new level, showing us the visual splendor of David’s wild mutant journey.
First, we see David and Rachel’s connection literally set the world on fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA6NhwZvK0c
Then there’s a visual and metaphorical unleashing of David’s power as he breaks out of his psychiatric strait jacket.
Legion makes its mark on FX on February 8, 2017.
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.