First, a movie about a semi-super-powered vigilante (“The Dark Knight’), then a movie about super-powered robots (“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”) and now a TV pilot about law enforcers for super-powered criminals.
Chicago is looking more like a splash page every summer, and with the recent filming of “Powers” — adapted from the graphic novel of the same name — the city adds another notch to its figurative utility belt.
Production on the FX pilot, starring Jason Patric as former superhero Detective Christian Walker, began in mid-July and ended last week. Charles S. Dutton, Carly Foulkes of T-Mobile commercial fame and 11-year-old Bailee Madison will co-star in the show, along with Lucy Punch (“Bad Teacher”), who will play Walker’s partner, Detective Deena Pilgrim.
Chicago may not get co-star credit in the pilot, but the city’s personality features prominently in the show, which follows the pair of detectives as they track down baddies in a world where superpowers are common enough to warrant arrest.
“The L is a character in almost every one of our pieces,” executive producer and writer Charles Eglee said, noting that Chicago was chosen early on as a location where the shows’ supernatural aspects could be grounded. Scenes were shot along the South Loop, Cicero and some of the more “gritty” areas on the West Side, among other places.
Source: Full article @ Chicago Sun Times
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