Fate Of Powers TV Series To Be Decided By FX
Small screen adaption of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's superhero drama/police procedural to be decided March 1st.
Despite being hailed by FX president John Landgraf as a re-invention of the superhero genre for television, the small screen adaption of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's superhero drama/police procedural Powers will have it's fate decided on March 1st, when Landgraf and other FX executives reach a decision on whether or not to move forward with re-shoots of the show's pilot episode. Reported by MTV News, the deadline has being given because many of the cast and crew's contracts will change on that date. The pilot, which stars Jason Patric and Lucy Punch as homicide detectives who investigate crimes involving superheroes, beat out Southern crime drama Outlaw Country to be given a spot on FX's schedule. Soon after though, executives approached the pilot's writer Charles Chic Eglee (The Shield, The Walking Dead) to rework the script to fix issues of tone and clarity. Not much was thought of this, as it was done before with Sons of Anarchy, and look how well that has done. We expect the issue here is money, as the pilot does feature a lot of special effects, and the book's dark tone. As Landgraf himself puts it, Powers is as difficult an adaption as I've ever worked on.