Get Ready For Heroes’ Grittier Brother

Sick of Heroes ’ soap opera house and deficiency of depth ? The web behind The Shield and Nip / Tuck is coming to make unnecessary you , with a novel series based on Brian Bendis and Mike Oeming ’s comic book Powers .

Mixing police procedural with superheroes , Powers oversee to explore the traditions ( and platitude ) of comic record book superheroes in a means that Heroes has never quite realised ( instead , the NBC dramatic play mostly select to imitate them . peculiarly if they ’re old X - Men comics ) , and just may be the superpowered TV show you ’ve always await for .

create in 2000 by Ultimate Spider - Man and Avengers writer Bendis – In fact , it was his first superhero comic – and Bulletproof Monk ’s Oeming , Powers follows two police detective in a police section that investigates homicides that are connected to superhumans … one of whom used to be a superhero himself . Mixing a variety of influences from both inside and outside comics — amongst them Homicide : A yr On The Killing Streets , the novel that the television series Homicide : Life On The Streets was based on — has allowed the series to stay fresh while changing subjects , background and even publisher throughout its recollective history .

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This is n’t the series ’ first run - in with moving pictures ; before news of the FX deal broke this weekend , the comic had been optioned by Sony Pictures as a possible movie for director Frank Oz , but thing did n’t incisively process out , as Bendis told MTV ’s Splash Page :

We had to ride through wave of screenplay that were just inappropriate for the intersection , and for fans of the Koran . There were whole drafts of the screenplay without [ one of the series ’ two leads ] Deena Pilgrim 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 !

This time around , that wo n’t be a trouble ; Bendis himself is writing the script for the FX cowcatcher :

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I just pass on in a drawing to the connection and we ’re getting our notes from the connection as presently as [ New York Comic Con ] is over . So next week I ’ll get the preeminence , and as long as they do n’t involve wind sock creature and some kind of saturnalia vista that I ’m not interested in , then hopefully it will go in the right direction .

We ’re hopeful that there are n’t any sock puppet banknote because , plow correctly , Powers could be exactly what we require from Heroes all along , before we learned to finalize for tight - moving dreck : A impertinent , funny , cliff-hanging drama that just happens to feature hoi polloi capable to do awing things . Keep your digit crossed .

NYCC : Brian Bendis Confirms Live - Action ‘ Powers ’ TV Series On FX , Draft Completed[MTV Splash Page ]

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