Piping hot “Gotham” player Jamie Chung (she played Vicki’s aunt Val Vale) has been cast as the teleporting Clarice “Blink” Fong in another comic-book TV project, this time from Fox and Marvel and set in the X-Men universe.
The untitled Marvel/Fox project sounds a teensy bit like Stephen King’s “Firestarter,” with a family sporting superpowered mutants on the run from sinister government operatives. (Of course I’ve always secretly believed “Carrie” and “Firestarter” would never have existed had King not read Marvel’s X-Men comics.)
Masterminding the project is Matt Nix, the writer-producer whose earlier TV creations include “Complications,” “The Comedians,” “The Good Guys” and “Burn Notice.”
The Fox project is not to be confused with FX’s eight-episode “Legion” series, starring “Downton Abbey” lead Dan Stevens and based on the Marvel comics about Charles Xavier’s unstable mutant bastard David Haller.
Fox can't make an X-Men-related TV show without Disney's permission, and this pilot suggests to me that we're getting closer to the day when Magneto, Wolverine and Sue Storm will frolic alongside Phil Coulson, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Spider-Man in one big onscreen universe.
