Psychedelic New Cast Portraits & Series Premiere Promotional Stills Released For LEGION

With just around two weeks to go, FX has released a whole new batch of promotional stills and cast portraits from their upcoming critically acclaimed X-Men spin-off series, Legion! Come take a look!

By RohanPatel - Jan 25, 2017 08:01 PM EST

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Source: FX

If early reviews (which have all had very good things to say) are any indicator, Noah Hawley (Fargo) has done it again, and we should be in for the mind trip of a lifetime when FX officially rolls out their upcoming X-Men spin-off series, Legion, on February 8.

The series stars Dan Stevens (Beauty and the Beast) as David Haller as he tries to navigate his new superpowered reality and determine whether or not what he's seeing is actually there. He'll be joined in his mind-bending quest by Rachel Keller (Fargo), Jean Smart (The Accountant), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Jeremie Harris (After Party), Amber Midthunder (Hell or High Water), Katie Aselton (The League), Bill Irwin (Bastards), and Jemaine Clement (Moana).

FX recently debuted a ton of new photos from the show, featuring practically everyone from the main cast, so scroll down below to check out twenty-eight new promotional stlls:

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 he must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees are the result of him being a mutant.

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 features:
Dan Stevens as David Haller
Rachel Keller as Syd Barrett
Jean Smart as Melanie
Aubrey Plaza as Lenny Busker
Jeremie Harris as Ptonomy Wallace
Amber Midthunder as Kerry Loudermilk
Katie Aselton as Amy Haller
Bill Irwin as Cary Loudermilk
Jemaine Clement in an undisclosed role

Legion premieres February 8
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GhostDog - 1/25/2017, 8:20 PM

Ok so is this show in the 60s or....

The72nd - 1/25/2017, 8:21 PM

I'm so excited for this. I trust Hawley with my life

GhostDog - 1/25/2017, 8:24 PM

TomSolo - 1/26/2017, 3:20 AM

@ComicsBornAndBred - I don't care when this is set. That is fine-ass jacket! I want one!

GhostDog - 1/26/2017, 6:35 AM

@TomSolo - yea you right that'd a dope jacket can't lie haha

GhostDog - 1/25/2017, 8:27 PM

BlackStar25 - 1/25/2017, 8:39 PM

@ComicsBornAndBred -

GhostDog - 1/25/2017, 8:43 PM

Its official, this show HAS to take place back in the day. The tech that guy is surrounded by in the one photo is very old. The fashion, the vibrant colors, the architecture, the gun being held by the brotha with the nice cap too. I dont think its just retro for the sake of being retro, I think it takes place in the 70s.

Or this is how LEGION fashions reality to appear to him. Idk. Xavier knocked some chick up in his teens or early twenties back in the day, lets say the 50s. Legion would be in his twenties if this is the mid seventies.

AsgardianHobo - 1/25/2017, 8:48 PM

@ComicsBornAndBred - I agree. I didn't really grasp it for sure until these last screenshots

GhostDog - 1/25/2017, 8:50 PM

@AsgardianHobo - yea these portraits and promo stills really confirmed it for me. Its odd almost that they seem to be treating it like some secret. Unless, its tied to Legion's powers.

Nightmare - 1/25/2017, 9:32 PM

@ComicsBornAndBred - You said 60s. I said 70s.

GhostDog - 1/26/2017, 6:41 AM

@Nightmare - 60s? I don't know what you're talking about...

GhostDog - 1/25/2017, 8:47 PM

Fargo season 2 just took place in the 70s too so Noah was probably (still) really feeling those retro vibes. His seventies sensibilities could've been very high once getting into Legion. And, he doesn't have to recycle all those old sets haha.

GhostDog - 1/25/2017, 9:05 PM

@DaScarlettFever - yea. i think the figured, better to set it during the 70s and leave the door open for a relatively young Xavier; he'd be in his 40s.

The trailers give it away too. In his sessions, David's examiners keep saying he's a part of a new species, something along those lines. A new breed of people is growing. We know mutants didn't become wildly known to the public until First Class in the 60s. So mutants are still pretty new to the world in the 70s.

Also, Magneto and Xavier wouldn't be the two sides of the same coin if they both didn't have ILLEGITIMATE KIDS haha.

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Psychedelic New Cast Portraits & Series Premiere Promotional Stills Released For LEGION

With just around two weeks to go, FX has released a whole new batch of promotional stills and cast portraits from their upcoming critically acclaimed X-Men spin-off series, Legion! Come take a look!

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