Stephen Moyer Tapped To Play The Lead In Fox’s Marvel Action-Adventure Pilot

HBO's True Blood alum Stephen Moyer has been been tapped to play the lead in Fox’s Marvel action-adventure pilot.

The untitled action-adventure pilot is being directed by Bryan Singer and written by Matt Nix, which focuses 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. Moyer will play the dad, Reed, an ambitious attorney trying to balance the demands of his job at the DA’s office with his responsibilities to his family. He joins previously cast Blair Redford and Jamie Chung.

The project will feature characters from the X-Men comic book franchise and is being executive produced by Nix, Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory, for 20th TV and Marvel Television.

Source: Deadline