‘District 9’s Sharlto Copley, Michelle Forbes Join Sony’s ‘Powers’

Briefly: Sony dedicated an exorbitant amount of time to the announcement of Powers at their E3 Press Conference, and the series has just its first stars.

District 9 and Elysium star Shallot Copley will portray series star Christian Walker in his television debut, a man who formerly held powers of his own but is now a detective of superpower-related crimes. The Killing‘s Michelle Forbes will play the super-powered Retro-Girl.

Deadline states that “Powers is set in a world full of people with superhuman abilities and where all of those powers are just another catalyst for mayhem and murder. It follows the lives of two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, who are assigned to protect humans like us and investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, referred to as Powers who glide through the sky on lightning bolts and fire and who clash above cities in epic battle, oblivious to the mortals below.”

I’m not overly familiar with the series myself, but it’s got a pretty stellar creative team coming together, so I’m definitely looking forward to checking it out.

Are you looking forward to Powers? Who else would you like to see in the series? Sound out below!

Source: THR