November 23, 2024

XMF • the SUPER

Celebrating The Continuing Legacy Of X-Men Films • Covering Our Most-Anticipated Genre Film And TV Projects

Jamie Chung cast as Blink in Fox TV’s upcoming GIFTED pilot!

Deadline reports that actress Jamie Chung has been cast as Blink in Matt Nix’s GIFTED pilot and series for Fox TV.

The pilot episode will be filmed soon (next month=) with X-Men film director Bryan singer. It will focus on two ordinary parents who discover their children have mutant powers. Forced to run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.

The character was last portrayed by Fan Bingbing in DAYS OF FUTURE PAST.

Blink is described as having a “naturally strong exuberant personality that has taken a hit after a sudden and traumatic upheaval of her life. As she adjusts to the new people and places that are suddenly ‘home’, Clarice is slowly becoming herself again.”

Nix, Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory are executive produce for 20th Century Fox TV and Marvel Television.

She joins actor Blair Redford, whose been cast in a undisclosed role as the “leader of an underground network of mutants.”

Source: Deadline