{"id":2339282,"date":"2026-03-20T22:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2339282"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:13:35","slug":"brian-michael-bendis-powers-animated-tv-show-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brian-michael-bendis-powers-animated-tv-show-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Michael Bendis&#8217; Powers Animated TV Show in the Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>Powers<\/em>, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/brian-michael-bendis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brian-michael-bendis_1\" data-tag=\"brian-michael-bendis\">Brian Michael Bendis<\/a> and Michael Avon Oeming indie comic series currently published by Dark Horse Comics, is getting the adult animated treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNetflix is developing an adult animated series adaptation of the long-running comic, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/dark-horse-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dark-horse-entertainment_1\" data-tag=\"dark-horse-entertainment\">Dark Horse Entertainment<\/a>\u2018s Keith Goldberg and Chris Tongue executive producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCombining the tropes of the superhero genre with the police procedural genre, <em>Powers<\/em> follows two Chicago homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, who work in cases involving super powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe 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. The comic later moved to Icon, a short-lived Marvel imprint that put out creator-owned books at the height of Bendis\u2019 popular <em>Ultimate Spider-Man<\/em> run. <em>Powers<\/em> is now in the middle of a new limited series story tied to its 25th anniversary and published by Dark Horse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>Powers<\/em> 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\u00a0Copley and Susan\u00a0Heyward starred in the show, which ran two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAdult animation has proven to be big business for streaming services. <em>Invincible<\/em>, based on a Robert Kirkman superhero comic, is in the top three of most watched shows on Amazon\u2019s Prime Video. And Netflix has a whole cadre of series, both dramatic and comedic. Among its big titles hitting this year are <em>Devil May Cry<\/em> season two and <em>Bass x Machina<\/em> from Bryan Tyree Henry. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>Powers<\/em> becomes Bendis\u2019 latest creation to rekindle its Hollywood connection. His period crime saga graphic novel <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/torso\/\" id=\"auto-tag_torso_1\" data-tag=\"torso\">Torso<\/a><\/em>, published in the late 1990s, is also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/torso-movie-zach-cregger-netflix-1236449285\/\">currently in development<\/a> at Netflix, with <em>Weapons<\/em> filmmaker Zach Cregger among the producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDark Horse, meanwhile, is coming off the SXSW premiere of its dark comedy mystery <em>Kill Me<\/em>, starring Charlie Day, Allison Williams and Giancarlo Esposito. The movie currently sits at 100 percent on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hollywoodreporter.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powers, the Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming indie comic series currently published by Dark Horse Comics, is getting the adult animated treatment. Netflix is developing an adult animated series adaptation of the long-running comic, with Dark Horse Entertainment\u2018s Keith Goldberg and Chris Tongue executive producing. The two creators are involved in the development. 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