Paul Bettany as Michael in Scott Stewart's Legion

[Rappy Veteran]

When the last angel falls, the fight for mankind begins. Out of all the movies on the line-up at Comic-Con, there was only one that I found that I had never heard of before - Legion. It has an impressive cast - Dennis Quaid, Paul Bettany, Doug Jones, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Durand, Kate Walsh - and is directed by first-time feature filmmaker Scott Stewart, a former visual effects artist from The Orphanage (which shut down last year). It seems like it could be awesome, but we haven't seen anything yet. However, thanks to Maximum PC, we have our first look at a banner from Comic-Con and it looks exactly as I expected it would - badass!

Having lost faith in the human race, a legion of angels descend to Earth to bring about the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael himself (Paul Bettany). I have a feeling this is going to be one of those very stylized, highly visual movies that involves a lot of CGI. But considering it's coming from a former CGI artist, it'll look incredible, and this first look proves that. I mean, just seeing Paul Bettany as angel is awesome. But as the Archangel Michael with a knife and an MP5, now that is badass! The official website also just launched: legionmovie.com.

[first showing]

[Pretend]

[Comic Book Guy]

Why does that sort of remind me of Gabriel?

[Rappy Veteran]

Yeah that's what it reminded me of, Gabriel wasn't a bad movie if I remember.

[Pretend]

Wow, very similar posters, same lighting and colors :o

[Rappy Veteran]

Probably to many supernatural movies around atm! :p but of course sometimes now a bad thing!

[Pretend]

Bettany and Palicki Signed for Legion Sequels

ShockTillYouDrop.com has learned that both Paul Bettany and Adrianne Palicki are signed for two Legion sequels.

The first film, directed by Scott Stewart, will be released in theaters by Screen Gems on January 22nd. Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Doug Jones, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Kevin Durand and Willa Holland co-star.

In the movie, God loses faith in humanity and sends his legion of angels to wipe out the human race for the second time. Mankind's only hope lies in a group of misfits holed up in a diner in the desert who are aided by the archangel Michael.

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[Rappy Veteran]

wth sequels already haha

[Comic Book Guy]

Wow, very similar posters, same lighting and colors :o

I agree:

Bettany and Palicki Signed for Legion Sequels

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They're signing them for sequels already, they don't even know if it'll be a hit at the box office, talk about major assumptions!

[Rappy Veteran]

People will go see it purely because the poster promises action, there's an angel with a knife and gun :rofl:

[Pretend]

They better hope the first one does good :laugh: Which I think it will - regardless of how good/bad the movie is.

[Comic Book Guy]

People will go see it purely because the poster promises action, there's an angel with a knife and gun :rofl:

But that doesn't necessarily scream sequel, it may be a box office bomb, and any sequels are straight-to-video and not with the original cast at that.

[Rappy Veteran]

No I know it doesn't scream sequel but people will see that poster and see it and kaching there's your money return...granted we may get a sequel in cinema and third STV

[Comic Book Guy]

The Butterfly Effect was a small hit in theatres, and both sequels went STV, so if there is a sequel I am betting on a STV release without the original cast.

[Rappy Veteran]

Even though they have signed for the sequel?...unless they want to pay get out clauses its pointless signing them for sequels.

[Comic Book Guy]

Even though they have signed for the sequel?...unless they want to pay get out clauses its pointless signing them for sequels.

You'd be surprised at what can happen between now & then, I've known people who worked in the film industry, and I've seen and heard stuff like that happening.

[Rappy Veteran]

Director Scott Stewart describes his film Legion as ?angels with machine guns.? Having seen the footage premiered today by Sony in Hall H, I?d say that?s a pretty damn good way to sum it up. We haven?t known much about the film, which stars Paul Bettany, Tyrese Gibson, Doug Jones, Kevin Durand, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton and Dennis Quaid. That?s a hell of a cast, and the early art we?ve seen is certainly suggestive. Seeing the footage, I?ve been thinking of some combination of the Christopher Walken Prophecy and a film like Project Terror. More on the footage and the film after the break.

We first see the Ice Cream Man, played by Doug Jones. He pulls his truck to a stop in the middle of nowhere and promptly sprouts long, freaky arms and legs; he?s described as a harbinger of doom. Eventually a story is sketched in: there?s some conflict brewing between Heaven and earth, and Paul Bettany?s angel Michael ditches Heaven to fight for mankind. So we see him cutting off his wings and dropping shackles (what Stewart referred to as halo collars, a kind of heavenly LoJack) before joining a band of humans holed up in a diner as they confront an unsettlingly demonic legion of angels and (possibly) other creatures.

The basic idea is ?what if mankind is in a place, morally, that would bring about another flood; if so, angels might take action.? As it appears, that action could be wiping out humans. But there is hope, in the form of an unborn baby, carried by Charlie (Palicki). She?s at the center of the drama and action at the diner, and Michael is trying to defend her from the angel Gabriel (Kevin Durand). And Dennis Quaid fits in as the owner (maybe?) of the diner; at one point in the footage we saw him apparently crucified upside-down.

This is an action movie; it looks like a real B-picture with a mostly A-list cast. Granted, it?s Screen Gems, and they?ve managed to mess up a lot of good concepts, but from what we?ve seen today I?m more interested in the fun that might wait in Legion than I have in anything else from the outfit in quite a while.

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[Pretend]

[Rappy Veteran]

ok this trailer is pretty bad ass!

[Rappy Veteran]

[Comic Book Guy]

ok this trailer is pretty bad ass!

That looks really good, however, I wish they'd start making trailers with everything they've cut out of the movie, that way when you see the movie it's different from what the trailer showed!

[Rappy Veteran]

Yeah I did have the feeling I had seen the whole film through the trailer

[Comic Book Guy]

Watch the movie Gabriel, and you've more or less seen Legion.

[Rappy Veteran]

Yeah saw that a year or so back it's a good movie, don't forget though Legion is a trilogy :laugh:

[Green_Eye]

ok this trailer is pretty bad ass!

That was a good 5 min film...