Haller is based on the character by Marvel Comics of the same name, and is also known as Legion. He’s got voices in his head, but they may very well turn out to be the real deal.
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It’s not in the continuity of those films in the sense that the current X-Men films take place in a universe where everybody on planet earth is aware of the existence of mutants.
The show will tell the story of a troubled man named David Haller.
Dan Stevens (The Guest), Rachel Keller (Fargo), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) and Jean Smart (Fargo) star in the series. While in a psychiatric hospital, though, David has a weird experience that helps him realize that he’s not mentally ill at all, but a highly gifted mutant.
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One of two dramas FX has already ordered for 2017, the other being Ryan Murphy anthology Feud, Legion is set to premiere in early 2017. That’s something the series will hopefully address quite quickly, because as great as Legion looks, it’s still going to have to find a way to honour the source material if Marvel and FX have any hope of keeping comic book fans interesting in coming back to it every week. Noah Hawley serves as an Executive Producer with Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory, and John Cameron. However, this distrust of reality that has dominated his life gets challenged when he has an encounter with a fellow patient and gets confronted with the possibility that the visions he has might be real.
