X-Men series executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner took to Twitter to saying the title of FOX’s upcoming X-Men TV series, Gifted. Donner posted a photo of the cast at a table read for the pilot episode as well, whic also made it look like Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals) had joined the cast.
Later, Entertainment Weekly announced that “Gifted” is not yet the title of the show, but it is the current working title. hey also report that Joseph Morgan has not been cast in the film. He was merely filling in for the read-through.
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Cast reading of "Gifted" #Gifted pic.twitter.com/fQGgfoqZrl
— Lauren Shuler Donner (@ShuDonner) March 11, 2017
The series stars Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, Natalie Alyn Lind, Percy Hynes White, Sean Teale, Blair Redford, with Jamie Chung as the mutant Blink, and Natalie Alyn Lind as the mutant Polaris.
Produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Marvel Television, the series will focus on two ordinary parents (Moyer and Acker) who discover 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.