Legion

Legion (2010)

Plot: After a terrifying biblical apocalypse descends upon the world, a group of strangers stranded in a remote truck stop diner in the Southwest unwittingly become humanity’s last line of defense when they discover the diner’s young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Paul Bettany, Doug Jones, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Durand, Kate Walsh, Lucas Black, Willa Holland, Adrianne Palicki, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Stamberg, Yancey Arias, Luce Rains, Erik Betts
Directed by: Scott Stewart
Release Date: January 22, 2010

Paul Bettany’s “Legion” is flying under the radar right now, but it’s not flying under my radar. This is easily one of my most anticipated movies of 2010, and the one panel at Comic Con I will do everything in my power to attend, if just to see something from this movie. What can I say, I just dig the whole concept behind it. Plus, Paul Bettany is fronting the flick as a badass arc angel armed with a knife and a machinegun. And wings. Don’t forget about the wings. How could something like that not be totally badass?

Anyways, all that is a long-winded way to say that the guys over at MaximumPC snuck their way into the San Diego Convention Center where Comic Con will be held in mere days and snapped some pictures. Thanks to reader J. Mack, who recognized my enthusiasm for “Legion” and sent me the heads up. Dude, you rock.

In the film, Bettany will play Michael, who along with some humans in a diner in the middle of nowhere, has to protect the messiah growing inside one of the diner’s waitress. All that, while the apocalypse is taking place outside the diner. Yikes. The film will co-star Dennis Quaid, Doug Jones, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Durand, Kate Walsh , Lucas Black, Willa Holland, and Adrianne Palicki.

Dennis Quaid, Adrianne Palicki, and Others Join Legion

Scott Stewart’s directorial debut, the fantastic sounding “Legion”, has just gotten mucho crowded. The film, which stars Paul Bettany (aka Mr. Jennifer Connelly) as a fallen archangel who tries to save mankind from imminent destruction, has added a gaggle of potential saviors of mankind to its cast. Dennis Quaid (pictured, left), Tyrese Gibson, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand and Willa Holland are all signing up to save the world, or die trying. Well, they’d have to die if they failed, right?

Scripted by Stewart and Peter Schink, the thriller casts Bettany as the archangel Michael, the only one standing between mankind and an apocalypse, after God loses faith in humanity. Man’s lone hope rests with a group of strangers who must deliver a baby they realize is Christ in his second coming.

This is the kind of movie right up my alley. Anything that posits the end of the world, that throws in angels and the Devil, and I’m there with bells on. Plus, I’d love to see this work out for Bettany, a vastly underrated fantastic actor who needs just this kind of movie to break through into superstar status. Or at least, more leading man roles.