{"id":46846,"date":"2013-07-29T10:47:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T09:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=46846"},"modified":"2013-07-29T14:42:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T13:42:01","slug":"legion-tv-show-pilot-dominion-ordered-by-syfy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/legion-tv-show-pilot-dominion-ordered-by-syfy\/","title":{"rendered":"Legion TV show pilot Dominion ordered by Syfy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_46849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46849\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Legion.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46849\" alt=\"Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson and Paul Bettany in Legion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Legion.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Legion.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Legion-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson and Paul Bettany in Legion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Scott Stewart&#x2019;s biblical B-movie <em>Legion<\/em>, which starred Paul Bettany as a renegade Angel Michael out to protect a pregnant waitress from the armies of Heaven, will be turned into a 90-minute TV show pilot by Syfy.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart himself will direct the pilot from a script by <em>Sons Of Anarchy<\/em> writer Vaun Wilmott. <a title=\"Deadline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/07\/syfy-gives-pilot-order-to-dominion-as-quartet-of-other-projects-heat-up\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports the plot as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#x201C;<em>Dominion<\/em> is described as an epic supernatural action drama set 25 years in the future after a war between an army of angels and mankind has transformed the world. It follows the perilous journey of a rebellious young soldier who discovers he&#x2019;s the unlikely savior of humanity.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>Syfy announced last week that they&#x2019;re planning a series based on Terry Gilliam&#x2019;s <em>12 Monkeys<\/em>, as well as Timur Bekmambetov&#x2019;s <em>Warriors Of Oz<\/em> miniseries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a title=\"Legion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Legion-Blu-ray-Region-Free-Bettany\/dp\/B003GAN512\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1375090753&sr=8-3&keywords=legion&tag=scifinowmag-21%20\">buy <em>Legion<\/em> on Blu-ray for &#xA3;7.78 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Bettany&#8217;s machine gun-toting angel B-movie Legion becomes TV show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":46849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[1002,960],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Legion.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}