Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.
Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley has steadily been assembling a pretty stellar cast for Pale Blue Dot, his first feature film. Natalie Portman, Zazie Beetz, and Jon Hamm have all signed on for the project, about an astronaut (Portman) who cheats on her Earth-based husband, due both to the well-documented…
Psionic surges frozen in time. Cocktail hour on the astral plane. Bollywood-inspired dance breaks for the wicked and weary alike. Noah Hawley’s Legion might be the un-superhero show, but there was nothing ordinary about its debut season. The Fargo creator took elements of the horror, thriller, and sci-fi genres, then…
To prepare for Legion’s return, you can watch this video, marathon the show this weekend on FX, or enter this contest to win a limited-edition Mondo poster inspired by the show and the first season on Blu-ray so you can watch David Haller’s (Dan Stevens) story unfold at your leisure.
The first season of Noah Hawley’s Legion explored, among many, many other things, the relationship between Haller siblings David (Dan Stevens) and Amy (Katie Aselton). The former was perpetually troubled, while the latter became almost hyper-vigilant of what she originally perceived as her brother’s mood swings.
The first full trailer for Legion season two is here, and it’s much more straightforward than previous teases (well, as straightforward as Legion can get).
The first Legion season two teaser tried to undermine our understanding of everything that went down at Clockworks and Summerland in the first season. But a new pair of clips makes it pretty clear that there’s a lot of shit going on outside David’s head (not to mention ours).
FX has just announced the return of another one of its critically-lauded original series. Just weeks after Donald Glover heads back to Atlanta for season two and The Americans prepares to say “dasvidanya,” Legion will return to mess with your head a bit more. The network announced via press release today that the…
Movies about writers always struggle with the fact that the writing process is almost unfilmable; the manual work of scribbling and typing letters is only a small, visible part of it. But The Man Who Invented Christmas, which dramatizes the six weeks that it took a cash-strapped Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) to pen A…
“This is the opportunity to explore impossible frontiers.” Clearly, the opening line of the teaser trailer for new indie sci-fi actioner Kill Switch doesn’t understand that if you can explore a frontier, then it’s probably possible. Nonetheless, after 20 seconds spent staring at a black cube with a glowing red circle…
Who he is: David Haller, a.k.a. Legion
[Note: The Legion season-one finale is less than a week old, so we’re going to continue to preface any related posts with a little warning, to give you adequate time to go to the astral plane or otherwise avoid any spoilers before you’re all caught up.]
[Note: This post is full of spoilers for the Legion season one finale. If you’re not ready to discuss the episode or read over some of Noah Hawley’s and Dan Stevens’ thoughts on the episode, maybe go watch the Fargo season three trailer again, so you can still be in the Hawleyverse?]
Disney’s new live-action Beauty And The Beast is just like its classic animated version of Beauty And The Beast, only longer: All the songs, characters, and major plot points have been preserved, but with an extra 45 minutes of new material—including, for some reason, lots of backstory for everyone on screen. On Film…
Stories are more powerful than we give them credit for. We don’t remember sequences of events too well, but assemble those same elements in a particular order, interpret them through the lens of a narrative, and our brains suddenly take notice. It’s not just that stories make things interesting; they quite literally…
For most of us, retreating into our thoughts or daydream is a way of coping with something bad or unpleasant. We can briefly pull away to recall something more pleasant, or mentally deliver the snappy retort or withering dismissal we’ve only just come up with. Some of us linger longer than others, but we always come…
Shiny but not exactly new, Bill Condon’s live-action Beauty And The Beast is a curious nostalgia object, synthetically engineered to reproduce all the same sensations as a 26-year-old movie. Once content merely rereleasing or straight-to-video sequelizing its vast canon of animated classics, Disney has recently turned…
Season one of Legion isn’t done fucking with our minds yet, but FX has just green-lit another batch of reality-warping episodes. The network announced via press release that it’s just ordered a second season, thereby affording Noah Hawley several more opportunities to make us as fearful of beagles as we are bedtime…
[The following may contain spoilers for the FX series Legion. If you don’t know certain things about the comics that the show is based on and don’t want to be spoiled, turn back now.
If Melanie is hiding her true intentions, she’s doing a damn good job of it. Lenny may have been David’s best friend in life, but it’s unclear what role she’s playing now that she’s dead. She tries to warn him off Melanie and her crew—“That bitch’s secrets have secrets”—but it’s harder to take Lenny’s prognostications…
