Who Is Retro Girl? Powers Casts Carly Foulkes

T-Mobile model Carly Foulkes has been cast as the doomed Retro Girl in the Powers TV pilot.

Brian Michael Bendis made the announcement earlier this week on the Geektime radio show. He describes Retro Girl as "the Princess Di of the Powers world."

Bendis Talks Lucy Punch's Powers Casting

Also while on the Geektime radio show, Bendis talked about the casting of Lucy Punch as Deena Pilgrim. "Lucy came in and destroyed it," he said.

"She transformed herself into Deena," he continued. "She's bringing something that no one expected. We said to ourselves, 'That's what Deena is – unexpected.' She should teach a class on auditioning."

FX Confirms Jason Patric As Powers Lead; Issues Press Release

FX has confirmed that Jason Patric will be playing Christian Walker in the Powers pilot and they have issued a press release about the whole project.

Check out the press release!

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Jason Patric is Christian Walker

And now Deadline is reporting that Jason Patric is tapped to play Christian Walker, the series lead, in the soon-to-film Powers pilot.

If Powers goes to series, it will be Patric's first regular series role.

Lucy Punch is Deena Pilgrim

Lucy Punch (The Class) has landed the lead female role of Deena Pilgrim for the soon-to-film Powers pilot.

This news was first posted by Deadline.com (them again?) earlier today.

Bailee Madison Cast In Powers

Deadline.com is reporting that 11-year-old Bailee Madison has been cast in Powers as Calista, an otherworldly young girl raised by her stepdad Eagle, a man with powers. When Eagle's wife is murdered and he goes on the lam, Calista comes to stay with Walker and develops a bond with him.

Her previous credits include Just Go With It.

The First Bit Of Powers Casting: Charles S. Dutton Will Play Captain Cross

Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter has posted the first real bit of Powers casting news, as she has revealed that Charles S. Dutton (Roc) will play the role of Captain Cross, head of the homicide department that employs Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim.

With this news, hopefully more casting details are coming.

Kyle Chandler Courted For Powers

Deadline.com is reporting that Kyle Chandler is being courted for the role of Christian in FX's Powers pilot.

They warn that he has not committed to the project and is awaiting the latest draft of the script before making a decision.

You can read Deadline's article here.

FX Moves Forward With A Powers TV Pilot

About two years after this website even launched, FX and Brian Michael Bendis have announced that the network is finally moving forward with a Powers TV pilot.

Powers is not your typical "comic book" show. It involves two homicide detectives who cover cases involving people with super powers. The pilot will be written by Charles H. Eglee and directed by Michael Dinner. Casting is said to be beginning very soon so they can shoot in the Spring. (Katee Sackhoff, hopefully your schedule is open to play Deena Pilgrim).

The show will come from Sony Pictures TV and FX Productions, and the production company behind The Walking Dead, Circle of Confusion, will also be executive producing for Powers. So, basically, if you liked The Walking Dead, you're going to have a lot of luck here, especially if this goes to series.

Co-creator Brian Michael Bendis said this about the news on Twitter:

"For those comparing Powers to other super hero shows, it's not a super hero show... It's a cop show with a superhero element. Big difference."

He also seems very happy that co-creator Michael Avon Oeming has been properly mentioned in all announcements.

Since we've got solid news again, PowersTV is back open for business. I can't promise that updates will be as easy to come by as they have been for Smallville or the upcoming Wonder Woman project, but I'll do my best. (Anyone want to give anonymous tips? Here's where to write.)

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Finally, A Powers TV Update!

The FX cable network recently had their Winter Press Tour and no word came about the status of the Powers television series for the network.

PremiumHollywood.com's Will Harris caught up with the President and General Manager of FX, John Landgraf, to find the latest about the project.

"We have a new writer who came in and who’s working with Brian Bendis," Landgraf confirmed. "He’s a really, really good writer who got really excited about the project. He came in, and they pitched us a new take. Because part of what you're trying to do with Powers is that you have a great property, a really robust property, but it has to be adapted to become a weekly television series. So you’re asking yourself the question, 'What stays and what goes?' For example, the Retro Girl murder story: should that whole story be told in the pilot, or do we introduce it and tell it later? But the new writer and Brian have got a good take on it. They came in about two months ago and pitched what they were doing, and it was great."

You can read the full article/interview here.

New Powers Tidbits At The Baltimore Comic-Con

Powers had a panel at the Baltimore Comic-Con this weekend, and during the panel, creators Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Aevon Oeming spoke a little bit about the Powers TV project.

Bendis again mentioned the appointment of Kevin Falls as showrunner. Bendis himself is writing for the series.

Most interesting is that when asked of their dream casting for the show, Oeming suggested Nathan Fillion (Castle, Firefly) as Christian Walker and Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) as Deena Pilgrim. Bendis revealed that Sackhoff has a working relationship with the pilot's director Michael Dinner but "you can't allow yourself to want for those things."

Bendis also points out they're not greenlit yet and that there is "one more meeting at FX." Here's hoping some news comes shortly!

More Powers TV Updates: Showrunner & Pilot Director Revealed

Powers on TV now has an assigned pilot director and a showrunner, which makes it sound more and more like this is going to happen.

In an interview with G4TV, Bendis revealed that, although the greenlight has not yet been given to shoot, Michael Dinner (Bionic Woman, Sons Of Anarchy) will be directing the pilot. The series' showrunner will be Kevin Falls, whose previous credits include Journeyman, The West Wing, and Sports Night. In addition to being a producer on those projects, Falls also wrote for those series.

Hopefully this means more good news is coming soon!

Powers TV Update From Bendis

Powers creator Brian Michael Bendis spoke with CBR News today about the upcoming relaunch of the Powers comic book, and within he spoke a bit about the current status of the television project.

"We have a director and a show runner and Sony is very positive," Bendis confirmed to CBR News, adding that things are still in the early stages of development.. "All kinds of good things are going on behind the scenes right now. They've just asked for more material and we're putting together budgets as well as some other stuff. So we'll see, but it is an expensive endeavor. This is one of those situations where our imagination and how inexpensive it is to put on the page flies in the face of how expensive it is to put on TV. When you're only doing tiny bits of superheroics they’ve got to be great. They've got to be something really special and I think we’ve all seen the shitty CGI stuff. I don't want to see it. I'd rather see nothing," he says.

"I'm spoiled in my day job at Marvel. There’s always some really great artist that will make anything I think of come to life and it will look awesome and unique, whereas the people working on Powers with me remind me that you can't do that in TV. You have to imagine what the worst version is because that might be what you get. Mike and I have been working on Powers, the comic, with the idea that we can do whatever we want, but the TV show is a different language. Having watched Watchmen, I don’t want to see a direct verbatim adaptation of Powers. I want to see something else. I want to see what the language of Powers would be on television," he says.

You can read the entire interview at CBR News.

UPDATE 6/21/09: Bendis updates Powers TV progress at Heroes Con '09

NEW UPDATE: Bendis talks about Powers TV project with Wizard magazine - Check out details here on PowersTV!

A television series based on Brian Michael Bendis' Powers series may be coming soon. Because there seems to be interest on the KryptonSite Forums, we figure we'll make a news page of information about this one too! If it goes to series, perhaps this will become a full site. FX does have something really great on their hands, and since Bendis is writing the script himself, that means it will hopefully stay very true to the source material.

Here's the first information, fresh from MTV's Splash Page:

“‘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.’”

For a VERY extensive look at the world of the Powers comic book, visit what seems to be the official Powers page at http://hiddenrobot.com/POWERS/index.html (yes, it looks like E! Online on purpose)

Unlike a lot of the other series we cover in the KryptonSite Network, Powers is not the product of a major corporation, and if Bendis and/or Oeming ever happen to find this site and have issue with its existence, there might be a problem. No copyright infringement is intended beyond spreading the word and news of the Powers TV project should anything surface. However, if there is a problem please contact us immediately, and if you like what you see, be sure to say something too and we'll keep this up. But, hopefully the pot can be sweetened here with mention that there are 12 Powers trade paperbacks available as well as two deluxe hardcovers if you want to see what this great series is capable of - just look for the images to your right for some great deals on purchasing them. Clearly, "Who Killed Retro Girl," the series' first collection, is a great place to start and it will firmly entrench you in the world of Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim.

Powers also continues as a comic-book series from Marvel's Icon imprint, and the series' author, Brian Bendis, writes series such as New Avengers, Dark Avengers, and Ultimate Spider-Man monthly in addition to having helmed the main series in Marvel's recent Secret Invasion crossover.

A TV series for Powers could very much be like Homicide: Life On The Street meets Heroes. A Watchmen with more civilians. Either way, it could make for some great TV. Stay tuned.

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