With Bryan Singer now on board to direct, casting is underway on Marvel and Fox’s X-Men TV pilot, with EW reporting that Blair Redford (Switched at Birth, Satisfaction) has signed on to play Sam, described as “the strong-headed Native American leader of the underground network.”
The TV series, which has Matt Nix (Burn Notice) on board as writer and showrunner, will follow two ordinary parents who are forced to go on the run from a hostile government after discovering their children posses the X-Gene, and link up with an underground network of mutants.
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The as-yet-untitled series is the second X-Men TV project from Marvel and Fox after Legion, which premiered on FX this week. Read our review here.