Blink is back again.
Marvel announced Jamie Chung has been cast to star in the Untitled FOX Marvel Project from Bryan Singer and Matt Nix.
Chung will star in a series regular role as Clarice Fong, better known as Blink, described as “a sarcastic and lively tomboy. Clarice’s naturally strong exuberance has taken a hit after a sudden and traumatic upheaval of her life. As she adjusts to the new people and places that are suddenly ‘home,’ Clarice is slowly becoming herself again.”
Blink appeared in a future timeline in X-Men: Days of Future Past played by Fan BingBing.
Who is this mutant?
You could say Blink is a James Dean of the X-Men universe. Claire first appeared in X-Men: Phalanx Covenant, a storyline that introduced a new generation of young mutants who would become the team known as Generation X. Blink sacrificed herself and died on her first adventure that freed her fellow young mutants from alien hunters. In the Age of Apocalypse alternate universe timeline Blink returned as a member of Magneto’s X-Men.
Clarice’s mutant power is teleportation. She could use it as a weapon by capturing enemies halfway in her “blink wave” and cutting them apart.
The fan-favorite Blink would return again as a member of the time-traveling mutants known as the Exiles and reunite with other X-Men, New Mutants and Generation X team members.
Marvel previously revealed last year FOX has made a put pilot commitment for a new Marvel action-adventure series.
The upcoming project written by Matt Nix and directed by Bryan Singer, will focus on two ordinary parents 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.
The series will be produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Marvel Television, with 20th Century Fox handling physical production.
Chung joins Blair Redford, who was previously cast as another mutant, Sam, the strong-headed leader of the underground network. (There’s no official word on the characters’s last name or code-name but there is a Sam Guthrie aka Cannonball, a founding member of the New Mutants and X-Man.)
This is the second television project between the team behind the X-Men film franchise/20th Century Fox Television and Marvel Television. Matt Nix (APB, Burn Notice) will write the pilot script and serve as an Executive Producer. X-Men film franchise team Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg and Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory of Marvel Television serve as Executive Producers. Legion, the first co-production is currently airing Wednesdays at 10pm on FX.
By Editor