For those excited about the upcoming Playstation Network debut of Powers, the live action adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming‘s superhero procedural, here’s an 8 minute featurette detailing how the production came to be and lots of new footage.
Powers, which stars Sharlto Copley and Susan Heyward, will be the Playstation Network’s first original series. It should make for a fascinating experiment for the network going forward, particularly to see how many viewers opt to pay the per-episode rate rather than get a Playstation Plus subscription.
Powers will be available on PSN starting March 10th.
Via Brian Michael Bendis’ Tumblr page, here’s your first cast photo from the upcoming Playstation Network series Powers, based on the former Image, now Icon title by Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.
The series will be free to Playstation Plus subscribers, but all Playstation owners will be able to view the pilot for free when its made available later this year. The pilot was written by Charlie Huston (Moon Knight) and directed by David Slade (30 Days of Night).
Powers centers on Detectives Christian Walker (Sharlto Copley) and Deena Pilgrim (Susan Heyward) as they investigate cases involving superheroes and supervillains, working in a special homicide division called “Powers”. The cast also includes Michelle Forbes as Retro Girl, Eddie Izzard as Wolfe, Noah Taylor as Johnny Royalle, and Olesya Rulin as Calista.
The original Bendis-Oeming collaboration was a critical smash when it debuted, winning the Eisner Award for Best New Series in 2001.
Over at Warren Ellis’s blog a preview of Half Moon, a new collaboration with Michael Avon Oeming that will feature a space girl:
We’re working in realtime on this one. We agreed on the general concepts just a couple of hours ago, and will spend the next few days in development on it, to see what we’ve actually got. So I thought, and Mike agreed, it might be interesting to open the process out and let you see a bit of the sausage-making. As it were
Ellis has a long interest in all things spacey, including his previous gns Orbiter and Ministry of Space. Oeming’s tough brings a whole new look to this however.
Much more info in the link.
TAKIO is definitely something different from
Brian Bendis and Michael Oeming: a kids story. Set in a family where two squabbling sisters learn to come together after an accident gives them superpowers.
Released through Marvel’s Creator-owned imprint TAKIO is also unusual in that’s it’s being put out in a done-in-one graphic novel format. The book hits in March and retails for $9.95. Here’s a preview.
Still don’t like the black-washing of the Deena character.
“Still don’t like the black-washing of the Deena character.”
Given that the actress playing Pilgrim on the show is a doppleganger for Enki Sunrise, Walker’s next partner in the comics after Pilgrim, all I can do is recommend that you stop being a racist.
“all I can do is recommend that you stop being a racist.”
Some people love to be so progressive in public when in their own private lives they are far less so.
Clearly the guy had never read the third series, to learn that Deena was replaced by this new Enki.
( And in fact I’ve Never read Powers b4, but just did a little googling to see what you both were talking about.)
But you got your PC points. How nice for you.
Let’s throw a pity party for the racists! Poor youse peoples, what’s happening to your whitebread country, by god?!
I just hope the show is fucking good. As a longtime Powers comic fan, that costumed person on the left gives me bad vibes about this shows temperament. Although the guy on the far right, his pose is right out of a Michael Avon Oeming comic book.
“that costumed person on the left” would be Michelle Forbes, who was quite amazing in the first 2 seasons of “The Killing” on AMC. I’m not sure you can tell the show’s ‘temperament’, by one still picture featuring the cast…but I guess you did….