That got your attention, didn't it?

You nerd.

While there's been absolutely no indication that Michael Chiklis (the actor famous for playing such grumpy balls of muscle as The Shield's Vick Mackey and the film version of the Fantastic Four's Ben Grimm) will have anything at all to do with the television adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis' beloved comic book series Powers, those of us who are fans of both Mackey and Bendis know that the combination would be a totally fucking awesome one. Do you hear that, FX? This needs to happen.

Anyway, this post comes to you now because Premium Hollywood has posted an interview with FX president John Landgraf which confirms Powers' development as a television series is still going forward and is -- no less -- under the direct supervision of Bendis himself. Here's the relevant 'graph:

“We have a new writer who came in and who’s working with Brian Bendis,” Landgraf confirmed. “He’s a really, really good writer who got really excited about the project. He came in, and they pitched us a new take. Because part of what you’re trying to do with ‘Powers’…and I think I said this to you when I talked to you before…is that you have a great property, a really robust property, but it has to be adapted to become a weekly television series. So you’re asking yourself the question, ‘What stays and what goes?’ For example, the Retro Girl murder story: should that whole story be told in the pilot, or do we introduce it and tell it later? But the new writer and Brian have got a good take on it. They came in about two months ago and pitched what they were doing, and it was great.”

(Sorry that isn't formatted like a quote should be. I'm posting this with an old version of ie that gets all nervous and stuttery even when you ask it to do something simple like load a flash banner. Fancy browser-based blogging software definitely flummoxes it. Anyway, this is me talking again now. I'm doing it. I'm talking.)

When I heard about the Powers TV series a while ago I was excited, as any nerd would be, but I dismissed it as one of those probably-not-going-to-happen-anyway things. But now that it's a very real possibility, I find myself thinking about how much sense it makes. Bendis made his career adapting screen-style dialogue and pacing to the pages of comics, so reverse-adaptation of this kind is sort of a no-brainer, really. It's just a shame he didn't have the same cred back when they made Daredevil (the crappy, hammy Ben Affleck vehicle is ostensibly based on Bendis' run on the title, which is, believe-it-or-not, an incredibly well-written, tense, emotionally fraught crime thriller).

My fingers are crossed so hard on this one.

Anyway, here's hoping the mysterious "really, really good writer" is one of FX's flagship crime guys, like Shawn Ryan or Kurt Sutter.

(via Comics Alliance)