Good news from the producer and head writer of Powers, Charles Eglee, as well as creator Brian Michael Bendis – Powers for TV is still not dead at FX.

Eglee appeared in the Nerdist Writers Panel in recent months and assured that the project is “actively moving forward.” He also talked a bit about what one could expect from the first season of a Powers TV show.

“For those of you who know the comic at all, there’s an installment called ‘Who Killed Retro Girl?’ and it just seemed to me that rather than wrap that up in a one-hour pilot, the thing to do was really let that be a whole season — the 13 episodes. Treat it as one murder investigation with weekly stories, self-contained narratives in each episode. But the big event — sort of like ‘Murder One’ really — was solving that crime and using that to develop our characters and dramatize the world,” he explained. “We’re not really hinging the show on the solving of that particular crime,” Eglee continued. “It’s really about Christian Walker’s journey. This guy is…sort of ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth.’ He was this Olympian god who had powers and was immortal, and he sort of got thrown out. And now, here he is walking the earth with mere mortals and trying to put it together.”

Bendis yesterday posted on Tumblr that the project is still alive. “Based on the pilot the network ordered a handful of new scripts for new episodes and the writers should be handing them in soon,” he says. “It’s slow and steady but we are still alive.”

It’s been talked about for three years now, and a pilot was shot last year, but it sounds like Powers will have to wait a little bit longer for TV – if it comes on to TV at all.

“We didn’t pick the pilot of Powers up; we went back and Chick Eglee, who had written it, did a fairly substantial rewrite that would require pretty extensive reshoots of the pilot,” THR reports FX president John Landgraf as saying. “Right now we’re in the process of deciding whether to pull the trigger on the reshoot.”

Landgraf refers to Powers as a “difficult adaptation” which interests him “but this is a really hard one.”

Decisions on what to do next will come within a few months.

Possible good news on the Powers front… while it seemed things were between Powers and Outlaw Country for a spot on the FX line-up, the cable network has now passed on the latter.

However, Powers will be going through some redevelopment, including some “retooling and reshoots.”

Creator Brian Michael Bendis seems to think this is “pretty good news” as Sons Of Anarchy also went through the same process.

Stay tuned for more Powers TV news as it becomes available…