FX CELEBRATES THE LAUNCH OF
LEGION WITH IMMERSIVE ART EXPERIENCES
ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Three-Day New York Art Exhibit, Legion Where?House, Featuring Original Art by Renowned Artists
Five Augmented Reality Murals in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco
Exclusive Art Made Available to Fans in 56 Comic Book Store Locations Throughout the US
LOS ANGELES (January 24, 2017) –
FX Networks announced today bold and exciting art-inspired initiatives to celebrate the long-awaited February 8th premiere of
Legion. Comic lovers around the country can access the
headspace of one of the world’s most powerful mutants and embrace the
fractured reality of this new original series through one-of-a-kind
experiences presented by FX Networks.
For full details, visit insidelegion.com/experience.
Five
augmented reality murals that will reveal the power of David Haller’s
mind can be found in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Los Angeles and San
Francisco. Those who find the murals can download the Blippar app,
then aim and frame the art to watch the power of
Legion come to life. Locations for each mural are: Brooklyn, NY
at St. Nicholas Avenue & Jefferson Street; New York, NY at Bleecker
Street & Carmine Street; Chicago, IL at W. North Avenue & N.
Western Avenue; Los Angeles, CA at Hollywood Boulevard &
Vine Street; San Francisco, CA at Fillmore Street & Union Street.
Launching Friday, January 27 through Sunday, January 29,
Legion Where?House opens to the public featuring a mind-bending
three-day art exhibit in Brooklyn. The gallery presented by FX is
inspired by the unpredictable world of
Legion at Villain warehouse in Brooklyn, New York. The three-day
exhibit will challenge audiences and bring the unfathomable power of
the
Legion to life with art installations inspired by the series’ themes, including:
- Forced perspective art piece by Michael Murphy
- Found materials installation by Clemens Behr
- Light and shadow installation by Kumi Yamashita
- Legion Key Art Mural by David Flores
- Multimedia installation inspired by the series
In
addition, fans nationwide who want to take the art home can head to 56
participating comic book stores across the US including Arizona,
California,
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, Texas and more, that will be giving away the limited edition
posters (while supplies last). Go to
insidelegion.com/experience
for the full list of locations.
Legion, the highly-anticipated new drama series from Noah Hawley, will
premiere on FX on Wednesday, February 8 at 10 PM ET/PT.
Hawley serves as Executive Producer, along with Lauren Shuler Donner,
Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory and John Cameron.
Legion is the latest project from Hawley and Cameron, two of the executive producers of the Emmy®
and Golden Globe®-winning FX limited series Fargo.
Legion,
based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz,
is the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens), a troubled young man who
may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a child, David has
been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. Now in his early
30s and institutionalized once again, David loses
himself in the rhythm of the structured regimen of life in the
hospital: breakfast, lunch, dinner, therapy, medications, sleep. David
spends the rest of his time in companionable silence alongside his
chatterbox friend Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), a fellow patient
whose life-long drug and alcohol addiction has done nothing to quell
her boundless optimism that her luck is about to change. The pleasant
numbness of David’s routine is completely upended with the arrival of a
beautiful and troubled new patient named Syd
(Rachel Keller). Inexplicably drawn to one another, David and Syd share
a startling encounter, after which David must confront the shocking
possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees may
actually be real.
A
haunted man, David escapes from the hospital and seeks shelter with his
sister Amy (Katie Aselton). But Amy’s concern for her brother is
trumped
by her desire to protect the picture-perfect suburban life she’s built
for herself. Eventually, Syd guides David to Melanie Bird (Jean Smart), a
nurturing but demanding therapist with a sharp mind and unconventional
methods. She and her team of specialists
– Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris), Kerry (Amber Midthunder) and Cary (Bill
Irwin) – open David’s eyes to an extraordinary new world of
possibilities.
Legion is produced by FX Productions and Marvel Television, with FXP
handling the physical production.
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About FX:
FX
is the flagship general entertainment basic cable channel of FX
Networks, a business unit of 21ST Century Fox.
FX Networks is comprised of FX, FXM and FXX. Launched in June of 1994,
FX is carried in 91 million homes. The diverse schedule features a
growing roster of critically-acclaimed and award-winning hit dramas
series, including
The Americans, The Strain and the upcoming Taboo, Legion and
Snowfall; the critically-acclaimed limited series American Horror Story,
Fargo, American Crime Story and the upcoming Trust and Feud; acclaimed hit comedy series including the award-winning
Louie, Archer, Baskets, Better Things and Atlanta. In 2016, FX received a basic cable record 56 Emmy® Award nominations and a basic cable record 18 wins, including 9 for
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. FX is the former home of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning hit drama series
The Shield, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Damages, Sons of Anarchy and Justified.
The network’s library of acquired box-office hit movies is unmatched by
any ad-supported television network. FX’s roster of acquired hit series
includes
Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother and Mike & Molly.
About Marvel Entertainment and Marvel Television:
Marvel
Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney
Company (NYSE: DIS), is one of the world's
most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a
proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of
media over seventy-five years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises
in entertainment, licensing and publishing.
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