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FX's Powers To Be Dark and The Shield-like Gritty |
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Saturday, 06 August 2011 12:57 |
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Speaking to TV Line FX president John Landgra had the following to say about the upcoming FX superhero cop-show drama:
Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, who created Powers -– which is a very well-regarded, Eisner award-winning graphic novel -– view it as a story more in the model of David Fincher’s Seven, or Zodiac, or [FX's own] The Shield,” FX president John Landgraf shared at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Saturday morning. “It’s a really gritty, edgy, very real, very dark cop show that also happens to have superhero elements in it — but they’re not front-and-center. They’re around the margins, in the back of it.”
The Walker character, Landgraf points out, “has a really fascinating, kind of epic, emotional journey, so what we saw is the possibility to do an interesting, different take on the cop show. It’s pretty hard to top The Shield or match that… Read more: |
