While Marvel is planning to start their own streaming service sometime next year with their own series, there is a part of their superhero universe you'll be able to watch this Autumn: TV series THE GIFTED, based on their X-Men franchise, which starts its ten episode run on Fox October 2nd starring Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker as parents who take their children on the run after they discover their mutant abilities.
SUPER HEROES ON THE RUN The series from writer Matt Nix and X-Men director Bryan Singer
focuses on a suburban couple (Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker) whose ordinary
lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children
The Gifted starts this October on Fox
possess
mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the
family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to
survive.
THE GALLERY OF SUPERHEROES
The series will be executive produced by Underworld's Len Wiseman, who is also directing together with Bryan Singer, with
Stephen Moyer in the lead role of Reed Strucker: A father trying to balance his
Sean Teale is Eclipse, who manipulates photons
family responsibilities with his job as a district attorney.
Amy Acker is Caitlin Strucker:
A mother and nurse struggling with her split from Reed and increasingly challenging teenage children played by Natalie
Emma Dumont can control magnetism as Polaris
Alyn Lind and Percy Hynes White. Sean Teale is Marcos Diaz or Eclipse: A rebellious mutant who can absorb and manipulate photons.
Jamie Chung is Clarice Fong or Blink: A sarcastic, lively mutant with teleportation powers.
Coby Bell is Jace Turner: A man struggling with
Blair Redford is mutant leader Thunderbird
the cold-blooded requirements of his job.
Emma Dumont is Lorna Dane or Polaris: A brave and loyal mutant whose abilities include controlling magnetism.
Blair Redford is John Proudstar or Thunderbird: A
Jamie Chung is Blink, a teleporter
strong-willed mutant, leader of the underground community. Jermaine Rivers will guest star as Shatter: A mutant who can turn his skin into a hard, protective crystal. Elena Satine as Dreamer: A mutant that can add or subtract others' memories.
Disney's big screen adaptation of Madeleine L'engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME has added Reese Witherspoon! She will play Mrs Whatsit in the story of a girl who, with her brother and a friend, goes on an unexpected journey into alternate dimensions on a mission to bring home their father. Chris Pine plays the father, Gugu Mbatha Raw is her mother with Oprah Winfrey also in the cast.
'I, REBEL' SF SERIES In TV news, David Goyer is to produce new sf series I, REBEL, about
an astronaut, lost in space for eight years, who crash lands on Earth to
find the world colonized and enslaved by a humanoid alien race. His
rise from slave to rebel leader will spark a revolution.
MOVING 'GIFTED' TRAILER
CHRIS EVANS & OCTAVIA SPENCER
A new trailer has been revealed for touching drama movie GIFTED with our dearly beloved Chris Evans! Out next April, exactly on your spy's birthday, it follows Frank Adler (Chris Evans), a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven year old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary! Octavia Spencer also stars!
A piece of delightful movie news my ladies will like: McDreamy is joining the third Bridget Jones movie! Patrick Dempsey will star in BRIDGET JONES' BABY although it isn't known whom he will play alongside Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth who return to their original roles together with director Sharon Maguire who helmed the first movie. The movie will be based on the newspaper columns that Helen Fielding wrote and not on her BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY bestselling book and will follow the mishap-prone British publishing executive as she enters her 40s and finds herself unexpectedly expecting! Hugh Grant is not returning to the franchise.
'UNDERWORLD 5' CASTS
BRADLEY JAMES AND TOBIAS MENZIES AS VILLAINS Meanwhile, besides landing, earlier this summer, OUTLANDER and ROME
star TobiasMenzies UNDER- WORLD 5 has now cast MERLIN's dearest hunk Bradley
James and gorgeous Clementine Nicholson too. Joining Kate Beckinsale,
who is returning as vampire warrior Selena, and Theo James, Nicholson
will play Lena, the Nordic Coven’s greatest warrior and daughter of
Vidar! Bradley James will be the male villain. The movie, which starts
shooting next month in Prague, will see Tobias Menzies playing werewolf
Marius, a mysterious new Lycan leader!
OCTAVIA SPENCER JOINS
CHRIS EVANS IN 'GIFTED'
Afew weeks ago I've announced that our dearly beloved Chris Evans will lead the cast in GIFTED and now he is joined in it by Oscar winner Octavia Spencer with whom he already starred in outstanding sf thriller SNOWPIERCER. The film follows Frank Adler (ChrisEvans), a deliberate underachiever who is raising his niece Mary (McKenna Grace) in rural Florida. When he enrols her in school for the first time, she is labeled as GIFTED. All Frank wants is for Mary to have a normal life, but standing in his way is her grandmother Evelyn and the dilemma that he doesn’t have custody of the child. He decides to take legal action. Octavia Spencer plays Frank's outspoken landlord and a good friend to both him and Mary. Lindsay Duncan plays Evelyn, Frank’s mother who is aristocratic and proper and who took over the custody of Mary after her daughter committed suicide.
Our favourite of Hollywood hunks, Chris Evans is one of those big blockbuster stars that also like to give strong dramatic performances and one of such is expected to be seen in the latest movie he has joined: in GIFTED he will play an underachiever named Frank Adler, a man raising his young niece Mary in rural Florida, who is quickly labelled as gifted after she starts school. Frank soon finds himself locked in a custody battle, fighting the girl's mother Evelyn for the right to raise Mary - and he's prepared to sue.The movie is to be helmed by SPIDERMAN director Marc Webb.
SF MOVIE/TV UPDATES
ISABEL LUCAS, LUKE FORD JOIN KELLAN LUTZ'S 'SFv1' SF FILM In today's sf news, Australian science fiction adventure SFv1 has
added Isabel Lucas from IMMORTALS and TRANSFORMERS and Luke Ford to the
cast lead by Kellan Lutz and Rachel Griffiths. Set in the future when
humanity has spread out into interplanetary colonies, the film follows
Sy (Kellan Lutz) , a drifter who falls in with Kane (Daniel MacPherson),
an off-world military contractor trying to rescue his daughter Indi from peril while evading a global crisis caused by the
military contracting company he works for. 'DAWN' SF NOVEL TO BECOME TV SERIES Meanwhile,
Octavia E. Butler's sf novel DAWN, from her Lilith’s Brood saga, will be
turned into a TV series by Allen Bain. The sci-fi tale tells of
humanity’s last survivors who are saved by an ancient alien race just
before the destruction of the earth. They are given the choice of either
mating with the aliens to create a new mixed species, or die as the
last humans.
'MISS YOU ALREADY' TRAILER
TONI COLLETTE AND DREW BARRYMORE ARE BEST FRIENDS
The second trailer has been released for moving drama starring Toni Collette and DrewBarymore MISS YOU ALREADYout this November. It is an honest and powerful story following two best friends, Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore), as they navigate life's highs and lows. Inseparable since they were young girls, they can't remember a time they didn't share everything... Secrets, clothes, even boyfriends... But what happens when both are hit with life-altering news - one has cancer, the other gets pregnant. The drama celebrates the bond of true friendship that ultimately can never be broken, even in life's toughest moments.
