Legion - Season 2 - Navid Negahban Cast as Amahl Farouk, Returning in April + TCA Teases

Dan Stevens wants a dance sequence in every season of #LegionFX. “Season 3: polka.” Says Noah Hawley. #TCA18

— Legion (@LegionFX) January 5, 2018

Onscreen chapter titles in the #LegionFX season premiere were physically built and filmed on set, not just inserted later. #TCA18

— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) January 5, 2018

Here is your #LegionFX cast at #TCA18! pic.twitter.com/Q38AmksWZM

— Legion Hub (@Legion_Hub) January 5, 2018

That’s it for the #LegionFX panel! Psyched for you to all see Season 2 when it debuts in April! #TCA18

— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) January 5, 2018

Choreographers Rich + Tone (who worked on Netflix’s THE GET DOWN) put together a dance battle for the @LegionFX S2 premiere. (It’s, duh, great.) #TCA18

— Joanna Robinson (@jowrotethis) January 5, 2018

Rachel Keller says she feels fortunate to have stumbled into her gigs on #Legion and #Fargo. Says #Legion world is particularly playful. #TCA18

— Diane Gordon (@thesurfreport) January 5, 2018

Dan Stevens says Tom Baker was his Doctor from when he watched #DoctorWho. Says he watched a lot of British comedy. #TCA18

— Diane Gordon (@thesurfreport) January 5, 2018

"We’re not just doing a genre show, we’re doing a surrealist piece and that is a total treat” - @rachelryekeller. #LegionFX #TCA18

— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) January 5, 2018

"Mental illness can also be cultural," Noah Hawley on David's new reality in #LegionFX Season 2. #TCA18

— Aaron Pruner (@AaronFlux) January 5, 2018

#LegionFX Season 2 thematically: “If the first year was the story of an insane man in a sane world, now I’m looking at David as a sane man in an insane world.” -Noah Hawley #TCA18

— Legion (@LegionFX) January 5, 2018

#Legion: David has issues of trust and figuring out who is on his side. Is he a force for good or evil, asks Dan Stevens. #TCA18

— Lauren Cox (@Iaurencox) January 5, 2018

In Season 2, @thatdanstevens says David will face, "Who exactly has rescued him and what have they rescued him from? Is he a force for good or evil and either way, is he being used?” #LegionFX #TCA18

— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) January 5, 2018

#Legion: The Shadow King might be out of David, but now it's about his relationship to "this thing that has occupied him for so long", says Dan Stevens. #TCA18

— Lauren Cox (@Iaurencox) January 5, 2018

Discussing the more offbeat style of #LegionFX, @noahhawley notes the source material, saying, “Originally it was called The Uncanny X-Men and that word uncanny is very specific.” #TCA18

— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) January 5, 2018

The next season will be opened up even further with an outside meadow scene we saw here and some desert sequences filmed in SoCal. #TCA18

— Joanna Robinson (@jowrotethis) January 5, 2018

Creator Noah Hawley gives a hint on the fabulous sets of #LegionFX Season 2:
"Making something unexpected is important.." #TCA18

— Legion (@LegionFX) January 5, 2018

Just asked Noah Hawley about the music of Season 2. Will it still be Pink Floyd-inspired? His response: To expect "some great needle drops." #LegionFX #TCA18

— Aaron Pruner (@AaronFlux) January 5, 2018

.@noahhawley says with Lenny,
"This has been a traumatic experience for her as well.
What’s on the other side of that?
What’s been her culpability?”

The questions @evilhag has for him about who the real Lenny is have been “channeled into the work.” #LegionFX #TCA18

— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) January 5, 2018

"It's really scary to play a character that you don't know who she is. You're being used as a vessel." @evilhag #Legion #TCA18

— Lauren Cox (@Iaurencox) January 5, 2018

The new season of #LegionFX premieres in April. The cast joins us now for a look at season two #TCA18

— The TCA (@OfficialTCA) January 5, 2018

Noah Hawley just announced the Shadow King replacement for #LegionFX. Navid Negahban will be Amahl Farouk. #TCA18

— Aaron Pruner (@AaronFlux) January 5, 2018

The @legionfx cast members say they often don't know what's going on in the show - Dan Stevens says he usually reads the scripts 3-4 times. #TCA18

— Diane Gordon (@thesurfreport) January 5, 2018

The new actor in the role is Navid Negahban—you might recognize him best from HOMELAND. He's FANTASTIC in this scene. #TCA18

— Joanna Robinson (@jowrotethis) January 5, 2018

#LegionFX panel begins with scene from Season 2 showing David waking up in a wheat field where he encounters Amahl Farouk/the Shadow King (played by Navid Negahban) at a fortune teller’s table, who tells him “You and I are gods!". #TCA18

— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) January 5, 2018

Bryan Singer Removed as EP Amid Sexual Harrasement Allegations

EXCLUSIVE: X-Men helmer Bryan Singer is no longer an executive producer on the X-Men universe-themed FX drama series Legion as it is ready to launch its second season.

“Bryan asked to take his name off the show, so we have done that,” Legion creator/executive producer Noah Hawley told Deadline following the Legion TCA panel.

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