LEGION: Lenny & Oliver Find "Someplace Warm" In A Script Page From The Season 2 Premiere; Plus New BTS Photos

LEGION: Lenny & Oliver Find "Someplace Warm" In A Script Page From The Season 2 Premiere; Plus New BTS Photos

A script page from the second season premiere of FX's Legion has been released online, featuring some dialogue between Lenny Busker (Aubrey Plaza) and Oliver Bird (Jemaine Clement). Come take a look!

By RohanPatel - Jul 13, 2017 03:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Legion
Source: Entertainment Weekly

Last we saw Lenny Busker (Aubrey Plaza) and Oliver Bird (Jemaine Clement), they were hightailing it out of town in search of "someplace warm", and based on this opening script page from the second season premiere, they seem to have found their destination - albeit with a Legion-esque twist.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, executive producer Noah Hawley shed some light on the scene in question, which takes place in a different plane of existence where Amahl Farouk a.k.a. the Shadow King is essentially keeping their minds entrapped till he needs them next.

Lenny and Oliver are being used by this character, Amahl Farouk. He wears their faces from time to time. It’s his way of hiding himself. I had this thought of, ‘What does Freddy Krueger do during the day?’ I thought it was interesting, the idea of the downtime of these characters. They’re not being used and so what is reality like for them? They’re being placated, that they’re in some place beautiful that may not actually be a physical space, it may be a mental space, like an astral plane. They have everything they need, they’re by the pool, it’s beautiful, but at a certain point, there’s part of them that realizes that they’re just trapped in this reality they don’t have any control over.

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Plus, check out these awesome behind-the-scenes photos from season one, courtesy of The American Society of Cinematographers. (Use the hard-to-see arrows on the right side of the post to see more shots):

My Polaroids from "Legion" batch #1 #filmisnotdead

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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 he must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees are the result of him being a mutant.

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 features:
Dan Stevens as David Haller
Rachel Keller as Syd Barrett
Jean Smart as Melanie Bird
Aubrey Plaza as Lenny Busker
Jeremie Harris as Ptonomy Wallace
Amber Midthunder as Kerry Loudermilk
Katie Aselton as Amy Haller
Bill Irwin as Cary Loudermilk
Hamish Linklater as The Interrogator
Jemaine Clement as Oliver Bird

Legion returns February 2018

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MUTO123
MUTO123 - 7/13/2017, 3:17 PM
I still haven't gotten past the first episode. I've got the whole season recorded, so I'll try again soon.
JDL
JDL - 7/13/2017, 3:33 PM
@MUTO123 - I made it halfway through the second. It's done well but just not to my taste.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 7/13/2017, 3:20 PM
Best comic book based TV show out there.. and yes, that does include the Netflix ones.
ODanil
ODanil - 7/13/2017, 3:29 PM
@RorMachine - from this year, yes. hands down.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 7/13/2017, 3:32 PM
I love Legion so much for two reasons:

1) It's just a great show in it's own right

2) It proves all these idiots who say so and so character can't support their own movie or their own show how absolutely wrong they are. They made a great show based off of Legion of all characters, of course you can make a great movie based upon any of these superheroes, especially the ones with decades of history and staying power.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 7/13/2017, 3:48 PM
Still haven't finished episode 2
BurningBeard
BurningBeard - 7/13/2017, 4:18 PM
I really dig this show, baby!
connorblaze
connorblaze - 7/13/2017, 4:21 PM
Probably my favourite show hands down now. Although it did frustrate me that a lot wasn't answered by the finale and I expected some amazing twist or revelation that never came. But I accept that this is the kind of show that won't answer everything and a lot is done stylistically. But I have a nagging mind. I'm still [frick]ing tortured trying to figure out who the guy camoflaging himself on the tree walls was in the first episode, even though I know it was nothing and most likely just the director trying to show insanity and surrealism. But i want everything to mean something or be something or go explained. Which makes it wierd that this is my favourite show...

Anyway I'm really excited for more Oliver. I loved David and Lenny but he was the stand out for me.

Though this scene confuses me. Oliver being trapped in his own mind while the shadow king uses his body I get. But Lenny? She's dead right? Shadow king shouldnt have to trap her or appease her, he just looks like her when he wants cause she's dead right?
BlindAl9
BlindAl9 - 7/13/2017, 4:49 PM
Yeah! Bring it. I'm excited for this show. I'm kinda curious to see how they handle the relationship between Lenny and Oliver. Hopefully it's gonna be lit. I really liked the first season, I think it's the best so far
scapegoatjones
scapegoatjones - 7/13/2017, 4:57 PM
they way they visually presented the story was cinematically an achievement for television. really solid, such an odd retro-for-the-future look. and the cast is d o p e.
StormXmen123
StormXmen123 - 7/13/2017, 5:08 PM
@scapegoatjones - I have to agree. Even if the story wasn't good it was visually great. I hope given its reception, the second season has a bigger buget; though the practical effects and makeup were great, I found most of CGI to be subpar. They just seemed to really clash with the fanatic practical designs of the show.
scapegoatjones
scapegoatjones - 7/13/2017, 7:04 PM
@StormXmen123 - I kind of enjoyed the campiness of the treatment with the ice cube safe haven / him being frozen take. creatively done.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 7/13/2017, 5:40 PM
It so weird that the article described them as being used by the Shadow
King when Lenny IS Farouk. She is an extension of his powers that he used to mess with David so that is weird. Unless she is starting to become her own and independent from Shadow King.

Kinda like how in the comics Legion/David's personalities can become their own.

Interesting.
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