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Legion season 1 (new X-Men related tv show)

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Coming early 2017 on FX. Still no exact release date, but I'm hoping for January. The promos have started so I figured it was time for it's own thread.

There's going to be a Legion panel on October 9 at NYCC, featuring showrunner Noah Hawley, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, Marvel's Jeph Loeb, and the stars of the show, including Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza, Rachel Keller, and more.

This promo was just posted a few days ago:

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And then they followed up that piece of art the next day with this:

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I like where this show is going!
 
And of course they had already released a full trailer back in July.

I'm telling ya, I'm getting my hopes sky high for this show!

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Kahless the Unforgettable said:
I just can't believe Fox is working more and more with Marvel. Here's hoping the latter gets even more control over their properties sooner than later.
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If Legion is a hit, that's going to encourage Fox to make more X-Men shows, and of course to do that, they'd need to get permission from Marvel each time, for each new show.

So think about it this way: by watching Legion, you're forcing Fox and Marvel to work closer together.
 
φ of π said:
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Yep. I dont understand why they do that.
Many of these series end up pretty soon after the premiere on local streaming services, be they some local site or global ones like HBO or Netflix. So why limit early marketing to specific countries?
 
I went into the trailer expecting to see something cheesy but this actually looks pretty damn good. I will definitely be checking it out.
 
kitik said:
If Legion is a hit, that's going to encourage Fox to make more X-Men shows, and of course to do that, they'd need to get permission from Marvel each time, for each new show.

So think about it this way: by watching Legion, you're forcing Fox and Marvel to work closer together.
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They're already working on a second X-Men series that will air on Fox. It's about a family who goes on the run after the kids develop mutant powers. It sounds like there's a chance of that one connecting a bit more directly to the X-Men mythos than Legion does. I believe they've said Legion is in a different universe from the movies, but I'm not sure what it's relationship to other show will be, or what the other show's relationship to the movies will be.
I wouldn't be totally against getting separate interconnected X-Men TV universe separate from the movies, like the two Marvel universe.
 
When I first heard of this, I was not interested. My only exposure to Legion was "Legion Quest" and the early Ultimate X-Men comics. I never really liked the character.

But seeing Noah Hawley is behind this has made me interested. I loved what he did with Fargo and it seems he is applying that same quirkiness to Legion.
 
He was a really fascinating character when he first appeared in Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz' New Mutants back in the day. The setting of the story, inside David Haller's fractured mind, played to Sienkiewicz' strengths. He was essentially killed off at the end of Claremont's run. And as much as I did like the character, they probably should have left him dead.
 
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Legion's solo book from a few years ago was really good, easily my favorite use of the character.
 
kitik said:
If Legion is a hit, that's going to encourage Fox to make more X-Men shows, and of course to do that, they'd need to get permission from Marvel each time, for each new show.

So think about it this way: by watching Legion, you're forcing Fox and Marvel to work closer together.
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Not sure that follows. I'd expect their licensing agreement already covers what properties they have the TV rights to. And even if they did work with Marvel on the shows in some capacity, that wouldn't necessarily have any effect on the movies, any more than Marvel's own TV shows affect the MCU movies. These are big corporations and their TV and movie production units are pretty independent of each other.
 
^And now even more than they used to be thanks to that big split a while back.
 
can't imagine this new promo is going to attract any new viewers that the previous ones didn't, but here it is anyway:

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