At the panel for The Gifted today at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel and FOX showed off lots of new footage from their upcoming X-Men based TV series. As we reported earlier, showrunner Matt Nix confirmed at that panel that the show is set in a different timeline than the X-Men movies -- a timeline where the X-Men have disappeared, by the way -- but as the scenes screened today proved, that doesn’t mean that mutant powers aren’t flying aplenty in the world of The Gifted.
In the first scene showed, Blink (Jamie Chung) is on the run from the police while a group of other mutants are also attempting to track her. They are the light-projecting Eclipse (Sean Teale), the mistress of magnetism Lorna (Emma Dumont) and the tracker Thunderbird (Blair Redford). They find the wrecked top of a police car, which had earlier been accidentally caught in one of Blink’s teleportation fields.
They find Blink hiding in a warehouse, and they explain that they just want to help her. But more cops arrive, and Lorna (also known as Polaris in the comics) starts zapping their cars. While trying to escape, Eclipse catches a bullet and Lorna freaks out, using her powers to bash the offending cop again and again against a wall. She’s then hit with a Taser by a police officer, but sends the electric signal back through the device at him. Still, she is apprehended and Thunderbird escapes with the injured Eclipse.
The next scene introduces us to Reed and Kate Strucker (Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker), who are meeting with school officials about their son Andy (Percy Hynes White) who they fear is being bullied at school. Their daughter Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind) seems better adjusted as she prepares to go to the school dance.
Reed, we learn, works to prosecute mutants who are on the run. He meets with Lorna, who is now being held in a plastic jail cell that is reminiscent of Magneto’s cell from the first two X-Men movies. He wants information from her, but she resists and even gives him a dose of her powers when he makes the mistake of entering her cell.
Back to the Strucker kids, they go to the school dance which you just know is going to go full Carrie… which it does when, while being tormented by bullies, Andy’s mutant powers manifest themselves and practically destroys the gymnasium where the dance is being held. With the building collapsing around them, Lauren reveals that she too has mutant powers and can create some kind of force fields to protect herself and her brother. One wonders how dear old dad will feel about prosecuting his own kids…
The footage had an abundance of mutant power action, which surprised me a bit. While we didn’t get too much of a sense of Blink, Eclipse and Thunderbird’s characters from this footage, the Strucker family dynamic was pretty well represented, and already one can tell that the mere presence of Amy Acker will elevate The Gifted. I’m definitely curious to see more of where this goes, and we’ll find out when the show debuts in September on FOX.
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