Following yesterday’s trailer [watch it here], Fox has released four promo images from the pilot episode of The Gifted along with character portraits featuring the cast of the upcoming X-Men series; take a look here…
Meanwhile, as revealed in the trailer, The Gifted will take place in a world where the X-Men have vanished. However, showrunner Matt Nix has revealed that the mutant superheroes’ whereabouts will be of the show’s “central mysteries”:
“In our world, one of the things we’ll be unpacking is the specific relationship of this group of characters to the X-Men,” Nix tells Variety. “It’s in the trailer that the X-Men are gone. And that’s not a dodge, like ‘The X-Men are gone and we’re never going to mention them again!’ We’re going to be exploring it. It’s a huge deal to these guys. It’s a huge deal in the world. It’s one of the central mysteries of the show.”
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Action-adventure family drama THE GIFTED, from Marvel, tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children 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 Gifted is set to premiere on Fox on Monday, October 2nd, and featured a cast that includes Stephen Moyer (True Blood), Amy Acker (Person of Interest), Natalie Alyn Lind (Gotham), Emma Dumont (Pretty Little Liars), Jamie Chung (Gotham), Blair Redford (Switched at Birth), Sean Teale (Incorporated), Coby Bell (Burn Notice) and Joseph Morgan (The Originals).