NYCC: Brian Bendis Confirms Live-Action 'Powers' TV Series On FX, Draft Completed [UPDATED!]
Posted 2/6/09 3:01 pm ET by Rick Marshall in Hot Stuff, Marvel, News, Video
During the first day of New York Comic Con, MTV News sat down with Brian Michael Bendis, one of the primary architects of the Marvel Comics universe, to get an update on the upcoming television adaptation of "Powers," his comic book series with Michael Avon Oeming that explores a superhero-populated world via the conventions of police procedural drama. Bendis announced late last year that "Powers" would become a television series, but confirmed where the series would air in today's interview.
"'Powers' is in active development as a pilot at FX," Bendis told MTV. "I just handed in a draft to the network and we're getting our notes from the network as soon as this thing is over. So next week I'll get the notes, and as long as they don't involve sock puppets and some sort of orgy scene that I'm not interested in, then hopefully it will go in the right direction."
"But they're a very smart network," added Bendis. "It seems like the right place for it to be."
Bendis went on to describe some of the trials and tribulations of bringing the series, which began as an independently published project and was eventually brought under Marvel's publishing imprint Icon, to the small screen. "Powers" was optioned as a feature film in 2001, but the project never came to fruition.
"When we first sold it as a feature, we were lucky to get it optioned right away by Sony," said Bendis. "We had to sit through waves of screenplays that were just inappropriate for the product, and for fans of the book. There were whole drafts of the screenplay without Deena Pilgrim [one of the series' two main characters] in them. They'd hand me the screenplay and go, "What's wrong with this?" and I'd go "He has no one to talk to!"
"After years of that it's nice to have come out the other side and finally been given my chance to find out what the live-action language of 'Powers' is, versus the comic book language of 'Powers.'"
Brian Bendis Offers Updates On 'Powers' TV Series, 'Thor' And 'Avengers' Movies
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Earlier this year, it was announced that Brian Michael Bendis' "Powers" had been optioned as a pilot for FX. And now it appears that the project has taken significant steps forward.In an interview with G4, Bendis revealed that while the "Powers" TV pilot hasn't yet been given the green light to shoot, a showrunner and a director are firmly on board.
"Kevin Falls is our showrunner," said Bendis. "[He] is the Emmy award-winning producer of 'West Wing' and 'Sports Night.' Much higher up on the food chain than I thought we were going to get. Our director is Michael Dinner, who directed the 'Bionic Woman' pilot and 'Sons of Anarchy.'"
And here's a synopsis what exactly "Powers" is about:
Powers is set in a world where superpowers are relatively common but not mundane. It follows the lives of two detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, police officers in a Homicide department devoted to cases that involve "powers" (people with superpowers). Walker himself used to be a costumed superhero named Diamond, but became a police officer after he lost his abilities. Though stripped of his powers, he still retains his contacts within the superhero community.
PLEASE GET THIS ON TV ASAP!!!!
