BURN NOTICE Star Coby Bell Is The Latest To Land Key Role In Bryan Singer's X-MEN TV Series

BURN NOTICE Star Coby Bell Is The Latest To Land Key Role In Bryan Singer's X-MEN TV Series

At least one member of the Burn Notice cast will be reuniting with Matt Nix for his upcoming X-Men family drama and you can find details on who Coby Bell is playing here after the jump...

By JoshWilding - Mar 08, 2017 07:03 AM EST
Filed Under: The Gifted
Source: Deadline
Accoridng to Deadline, Coby Bell has landed a co-starring role in Fox's untitled X-Men family drama and it sounds like we could have the show's first villain! According to the character description, The Burn Notice alum will play Jace Turner, "a weathered man who quietly wrestles with the moral ambiguities of a job that regularly requires cold-blooded, calculating efficiency on a day-to-day basis."

I've checked and there's no comic book character with that name in the Marvel Universe, but he definitely sounds like someone who could be in charge of something like the Sentinel programme! 

The cast of this X-Men TV series is coming together very quickly now, though only a handful of those who have jouned the show appear to be based on characters who hail from the comic books. 


The show is set to 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 Sentinels have been confirmed as appearing while Nix has been previously quoted as saying that the untitled series will be set in the same world as the films. 
 
What do you guys think of this latest casting addition? Let us know in the comments section.
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Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 3/8/2017, 7:59 AM
Cautiously optimistic about this, Legion's been a BLAST!
JohnnyTBP
JohnnyTBP - 3/8/2017, 8:08 AM
Jason Pitts
hufflepuff69
hufflepuff69 - 3/8/2017, 9:36 AM
@JohnnyTBP - The game is hilarious
JohnnyTBP
JohnnyTBP - 3/8/2017, 9:40 AM
@hufflepuff69 - yes. Loved the first 3 seasons
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 3/8/2017, 8:19 AM
I'm very nervous about this series. i hope its not like "No Ordinary Family". that was a big fail for me.
StormXmen123
StormXmen123 - 3/8/2017, 8:53 AM
@sKeemAn - To me it sounds like it takes place in the original timeline (between The Wolverine + senitnel future DoFP).

It sounds like it will show the sentinels taking over; hence why the families witht he mutants children ahve to go under ground.
This futher streghtend by the casting of Blink.

I think this is a great way to approach the series and tie it with the films.
It wont cause any (futher) contunity problems + unlike the MCU tie in shows it wount be restrained by the films.
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 3/8/2017, 10:19 AM
It's so many street level villains to choose from I always wondered why go through the trouble of coming up with a brand new one.
That's if he's playing "The Villain" in this show.
Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon - 3/8/2017, 2:27 PM
Consider this your reminder that Singer directed the pilot for "House" and exec produced it for the entire run.
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