Foxâs upcoming X-Men drama The Gifted is a Marvel story as old as time. People with powers walk among us, those without powers fear them, and the government is seemingly hell-bent on capturing and imprisoning all of the... well, the gifted.
Last night, Bryan Singer, whoâs directing the first episode of the series, took to Instagram to post a behind-the-scenes production photo of Polaris (Emma Dumont) trapped in some sort of plastic encasement.
In and of itself, the photo doesnât give much away about Polarisâ story arc throughout the show, but the visual does give us some sense of the trouble sheâs likely to get into. The prison uniform that sheâs wearing suggests that sheâs been captured by whichever shadowy governmental organization that the Druckers (Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker) are trying to protect their children from.
Also, as alarming as it is to see someone being vacuum sealed, the photo does bring to mind the plastic prison that Magneto spent time in during the second X-Men movie, which would make sense given that Polarisâ powers are magnetism-based. Unfortunately, we still donât know whether this version of Polaris will be related to Magneto the way she is in the comics and, even more distressing, we donât know whether Fox plans to give her her iconic head of emerald locks.
We can only hope that the showâs costume designers saw how the internet dragged the Inhumansâ Medusa for her terrible wig and is now planning accordingly.
