Director Bryan Singer has announced via Twitter the names of the actors chosen to play the younger versions of Storm, Cyclops, and Jean Grey in the anticipated X-MEN: APOCALYPSE.
Tye Sheridan (Mud) will play Scott Summer/Cyclops, Alexandra Shipp (House of Anubis) will be the new Ororo Monroe/Storm, and Sophie Turner (Sansa in HBO’s Game of Thrones) will portray Jean Grey.
Meet our new and brilliant young mutants: @Alexshipppp as #Storm @SophieT as #JeanGrey and @TyeSheridan as #Cyclops.
#XmenApocalypse
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) January 23, 2015
Singer will return to helm the superhero movie set in the ’80s and based on Simon Kinberg’s script.
20th Century Fox’s X-MEN: APOCALYPSE will shake american theaters on May 27, 2016.
Here is an interview with Sophie Turner that I did two years ago for Season 3 of Game of Thrones.