‘X-Men’ Casts ‘Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner as Young Jean Grey

The latest addition to the X-Men franchise, X-Men Apocalypse, will add familiar young faces. Director Bryan Singer revealed via Twitter that three young stars will take on the roles of Jean Grey, Storm and Cyclops.

Slotted to play a young Grey is Sophie Turner, known for her role as Sansa Stark in the HBO hit series, "Games of Thrones." Actress Famke Janssen has played the older Jean Grey in the other movies.

Alexandra Shipp, who can be seen in the Lifetime movie, Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, got the role as a young Storm, which has been played by Halle Berry. Tye Sheridan will takeover James Marsden's role as young Cyclops. Sheridan has had roles in The Tree of Life and Mud.

Despite the announcement of the new cast members, the movie will still be focused on James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto and Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique. In 2013, Singer revealed that the movie would be centered on the battle between the X-Men and the powerful villain from the 1990s storyline, "Age of Apocalypse." Oscar Isaac will play the villain.

"Not all superhero movies, comic book movies, will follow story lines from the books, and one of the things we've been doing with the 'X-Men' movies recently is taking books as inspiration and following those stories," franchise writer-producer Simon Kinberg had said in an interview with Hero Complex. "One of the challenges of following up 'Days of Future Past' is that the movie is so big in scale and scope and stakes, how do you tell the next one that doesn't feel like a step backward? The 'Apocalypse' story, even for people that don't know the comics, just from the title the stakes are pretty clear."

Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen, who played the older Professor X and Magneto in the other movies respectively, will not show up in this one.

X-Men: Apocalypse is scheduled to be released in theaters in May 2016.