‘The Gifted’ Trailer: Bryan Singer Expands The X-Men Universe To Fox
By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 15, 2017 6:30 am EST
The new trailer for The Gifted lays out all these things, but is it actually an intriguing show? That remains to be seen. But Amy Acker is in it, so they have that going for them at least.
After last week’s brief teaser for The Gifted, we’ve been — I’m going to say it — gifted with a full-length official trailer for the Fox/Marvel series helmed by Singer and created by Burn Notice’s Matt Nix.
The story follows the Strucker family led by Stephen Moyer and Acker, whose two teen kids manifest mutant powers. After the sensitive, loner boy (Percy Hynes White) of the family gets bullied and unleashes some Carrie-style telepathic powers on his school, the parents take their kids into hiding, joining an underground network of persecuted mutants.
Here’s the official synopsis for The Gifted:
The “ordinary” Strucker family are supposedly original characters, though their last name is curiously similar to an infamous Marvel villain, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker — one of the original leaders of HYDRA. For now though, they seem fairly harmless, on a mission to protect their kids with the help of established mutants like Blink (Jamie Chung, taking over the role from X-Men: Days of Future Past’s Fan Bingbing) and Thunderbird (Blair Redford), as well as Eclipse (Sean Teale), who agrees to help them in exchange for information on Magneto’s daughter Polaris (Emma Dumont).
Action-adventure family drama THE GIFTED, from Marvel, tells the story of a suburban couple [Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker] whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children [Natalie Alyn Lind and Percy Hynes White] 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.
