Quaid, Walsh join Stewart's 'Legion'Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand and Willa Holland will join Paul Bettany in "Legion," the Screen Gems thriller that marks the feature directing debut of Scott Stewart. . . .
Scripted by Stewart and Peter Schink, the thriller casts Bettany as the archangel Michael, the only one standing between mankind and an apocalypse, after God loses faith in humanity. Man's lone hope rests with a group of strangers who must deliver a baby they realize is Christ in his second coming. . . .
Variety, March 27
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Got that? According to the earlier story, God sends his angels to wipe out mankind; but according to this story, Jesus is about to be, uh, born again. How do these two plot points fit together, I ask? (And like I ask at
my blog, why is it that so many end-of-the-world movies -- from
The Final Conflict to
Bless the Child -- operate from the presumption that the Second Coming will be just like the first coming, with Jesus being born as a baby and all that!?)