Fox’s Marvel Pilot Casts Geek Favorite Amy Acker
Fox’s Marvel show has found its female lead, and she’ll be well known to fanboys and fangirls and geeky types of all stripes.Amy Ackeris boarding theX-Mensorta-spinoff, along withBunheads’Emma Dumont(she’ll play Polaris) andPercy Hynes White. They joinJamie Chung,Stephen Moyer, andBlair Redford.
Created byMatt Nix(Burn Notice), the untitled drama pilot centers on two ordinary parents who discover their children have mutant powers. With a hostile government chasing after them, they go on the run and link up with an underground network of mutants who are fighting for survival.Acker will play the mother, Kate Stewart, who’s recently separated from her husband Reed (Moyer). When her family is upended, she finds her inner strength.Natalie Alyn Lindstars as the couple’s teenage daughter.
Acker’s no stranger to geeky properties with obsessive followings. She first came to prominence as Fred onAngel, since then she’s been onAngel,Dollhouse,No Ordinary Family,Person of Interst, andCon Man. She had a splashy guest starring role on another Marvel-produced show,Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as love of Coulson’s life.
As previously reported, Redford will play the leader of the underground mutants and Chung will star as Blink, who has the power of teleportation. Now Dumont has been set to play Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris, described as “a strong-willed, brave and loyal mutant who has the ability to manipulate magnetism.” And White rounds out this round of casting as Andy, “a sensitive kid and bit of a loner, who keeps to himself to avoid the turmoil he faces at school and at home.”
TV casting isn’t a race, exactly, but if it were one, Marvel’sInhumansand Fox’s X-Men spinoff would be neck-and-neck. When one scoops up aGame of Thronesalum, the other gets aGothamstar. When one digs up aTrue Bloodvet, the other looks toHell on Wheels. Just today,Inhumansgrabbed an actor fromStar Wars: The Force Awakens, so naturally it was time for Fox one-up them by casting Acker.
Bryan Singerwill direct the pilot of the as-yet-untitled drama, and executive produce along with Nix, Fox’sLauren Shuler DonnerandSimon Kinberg, and Marvel TV’sJeph LoebandJim Chory.
