Comic-Con, 2009. “Legion” interviews continue with director and co-writer Scott Stewart. This followed actors Paul Bettany and then Tyrese Gibson. The film sees release on January 22^nd next year and also includes, Jon Tenney, Tyrese Gibson, Lucas Black, Adrianne Palicki, Kate Walsh, Charles S. Dutton, Willa Holland and Kevin Duran.

Stewart’s asked about whether this is a shoot ‘em up-styled film and responds “There is a great deal of that. We have a lot of other stuff going on in the movie too though. There’s a real mythology…we took a lot of effort in that and the character story is important to me, it’s kind of how I came to it as a writer, just focusing on that. I mean movies when it’s about a bunch of characters that for some part or extended part of the movie are trapped together…that you kind of have to care about them and if you don’t care about them, you’re not going to care much about the movie.”

He talks about his influences for the film saying “A really influential film for me is ‘The Terminator’ and there’s definitely a homage to ‘The Terminator’ in this movie. But that’s a movie that’s about some big ideas and it explores them in a total rollercoaster ride way. I mean that’s my goal as a director, I think every time now is to kind of dig into some juicy stuff in terms of thematic ideas and just make it a really fun ride.”

“Well, the main idea of the movie…I mean Paul has a line in the film where he says ‘The last time God lost faith in man he sent a flood, this time he sent what you see outside.’ And that’s sort of like what if that happened? What do we do? And what do these particular people in this particular situation do when it turns out that they’re important in the events that are transpiring. They have the fate of mankind in their midst.”

He talks about action movies and says “I love action movies man! You have to work really hard to kind of keep making them interesting and I think the first thing you do is to try find an actor that is not the kind of actor that you would have seen in a movie like that. You know if you think more recently like Robert Downey Jr. in ‘Iron Man’ or Christian Bale in ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Batman’ or back to the day of Bruce Willis in ‘Die Hard.’ I was really interested in the idea of seeing…there aren’t that many actors you can say you are a being that is…we don’t even know how old, you’re timeless, and you have this thousand-yard stare almost like Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood. How many actors can really embody that? Not many actors can and instill that believably. So I pitched the idea of Paul and the saw it immediately and embraced it. And I just think it’s really fun to try to show the world that there’s a side of him that they hadn’t seen before. That he can be a great actor and also be a great action star.”

“The angels have angel armor, they have angel weapons. They’re wings are very ferocious, they’re cutting weapons. It was a really interesting idea showing angels that were these mercenary fighting machines. They have all sorts of strange weapons. They have strange technology and they have these halo collars that I call ‘Heavenly LoJacks’ that you need to uncouple. Paul breaks his off at the beginning of the movie and frees himself so he can’t be tracked.”

He’s asked about the inspiration for the angels and says “It’s fun to imagine that character. I mean you look at the early biblical art and just part of those periods and you see the Archangel Michael with the sword and armor and on fire and all this kind of stuff. Well that’s cool…today’s version of that? Machine guns.”