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"David Slade is to direct the opening two episodes of Powers. Based on the cult comic series written by Brian Michael Bendis, Powers is being adapted exclusively for PlayStation Network.  Slade is a regular director on NBC&amp;#039;s Hannibal and also helmed the movies 30 Days of Night (2007) and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010). He will bring Charlie Huston&amp;#039;s scripts for the first two Powers episodes to the screen for a December launch, Deadline reports.  Following two homicide detectives who deal with superhuman crooks, the Powers TV series was previously in development at cable network FX. Jason Patric and Lucy Punch were attached to star as leads Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, but are no longer involved with the project. E3 2014: Powers TV adaptation coming to PlayStation Network "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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