FX released a new image of Dan Stevens in Legion while showrunner Noah Hawley compares Legion vs X-Men universe.
Legion showrunner Noah Hawley released a new image of Dan Stevens battling his demons as the titular character in the new FX series Legion. The image shows Stevens on a screen in the audio mixing room, and it depicts David Haller (Legion) trying to explain himself to someone off-screen.
Legion, who is the son of X-Men’s Charles Xavier, is known for his dissociative personality disorder that allows him to take on the personalities of others, and these myriad personalities also control his superhuman abilities, leading some to believe that he’s suffering from mental illness while others believe that he’s a mutant.
The Legion character debuted in the Marvel Universe back in 1985 (in New Mutants #25 to be exact), but just because he’s a mutant doesn’t mean we’ll see any crossovers between Legion and Wolverine.
Of course, that’s not to say it can’t happen. FX boss John Landgraf says it’s not set in the film universe and that Legion takes place in “It’s not in the continuity of those films in the sense the current X-Men films take place in a universe in which everybody on planet Earth is aware of the existence of mutants. The series Legion takes place in a parallel universe, if you will, in which the US government is in the early days of being aware that something called mutants exist but the public is not. I wouldn’t foresee characters moving back and forth because they really are parallel universes.
The parallel universe is really the sticking point that would keep Legion from crossing over with the X-Men, but it’s safe to say that if someone wanted to make it happen, the parallel worlds could probably line up the way they’d need to in order for it to happen.
Hawley says that the focus with Legion is the idea of what it means to be a complete outsider, which is a central theme in the Marvel mutant world. The FX series is a better vehicle to explore that theme, Hawley says, because “a TV show is more character-driven, and I think it’s more interesting to explore almost the existential questions of what it’s like to be different, to really be different, and to questions the reality that everyone else lives in.”
Legion is set to premiere on FX sometime in early 2017.
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