‘Powers’ Adult Animated Series in Development at Netflix and Dark Horse
Powers, the Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming incredible indie comic series, is getting the adult animated treatment!
Netflix is developing an adult animated series adaptation of the long-running comic, with Dark Horse Entertainment‘s Keith Goldberg and Chris Tongue executive producing, says THR.
Important: The two creators are involved in the development. Bendis is said to be writing the pilot while Oeming is participating in the visual development for the show!
Combining the tropes of the superhero genre with the police procedural genre, Powers follows two Chicago homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, who work in cases involving superpowers.
The title first launched independently then was published by Image Comics in the early 2000s. It won an Eisner Award for best new series in 2001, with Bendis winning best writer in 2002 and 2003.
Powers already had a brush with Hollywood in the mid-2010s when it became a live-action series from the PlayStation Network, which was making a stab into original series programming at the time. Sharlto Copley and Susan Heyward starred in the show, which ran two seasons.
Adult animation has proven to be big business for streaming services. Invincible, based on a Robert Kirkman superhero comic, is in the top three of most watched shows on Amazon’s Prime Video.
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