Updated with none age verifying trailerWhat is this? Why haven't I heard about this before? This looks fucking awesome!
Apparently there has been a film in the making called Legion about the end of the world where demons and angels wage bloody war over the fate of mankind and the epicenter is a small desert café in the middle of nowhere. I had no idea this film existed until I saw the jaw dropping red band trailer that was premiered on myspace today. This looks pretty damn insane.
Here's what IMDB.com has to say.
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.
The film stars Dennis Quaid, who seems to be on a genre rush lately, Paul Bettany, Kevin (Wolverine's Blob) Durand and Doug Jones as a demonic ice cream man. It's directed and co-written by Scott Stewart, an Visual Effects artist who seems to have worked on some of the biggest FX pictures in recent years and is the director of the up coming graphic novel adaption Priest, also starring Bettany.
The trailer, which is kind of long, doesn't skip on the red stuff, the potty mouth or the awesomeness that are demons and angels sporting heavy duty firepower and kicking ass. The film premiers on January 22nd and you have to verify your age before viewing the trailer which is embedded below the break.
Heh. Hot.
I have a hard time enjoying Catholic horror films and this looks like something that should have come out direct to video in 1999.
"demons and angels sporting heavy duty firepower and kicking ass"
this looks so sh*t it could be hilarious
Yeap. Looks f**king awesome.
Whats with hollywood movie all being about the end of the world?
Thou shall bringeth, so say the Lord!
Well now I don't have to see the actual film.
1990s all over again.
uh, prophecy/god's army, anyone?
old lady doing the exorcist 3 ceiling crawl.
this begs for the split second dialog: "big guns..."
actually, this needs Christopher Walken.
I was hooked, reeled in and ready to hit the bucket until I saw Tyrese and the guy from Tokyo Drift...
Wow, I gotta watch this movie, looks soooo fun!
Duh. Should play well in the red states where they believe such things.
Goddamn!
The trailer was worth watching just to see Grandma do the Spider-Man!
However, this seems more like something the makers of the Left Behind series would make. All the slick cg effects can't hide the cliched concepts and designs which are very obviously targeted at bible-belt Americans, and pretty much nobody else except maybe a small portion of Europe. Christian propaganda at it's finest and most action-packed. Not to say that it won't make a good film: it looks pretty damn good. But it's still propaganda.
looks yummy. should open for christmas insted of the new year. well, I guess by opening in the new year it sends the message that your future is damned. LOL!
This looked very aware of how cheerily insane the premise is. Not sure why people are treating this any differently than they would Robo Geisha.
I love crazy gory movies, but there's a fine line between a creative crazy movie and one that is not. The whole Machine Girl, and it's spin-offs, don't interest me. Neither this, i rather watch Ricki-Oh or Ebola Sindrome once more.
This trailer rocked. Spider-Grandma freaked me out (did someone send Sam Raimi a royalty check for totally biting his style?), and Angels Vs. Demons with guns is awesome, can't wait for this to come out. Was that Tyrese Gibson? And Christopher Walken Needs to at least make a cameo. I am so very THERE.
Straight from the pages of Weirdo Comics comes "Armageddon Outta Here". See Jesus and the anti-christ robbing banks. See Jesus and the anti-christ jacking cars. Seeing nacho cheese flavored air, and the woman that comes between them!
I think you got it wrong. What I got from it was that God has decided to kill all us off and one angel decides to not follow orders and protects fighting other angels in the process. Not something I think bible belt america would approve of at all.
I don't know about Christian propaganda, since God and the angels (except for Michael) are apparently the bad guys in the movie. No doubt they'll have some silly twist at the end that doesn't fix anything to go with all the terrible theology.
Grandma doing the spider/crab thing was sweet, though.
Story is quite similar to The Prophecy but told on a grander and gorier style. I love the bit with the possessed granny. Looks like a winner to me. I'm also loving Dennis Quaid's resurgence of late.
For once Twitch has dropped the ball, glad your on-board Swarez ;)
( I write that because Twitch usually covers what I'm interested in before B-D or Joblo, or...well every site I visit...)
Grandma rocks! The trailer has it's scary moments. I'll check this out.
BTW there was another Legion Project by the Director of Headhunter-The Assesement Weekend. I wonder if there is some connection.
"I think you got it wrong. What I got from it was that God has decided to kill all us off and one angel decides to not follow orders and protects fighting other angels in the process. Not something I think bible belt america would approve of at all."
Uhm, not that I'm picking a fight or anything, but there is no way in hell (pun intended) that God will be portrayed as the villain in this film. I am almost 100% certain that this film will end one of two ways:
1). It is revealed that the apocalypse was the work of a rogue Gabriel/angel, not God.
2). In a deus ex machina (pun intended), it is revealed that the apocalypse was just a test set by God for His children, and we somehow pass in a melodramatic fashion and Jesus leads the way into the new world.
So, yes, I definitely think this is a bible belt fan movie. I'd love to be proven wrong, though.
However ends, looks like crap.
I just like that the angels dress in Roman Centurian style armor.
Take THAT all you non-Catholic Christian denominations!
Viva Roma!
LOL
looks cool
but they should had just made a Spawn 2 (Spunk:P) movie instead. With angels demons and stuff:/
My question is this: will it have a rubber poop monster in it? I'd see that.
Who cares who the good guys or the bad guys are, thy could be trolls, aliens, demons, angels, people from the future, nachos from another dimension. In the end its all fantasy, thats why we watch these movies. The movie looks fun, a dont think its going to be an excellent movie, but at least it will be a nice afternoon in front of the Tv. It has guns, fantastic creatures and violence. Thats enough for me, wont see it in the cinema, but at least all rent it.
Having said that, it looks entertaining, Godsploitation or not.
Hey I don't believe in the Catholic religion but then I don't believe in dwarfs, zombies or aliens either and I manage to enjoy those movies.
This movie could easily pass for a "From Dusk Till Dawn" sequel/prequel/spinoff. I think that might be the next big wave that consumes movie scripts. First the zombies, then the vampires, now angels...
I was gonna say it looks like a Dogma ripoff with a bigger budget, but eDWeiRd kinda beat me to it with his poop monster comment...