Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza and More Join Marvel's Legion TV Pilot
Marvel have chosen Dan Stevens to led its Legion TV pilot alongside Aubrey Plaza, Jean Smart and Rachel Keller.
Legion, adapted from the Marvel comic character first introduced in New Mutants in 1985, focuses on David Haller. Long dealing with mental illness, he’s been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years until a strange encounter with another patient leads him to think that maybe the voices and strange visions he experiences might be more real than he or anyone else thought.
Stevens is starring as the troubled central character Haller with Plaza as Lenny, his friend who battles drug and alcohol addiction but is nevertheless an optimist at heart.
Jean Smart will star as his nurturing therapist who oversees David’s treatment, with Keller playing Syd, a spiky woman with a warm heart who still believes in a happy ending.
Produced by Noah Hawley, Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg, shooting on the pilot is scheduled for March, and it's up as a potential series at US cable channel FX.
If successful, it may hit Stateside screens later this year.