Winter is Coming: Sansa Stark is cast in the new X-Men movie

Director Bryan Singer announced newcomers to the X-Men cast and will include Sophie Turner from Game of Thrones.

Winter is coming. And it’s the mutant Storm who is going to bring it. As comic book fans feverishly await the production and release of X-Men: Apocalypse director Bryan Singer announced that he has cast the roles of Storm, Cyclops and Jean Grey — played by Halle Berry, James Marsden, and Famke Janssen in the original trilogy respectively. If you’ve seen the last two X-Men movies, then it should come as no surprise to you that he has chosen to actors of a younger fair to portray the mutants, as the movies take place several decades before the events of the original trilogy.

It must have come as a bit of a surprise to Turner who took to Twitter to react.

Sophie Turner, who stars as the tortured Sansa Stark on the hit HBO TV show “Game of Thrones,” will star as Jean Grey, a telepathic mutant with the power to move objects at will and generally wreak havoc across the world.