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Legend by Marie Lu TV Series - Potential Release Date, Cast, Plot, and Everything You Need to Know


Legend by Marie Lu TV Series: Potential Release Date, Cast, Plot, and Everything You Need to Know

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Young adult novel author Marie Lu started her career on a high note as she wrote her first trilogy, the Legend series.

It has been announced that it will be a film then it was changed to a TV series.

Here is everything you need to know with the plot, cast, release date, and updates about the show.

Legend: Cast, Production, Release Date, and Updates

In a report from Deadline in November 2021, Legend is to be adapted into a television series where Marie Lu would write the pilot episode together with Supergirl and Teen Wolf scribe, Lindsay Sturman. Marie Lu, herself, posted it on Instagram.

Details on the show remain scarce but the ages of June and Day are confirmed to be adjusted from fifteen to eighteen. There are no announcements yet on who the cast of the show would be.

To date, the production of the Legend series remains quiet and many are looking forward for an update soon.

[This article would be updated once the official cast members are announced.]

In a 2015 post by Marie Lu, herself, on Tumblr, she mentioned that she envisions Metias in the person of someone like Ben Barnes which has been what Metias looks like for her as she wrote the book.

At first, Legend is supposed to be a movie when it was first announced that it will be getting an on-screen adaptation. With the book series getting a lot of traction, its fanbase is already established.

The rights to the title was first sold by Lionsgate and the producers of Twilight were set to produce. However, just as things are going on a straight line, fate had a different plan for Legend.

However, in 2018, it was later sold to BCDF Pictures where it was decided that Legend will instead be a TV series rather than a movie, and Joseph Muszynski was tapped to pen the script.

Currently, Marie Lu is working on another young adult novel titled Stars and Smoke which will be released on March 28, 2023 about a superstar, Winter Young, who gets caught up in a spy organization.

Other works of Marie Lu include The Young Elites trilogy, Warcross duology, and Skyhunter duology.

Related: Will There Be Another Legend Book? 2022 Updates and Everything We Know So Far

What Will Legend Be About? What is the Plot?

What Will Legend Be About? What is the Plot?
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Legend by Marie Lu TV Series: Release Date, Cast, Plot, and Everything You Need to Know

Legend follows June Iparis and Daniel “Day” Altan Wing who are 15-year-olds living on the different ends of the economic spectrum with June living a comfortable life and studying at a prestigious school while Day lives his every day in the streets and slums as a wanted criminal in a flooded and fortified Los Angeles.

June is stellar, a military prodigy, who is the only person to ever get a perfect score on the Trial, a test that determines what a child’s role would be in the future of the country.

Orphaned at a young age, she was raised by her older brother, Metias.

Day, on the other hand, is an infamous criminal wanted for stealing, trying to live day by day in the impoverished slums of the city.

Orphaned as well, only his older brother, John, and younger brother, Eden, remains his only family.

In fate’s twisted world, June and Day got together as they unveil the truth behind the Republic.

The Legend book series of Marie Lu is a trilogy.

There is the first book, Legend, which introduced the characters to each other, then, there's Prodigy, where June and the Patriots saves Day from being executed after he was tagged as a traitor.

The last is Champion, fitting of its title, where June proves to be one as she is the only key to the defense of their country as a new strain of the plague threatens the Republic and its border cities to go into war.

Legend series has no release date yet. There are no updates yet as to the production of the series.

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