Red-Band Trailer For 'Legion' Might Scare You Back to Church
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The enormous casting call of Legion was one of the earliest stories I penned on Cinematical, a fact I recalled in a blinding flashback when I encountered Paul Bettany's naked abs in a San Diego elevator. From ComicCon on, the film seems to have been attracting a curious buzz, probably helped greatly by Bettany's wing-framed body. Come on, it's pretty darn nice.
A very long, very red-band trailer for Legion has appeared on MySpace and now we can get an eyeful of what the lucky Hall H attendees saw at ComicCon. It's strange, horrifying, violent, and weirdly funny. There's a dash of Preacher, Dogma, and The Prophecy about this clip and I'm honestly surprised it isn't based on an edgy comic book of some kind because it has that mash-up of camp and blasphemy that you generally only find in a book published by Vertigo or Dark Horse. I'm very curious about this one. It looks like it could be awful, and yet I have to admire any film that features a lanky Englishman kicking ass, Dennis Quaid doing anything, Kevin Durand doing his usual scary thing, and people willing to crack jokes in the face of angelic invasion. Plus, it's my humble opinion that storylines featuring scared teenagers who may be pregnant with a Messiah just never get old.
Hop below for the trailer. No lying about your age now, you whippersnappers. Remember, your guardian angel is watching.
A very long, very red-band trailer for Legion has appeared on MySpace and now we can get an eyeful of what the lucky Hall H attendees saw at ComicCon. It's strange, horrifying, violent, and weirdly funny. There's a dash of Preacher, Dogma, and The Prophecy about this clip and I'm honestly surprised it isn't based on an edgy comic book of some kind because it has that mash-up of camp and blasphemy that you generally only find in a book published by Vertigo or Dark Horse. I'm very curious about this one. It looks like it could be awful, and yet I have to admire any film that features a lanky Englishman kicking ass, Dennis Quaid doing anything, Kevin Durand doing his usual scary thing, and people willing to crack jokes in the face of angelic invasion. Plus, it's my humble opinion that storylines featuring scared teenagers who may be pregnant with a Messiah just never get old.
Hop below for the trailer. No lying about your age now, you whippersnappers. Remember, your guardian angel is watching.
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8-13-2009 @ 1:43PM
Drewbacca said...
Yeah, I'll see it
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8-13-2009 @ 2:07PM
Rufus said...
I think I wet myself ;)
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8-13-2009 @ 3:07PM
Eric said...
I really think that looks awful, Plus it really does not make a whole lot of sense. Like why would god want to wipe out humanity when the second coming apparently in the film is right around the corner.
Also if Angles can possess you why do they look like demons when they do it. Plus why would a angle who has wings need a car. It's just really silly if you ask me.
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8-13-2009 @ 4:11PM
cubitfox said...
Obviously He is trying to stop the second coming, which is blatantly obvious in the trailer when he sends hoards of angels to kill a baby. Oh, and its just a trailer so all the plot intricacies won't be explained. And again, its just a trailer so you can't really judge it.
8-13-2009 @ 4:30PM
Eric said...
So wait a all powerful God who can do anything is trying to stop his next "son" from being Born. So then why not if I am "god" make her have a miscarriage. Instead of sending a army of angels after him. If he is god then he can do anything. Like Oh I don't know Poof Archangel Michael out of existence. Oh and it's a piss poor trailer so I can Judge it. People do it all the time.
8-13-2009 @ 3:41PM
Kyle said...
It looks like he cut them off.
And is that Dennis Quaid who explodes?
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8-13-2009 @ 3:54PM
Wendy said...
I hope so.
I love Paul Bettany, but I really just want to see how it ends.
8-13-2009 @ 4:43PM
Drewbacca said...
It's a friggin' movie! If you bitch about a "hiccup" in movie logic, then you will a most miserable individual.
It looks cool, has gun-toting Archangels - and Dennis Quaid explodes!
(I'm there)
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8-13-2009 @ 4:50PM
Daryl26 said...
@Eric: You know...it's about religion, so inconsistencies and flat out contradictions are really a big part of the whole mythos.
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8-13-2009 @ 4:54PM
Jaded said...
My name is Legion for we are many.
Sign me up.
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8-13-2009 @ 7:51PM
morphs said...
Wow. This looks fantastic. I love angels and demons. It's funny though. In Supernatural's series premiere the actress was killed and burned by a demon. Now she's being protected by the Archangel Michael. I wonder if demons will play into this at all.
@ Eric - You assume a lot. You assume this is the exact God you think it is. You assume God is in control of everything. You assume that there is no kind of protection from God. If there was an Angel would know. You assume you know what people look like when demons possess people. Some say that demons are Angels who fell so that could be a reason why they'd be the same. Why was he driving a car? Because if you actually watch the trailer he cut off his wings after he fell. It also said nothing about the fetus being God's next son.
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8-14-2009 @ 2:48AM
Abby said...
I love how morphis has the best logic ever and his icon is a pot leaf
8-18-2009 @ 8:04PM
bobby1423 said...
i have never seen such a great trailer before if the trailer is that good the movie is going to be EPIC
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8-17-2009 @ 11:37AM
nic said...
what makes you think these are angels from heaven, lucifer was an angel, these are obviously naughty naughty angels working against God
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8-18-2009 @ 7:16PM
morphs said...
How is that obvious? God could never turn against his children and doom them?
*Looks at the last thing in the first line of what nic said*
Guess he could.
8-25-2009 @ 9:31PM
Christian M. Howell said...
That was almost like superheroes with rocket launchers. Sounds like a winner.
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9-13-2009 @ 11:23AM
Scorpio Moon said...
I can't wait to see it! Religion has never followed any sort of logic so why should this movie? No one knows the "rules" so you can't really say what could should or would happen. I am looking forward to Kevin Durand myself! I am sure he will give Christopher Walkins portrail of the Angel Gabriel a run for his money.
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