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Funny that they cast Jason Patric, considering the better choice was right beside him throughout most of The Losers:

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6'2", definitely a build closer to Walker's than Patric, and a proven actor that could perfectly capture the Walker character.
 
Just heard Brian M Bendis on Geektime on Sirius H101 and he said he just cast T-mobile girl, Carly Foulkes as Retro girl.
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Seriously, what ****** casting choices. Except for Hutton and Foulkes I don't like anyone else so far.

Jason Patrick? Has he been relevant since Lost Boys?
 
Seriously, what ****** casting choices. Except for Hutton and Foulkes I don't like anyone else so far.

Jason Patrick? Has he been relevant since Lost Boys?

Yes. :o
 

If you say The Losers I'm gonna cry. That movie was such a waste of money. Another bit of wasted comic potential *le sigh*

Anyway, I don't know if this pairing had been mentioned but I would have liked to see Brandon Molale play Walker


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Alona Tal might be showing up again as Jo Harvelle on Supernatural, but she will definitely be making her presence known on the new FX superhero show, Powers.

Tal recently shared the news on Twitter, saying, “I want you all to be the first to know I am a part of a new pilot for FX called Powers,” and writer Brian Michael Bendis followed up a little later with a tweet of his own, “Alona Tal joins ‘Powers’ pilot. i’ll confirm it’s…ZORA. BOOM!”

According to TVLine, a rep for FX has confirmed that Tal will be on the show, but there were no details about the character she’d portray. If Bendis is right (and why would the writer be wrong), then Tal will appear to be immortal and possess a memory that could put an elephant to shame as the ‘power’ known as Zora.

The new pilot, based on the graphic novel series with the same name, focuses on two detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, that work in a special division of Homicide that handles cases involving people with superpowers. Already added to the cast are Charles S. Dutton, Lucy Punch as Detective Pilgrim, Jason Patric as Detective Walker, 11-year old Bailee Madison as a girl that’s truly out of this world, and the T-Mobile girl.

Production on the pilot is scheduled to begin this month in Chicago.

http://www.boomtron.com/2011/07/supernatural-alona-tal-in-fx-powers/
 
First Look:

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The premise sounds very interesting but I haven't the read the comic yet, so I'm planning to buy that soon.
 
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I've only read up to the 4th volume, but each Volume seems like it could be one episode. I wonder if it'll start right away with the Retro Girl story or if they'll lead up to that.
 
I thought the president of FX said a few months back that we'd know whether or not the show was going forward by now. I hope this works out. *crosses fingers*
 
Good news. Not a definite pickup, but at least it beat out the other show and is still in the running.
 
I do wonder if some of the "retooling" might not include some recasting. I wouldn't particularly mind. Neither of the two lead actors really spoke to me.
 
Well, I mean just hearing about them. More often than not when I'm interested in a series, there's at least one actor involved that grabs my attention. With this show, when they announced who was going to be the two leads, it was like "Oh.... well..... that's nice, I guess." Just didn't grab my attention at all.
 
From TVLine:
Regarding the status of the network’s live-action adaptation of Powers starring Jason Patric, Landgraf said he requested “fairly substantial rewrites that would require pretty substantial reshoots” to the pilot and is waiting to see how those tweaks turn out before pulling the trigger on a series order. He called the project “as difficult an adaptation as I ever worked on.”
I really hope this works out. :csad:
 
I'm surprised FX passed on it. I guess it was garbage.
 
I don't think them passing on the first draft necessarily means it was garbage. It just means that it didn't work and they went back to the drawing board to fix some things up.
 

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