My name is Legion for we are many! – Legion.
A pilot for an The X-Men spinoff Legion will film in Vancouver this March. Multiple-personality mutant Legion, whose personas have hundreds of different powers, is a proposed stand-alone series for FX from Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley. He chose troubled David Haller (Charles Xavier’s son) from the many superhuman characters in the X-Men universe because he wanted to tell the story of in-and-out-of-mental institutions youth who “doesn’t know what’s real and what’s not real”, according to TV Insider. Is David a schizophrenic with a mental illness or is he mutant with powers? Both.
Legion is set in an earlier time than the X-Men movie franchise before everyone in the world is aware of mutants, FX boss John Landgraf told the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena earlier this month. Langraf said then that a writers room had already “beaten out” episodes for the first season, calling the scripts “extraordinary”. And sets are under construction.
The series from Hawley, Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory and John Cameron is expected to air on FX in 2016.
Filming of the pilot is expected to start March 9th and wrap April 4th (dates subject to change), according to the Directors Guild of Canada – BC production list. Production codename: Clubhouse.