Bryan Singer announced on Instagram today that Olivia Munn (The Newsrooom) has been cast to play Betsy Braddock, better known as Psylocke, in X-Men: Apocalypse, the follow-up to X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Psylocke is a telepathic comic book character who first appeared in Marvel’s UK Captain Britain series in 1971, written by Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe. The character eventually metamorphosed into Kwannon, a Japanese female ninja.
James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence are all returning for the film, which premieres May 27, 2016.