Fox Television is buying full into their X-Men franchise rights. Earlier this year we go the Noah Hawley created series, Legion, about the multiple personality plagued son of Professor Charles Xavier, David Haller. That series went on to receive much fan praise and critical acclaim. And now, another show that Fox announced last year, The Gifted, will hit our television screens October 2nd.

That series, brought to life by Burn Notice creator Matt Nix, will see Reed (Stephen Moyer) and Kate Strucker (Amy Acker) discovering that their two kids, Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind) and Andy (Percy Hynes White) are mutants. They then have to go on the run from the very government organization that Reed used to work for, which brings them into working with the underground mutants that Reed had spent his career fighting.

 
That team is comprised mostly of mutants we recognize from the comics — the magnetism controlling Polaris (Emma Dumont), the teleporting Blink (Jamie Chung), and the super strong, senses-heightened Thunderbird (John Proudstar). There’s also a mutant created specifically for the series named Eclipse, as played by Sean Teale. However, we’ve since started learning of more mutant castings with Elena Satine announced as the Morlock Dreamer, (known as Beautiful Dreamer in the comics). She has the power to take out a person’s memories and replace them with new ones, if she so desires.


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Now, today, Dreamer is getting a new Morlock friend in actor Jermaine Rivers who will be playing the Geoff Johns created Morlock, Shatter, who has the power to turn items into crystal, which of course he can then shatter — hence his name. In fact, according to his Instagram post, which is where the confirmation of an earlier rumor came, he noted that you can already see him in the trailer, saying that the “First trailer already showed a glimpse of his look, in one shot of the mutant underground network of Thunderbird.” So, go back and take a look!

With this being the second Morlock announced to be a part of the cast, it seems likely that we’ll see a couple more Morlock castings in the future. They are sort of a perfect underground network to turn to for disappearing, as they all live in the sewers and old, forgotten architecture of the past, operating as a sort of mutant hobo underground.

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