{"id":11320,"date":"2009-02-10T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=11320"},"modified":"2009-02-09T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:46:00","slug":"powers-to-get-the-live-action-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2009\/02\/10\/powers-to-get-the-live-action-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Powers To Get The Live-Action Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Brian Michael Bendis has confirmed that his hit comic series &#8220;Powers&#8221; has been optioned for TV and a pilot is in active development for the FX channel.  Bendis teased back in September about the possibility of the title getting the live-action treatment, and now officially confirmed it.  He talked to MTV&#8217;s Splashpage about it and said;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just handed in a draft to the network and we&#8217;re getting our notes from the network as soon as this thing is over, [&#8230;] So next week I&#8217;ll get the notes, and as long as they don&#8217;t involve sock puppets and some sort of orgy scene that I&#8217;m not interested in, then hopefully it will go in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Created by Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, Powers was published by Image Comics from 2000 until 2004 when it moved to Marvel&#8217;s Icon imprint publication wing.  Previously optioned by Sony for a film possibility at one point, &#8220;Powers&#8221; was created by Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.  It follows the cases of a police precinct in a world where superheroes and superpowers, while not uncommon, are still out of the oridinary, requiring a special branch of law enforcement to deal with &#8220;powers&#8221;, as they&#8217;re called.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on Powers.<\/p>\n<p>By Costa Koutsoutis, (Source: MTV Splashpage)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/powers_comic.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Powers Comic\" width=\"200\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/powers_comic.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/powers_comic-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Brian Michael Bendis has confirmed that his hit comic series &#8220;Powers&#8221; has been optioned for TV and a pilot is in active development for the FX channel. 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