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- Stills del 1.01 "Wayne or Lose":

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- "Powerless" | "Wayne Security Commercial":
https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 4570570753


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- "Powerless" | 1.01 "Wayne or Lose" Clip #1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJRrnHdvsk


- "Powerless" | 1.01 "Wayne or Lose" Clip #2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=687qNzMgOus


- "Powerless" | 1.01 "Wayne or Lose" Clip #3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sDz_7e2JLw


- "Powerless" | 1.01 "Wayne or Lose" Clip #4:

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- "Powerless" | "Emily" Behind The Scenes Interview - Vanessa Hudgens (Flicks and the City):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMZ_pSgBvsM


- "Powerless" | "Teddy" Behind The Scenes Interview - Danny Pudi (Flicks and the City):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssWYNKtdQQo


- "Powerless" | "Wendy" Behind The Scenes Interview - Jennie Pierson (Flicks and the City):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8EIsBQ55fk


- "Powerless" | "Ron" Behind The Scenes Interview - Ron Funches (Flicks and the City):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Ydwv3NjPA


- "Powerless" | "Van" Behind The Scenes Interview - Alan Tudyk (Flicks and the City):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2s8Xxe3hpM


- "Powerless" | "Jackie" Behind The Scenes Interview - Christina Kirk (Flicks and the City):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Ju-tijI8k


- "Powerless" | Go Behind The Scenes on the POWERLESS Set - Vanessa Hudgens, Danny Pudi, Ron Funches
(Flicks and the City):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II6AscHX814


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- "Powerless" | "Morning Commute" Promo:


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- Nuevas imágenes promocionales de la S1:

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- Descripción oficial del 1.02 "Wayne Dream Team":
1.02 "Wayne Dream Team" (09/02/2017 08:30PM - 09:00PM): EMILY INTENTA EL EQUILIBRAR EL HACER AMIGOS Y SER JEFA - Con la luz verde para la idea de un nuevo producto, Emily (Vanessa Hudgens)intenta conseguir tener inspirado a su equipo pero parece que no puede romper su obsesión con la Fantasy Super Hero League. Mientras tanto, Van (Alan Tudyk) está en una misión por ser incluído en la foto del Wayne Dream Team. Danny Pudi, Christina Kirk y Ron Funches también aparecen. Jennie Pierson recurrente.


http://www.spoilertv.com/2017/01/powerl ... -team.html?


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- Descripción oficial del 1.05 "Cold Season":
1.05 "Cold Season" (09/03/2017 08:30PM - 09:00PM): LA BRILLANTE IDEA DE EMILY PUEDE MANDAR A TEDDY EN PICADO - Emily (Vanessa Hudgens) convence a Teddy (Danny Pudi) a que entre en lo que piensa que es una invención que lo cambiará todo en el concurso de innovación de Wayne contra los elitistas ingenieros de Wayne X, incluso aunque él tiene sus dudas. Mientras tanto, Van (Alan Tudyk) saca ventaja de la naturaleza buena de Ron (Ron Funches) y lo tiene armando un juguete con la esperanza de preocupar al hijo de su nueva novia. Christina Kirk también aparece. Jennie Pierson recurrente.


http://www.spoilertv.com/2017/01/powerl ... press.html

(Nota: este capítulo era anteriormente el 1.03 y ha pasado a ser el 1.05)


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- POWERLESS | "Worn-Out Work Phrases" Promo:
https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 4504677376


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- POWERLESS | "Kryptonite" Promo:


- POWERLESS | "Company Motto" Promo:
https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 3777470466


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- POWERLESS | "Team Wayne Security" Promo:
http://www.ign.com/videos/2017/01/30/po ... e-security


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- POWERLESS | "Super Talk with the Cast of Powerless" Promo:


- POWERLESS | Cast Talks Premiere (DC Entertainment):

- POWERLESS | Exclusive Behind the Scenes (DC Entertainment):

- NBC's Powerless Cast Choose Their Favorite DC Characters (CBR):

- POWERLESS | "Alan Tudyk has an assignment for you" Promo:

https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 8638133251



- POWERLESS | "First Look" Featurette:

https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 3023797248



- POWERLESS | "Charm City Problems" Promo #1:

https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 2567885825


- POWERLESS | "Charm City Problems" Promo #2:

https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 3014930432


- POWERLESS | "Charm City Problems" Promo #3:

https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 9077676033


- POWERLESS | "Charm City Problems" Promo #4:

https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 6869951489


- POWERLESS | "Charm City Problems" Promo #5 (Recap):



- POWERLESS | "In Five Words" Promo:

https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 2787514368



- POWERLESS | "One of those days" Promo:

https://twitter.com/NBCPowerless/status ... 5253864448


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- Descripción oficial del 1.03 "Sinking Day":
1.03 "Sinking Day" (16/02/2017 08:30PM - 09:00PM): LA INCOMPETENCIA DE VAN PONE A EMILY EN UNA DIFÍCIL SITUACIÓN - CORBIN BERNSEN ESTRELLA INVITADA - Cuando el equipo pierde un cliente por culpa de la incompetencia de Van (Alan Tudyk), Emily (Vanessa Hudgens) busca cerrar un acuerdo con la gente de Atlantis. Por su enorme cagada, el padre de Van (la estrella invitada Corbin Bernsen) se da cuenta y lo pone en un camino para redimirse. Mientras tanto, el nuevo empleado Alex (la estrella invitada Matthew Atkinson) empieza en la oficina y (Danny Pudi) y Ron (Ron Funches) están convencidos de que es un superhéroe. Christina Kirk también aparece. Jennie Pierson recurrente.


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- Vanessa Hudgens sobre el explorar el lado cómico de DC Comics (IGN):
Vanessa Hudgens sobre el explorar el lado cómico de DC Comics
Por Eric Goldman 01-02-17


Though Vanessa Hudgens has had great success in TV movie musicals – including High School Musical and Grease Live – she’s never been a regular on an ongoing series until now, as she takes on the lead role in NBC’s Powerless. A comedic take on the world of DC Comics, Powerless, debuting Thursday night, stars Hudgens as Emily Locke, a new employee at Charm City’s Wayne Securities - a company that creates devices meant to protect people in a world filled with superhero/supervillain battles.

I sat down with Hudgens to discuss Powerless -- which also stars Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi, Christina Kirk and Ron Funches -- the unusual situation of the show filming an entirely new pilot episodes after original showrunner Ben Queen departed the project, Emily’s upbeat attitude and more.

IGN: I've seen both versions of the first episode and they’re really quite different. Was it fascinating for you to be working with the same cast, but have that opportunity to approach it from a different perspective?

Vanessa Hudgens: Yeah. It was really interesting. TV is very new for me. I've never been a series regular on a show before. As soon as I found out we were scrapping the pilot and doing another one I was like, “Does this happen often?” Kind of at a loss, like, well, I don't know how this all works! But it was kind of also normal for me because I didn't have anything to compare it to. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoy playing my character. I get to tap into side of myself that I haven't been able to express that much in front of the camera before. It's really nice to know that like a big chunk of this character truly is who I am.

IGN: When they started over again, they now knew who they’d casted. Was it interesting that perhaps they could tailor it for each of you specifically in a way?

Hudgens: I feel like as we go on the episodes keep getting better and better because we start figuring out, “Oh, this kind of comedy works for this person. These kind of lines work great for this person” It feels it's just finding its groove right now. I feel like the episodes keep getting funnier.

IGN: Your character is this optimistic presence in a room full of cynics. Is that constantly a battle for her because everyone seems pretty jaded?

Hudgens: Yeah, totally. It's especially a battle for her because she's the director of research and development. She's their boss so she needs to try to get their respect and win them over so that they can work harder and in her mind, the way she think she's going to do it is through inspiring them and being extremely encouraging but they want no part of it. If anything, it is almost her downfall because they push her away because of her optimism.

IGN: Are you excited when they give you some of the crazier things to do and crazier situations to get into?

Hudgens: It's so much fun when you get to do even more insane things. I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would be something that's absolutely terrible, but in a comedy it's absolutely terrible but so funny. The perspective on it is so different but I love it. I'm always so game to be hit in the head. [Laughs] Whatever it takes to get the laugh.

IGN: This is a show that's going to have some deep dive references and callouts to comic book characters and situations. Are you learning a lot more than you ever have before about this?

Hudgens: Oh yeah, there are so many comic book characters in the DC Universe and really odd ones too. I think Alan [Tudyk] or Danny [Pudi] found one called the Dogwelder, which is like one guy supervillain that welds dogs to people. That's terrifying! It's just nice to know that the possibilities are endless when it comes to our show.

IGN: A few years ago this show would have probably sounded like a pretty strange idea. Now that there's been so many TV shows and movies about comic book characters a lot more people are immersed in this world and understand approaching it from this humorous side. Do you feel like Powerless is debuting at the right time?

Hudgens: I feel like we're all so associated with superheroes and supervillains and their stories and their hardships and just everything that entails with superheroes that it's definitely the right time for us to explore the flipside of what is it like for normal people living in that world? I just think it's so original because it has not been explored on much. It's so funny because there's so much funny to dive into with it that it's honestly, the possibilities are endless.

IGN: We live in a world where the musical episode of a TV show is a staple and even the Flash and Supergirl are getting in on that. Would you love if they could figure out a musical episode for it?

Hudgens: I'm always singing so it's a very musical set to begin with so if we could put that in front of the camera I think that it would be gold. Danny [Pudi] and Christina [Kirk] were singing Moana on the set yesterday.

IGN: Given all of these superhero adaptations, would you be interested in one day actually suiting up in one of them?

Hudgens: Oh my gosh, yeah. I think that would be so much fun. Especially Catwoman, I would not mind doing. But it's fun. It's always great to play parts that are larger than life. It's the only time you get to be a superhero so why not? I want to do everything.

IGN: You and I were talking earlier about our mutual love of Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman. What is it about her that you really responded to?

Hudgens: She had so many sides. She's a very complex human being and you really got that from her performance. She was truly tormented and through her torment there's this sense of sensuality, which is really hard to put on. It's like you either have it or you don't. She had it in a way that I haven't seen on camera in a long time.

IGN: What's been your weirdest or funniest day on set of Powerless?

Hudgens: Yesterday was quite interesting. I was tied up to Christina for a couple of hours. That was not comfortable at all. Never been tied up like that before, especially to another person. It was very... it was an interesting day!

IGN: Is this the inevitable result of superheroes and supervillains in your midst?

Hudgens: Yeah, s**t goes down. The day never goes as you expect in Charm City!



http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/01/ ... -dc-comics

- Vanessa Hudgens adelanta la super comedia de la NBC (EW):
Vanessa Hudgens adelanta la super comedia de la NBC
Por Natalie Abrams 01 Feb 2017


DC Comics is dipping into the world of comedy with Powerless — and it’s brought some star power and geek cred to support it.

After a lauded turn as the edgy Rizzo in last year’s Grease Live!, Hudgens finds herself returning to her High School Musical roots as the optimistic and doe-eyed Emily Locke. (After Powerless went through an overhaul, gone was Emily’s biting wit as an insurance adjuster that specialized in regular-people coverage against damage caused by the crime-fighting superheroes.) Now, when viewers first meet Emily, she’s taken a job as the new director of R&D at Wayne Security, a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises that specializes in products that make defenseless bystanders feel safe in a world full of demigods.

Hopeful for a better future, Emily must navigate a team (Community‘s Danny Pudi, among them) that, well, has no hope at all, and a boss (Alan Tudyk) who puts the Trump boys to shame when it comes to nepotism — he’s Bruce Wayne’s cousin! Much like Emily, Hudgens handles the new challenge of entering the world of comedy with aplomb. Below, she teases what’s in store for Powerless: (Read our review here.)

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What attracted you to Powerless?
VANESSA HUDGENS: I love work space comedies. The Office is my all-time favorite show, and Parks & Recreation. They’re both at NBC, so when I heard that they were doing another one, I was like, “I have to get on this!” Plus, the added aspect of it being DC Comics’ first comedy, and it was going to be something original and something fun. I haven’t done much comedy, so I knew that it would push me to grow and be a new, fun challenge.

Are there any comedians you’re inspired by?
Amy Poehler, for sure, because her character on Parks & Recreation was extremely radiant, positive, and wants to inspire everyone around her. I think Emily Locke has that in the making.

Talk about Emily’s dynamic with her new team.
They don’t really know what to do with her. They haven’t really been approached with this sort of optimism in a really long time. She’s from out of town, so where she grew up, superheroes just flew above, they never stopped there. She’s very excited and in awe by the whole situation that they’re very used to and annoyed with. So it’s really her trying to find her place and gain their affection. It’s so funny because she’s such an adorably likable character, but they just do not want to let her in.

Emily comes into Wayne Security with a lot of hope, but immediately gets push back from her new team. How long can she stay that positive?
It takes a lot for her to crack, but she’s human.

In the original pilot, your character had a little more edge to her. What do you think of playing a more doe-eyed version of her on the show?
I love it. I feel like it gives Emily a place to grow. That’s another big thing with comedy is contrast; setting her up to have somewhere to go to is really great. We’ve had a couple of moments where she snaps a bit, so it’s been a lot of fun to play with that.

What’s your favorite part of playing in this world?
The stuff that they come up with is just so clever, it just has not been explored very much. Like in the episode we’re filming now, my character is dating a henchman and she doesn’t know it. That’s just a casualty of living in a world full of superheroes and villains. It’s just really funny and really great being able to explore mundane things in a brand new world, but one that is still extremely relatable.

How does Emily actually getting to work in Wayne Security change the show?
We’re able to help more and invent more and create, which I think is a lot of fun. Seeing our characters test out new products and invent new things that then come into fruition is a really neat way to dive into the Bruce Wayne world, whereas before, it was great, but it was like, “Approve this claim or don’t approve this claim,” so it’s opened up a lot of comedic opportunities.

What does her dynamic with Van Wayne, the boss at Wayne Security and Bruce’s cousin, look like moving forward?
It’s a lot of him thinking he should get the credit for the things that I’ve done. He doesn’t want to put a lot of hard work in, and that’s all Emily wants to do, so there’s a lot of argument between the two of them, but always in a really comedic way.

How much do you actually know about comics?
I mean, I kind of just know the big characters. It’s funny, through this I feel like I’ve learned a lot of new characters in the DC Universe. There’s just so many. The list goes on and on.

So when someone like Crimson Fox comes up in the pilot, do you recognize her?
No, I have no idea who that is. [Laughs] I was such a girly girl growing up. The extent of my comic book knowledge was Catwoman, from Michelle Pfeiffer, because I love Tim Burton. I’ve learned many things over the course of filming.

Have you started reading some comics now?
No, I’ve got enough to read when it comes to work.

From your perspective as a non-comic book fan, do you feel like audiences will be able to follow along with Powerless?
Oh yeah, of course, because it’s not about superheroes; it’s about normal people in their everyday lives, which we all live and can relate to.


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- 10 Revelaciones de "Powerless" — incluídas las conexiones con Batman, Supermán y el multiverso DC (empireonline):
10 Revelaciones de "Powerless" — incluídas las conexiones con Batman, Supermán y el multiverso DC
Por Ed Gross 31 enero 2017


With DC heroes leaping into action on the big screen in the form of Justice League, or the small with The Flash, Supergirl, Arrow and the rest, it feels like the right time to sit back and get some laughs out of that universe. At least that’s the hope of the powers behind Powerless, the new sitcom starring Vanessa Hudgens, Alan Tudyk and Danny Pudi, among others. It’s set at Charm City’s Wayne Security (yes, that Wayne), which is an R&D facility developing the technology designed to keep the citizens safe from the literal fallout of battles between superheroes and supervillains.

Speaking to Empire in this exclusive interview, executive producer/co-showrunner (with Justin Halpern) Patrick Schumacker provides some insight as to what it’s all about.

The Original Concept Was Set In An Insurance Company

The first pilot was still the same sort of thematic of powerless people living in a world with superheroes and supervillains causing collateral damage, but it dealt with the insurance side of things, which is like coping with the aftermath of these things. Lo and behold, after seven months of working on it, we’ve arrived at a place where we wanted to do something more on the preventative side. We thought that gadgetry and security products would actually be a fun, more organic way of bringing the world of DC Comics, and more of these genre elements, into a workplace comedy. We wanted it to be more about putting some semblance of power back into the hands of the individuals.

Justin Halpern and I weren’t actually affiliated with the original pilot; that was Ben Queen’s creation, but we’ve got to give him a ton of credit for casting much of the cast that has remained, and just coming up with a lot of the thematic basics of the show that we were able to retain.

Shifting From Sales to R&D

Originally, they were like a sales team for security products, and we were, like, “Whoa! What’s just an easy get for what they can be doing on a day-to-day basis? What’s something that won’t feel obtrusive, and just something that everybody can understand?” We were like, “Well, sales kind of makes sense … Ultimately, these episodes are going to be about interpersonal relationships, so what won’t get in the way, but feels legitimate?” So we said, “Sales,” and then NBC was, like, “Well, we’ve had a very famous half-hour sitcom about a sales team in The Office, so what do you guys think about R&D?”

It didn’t take too long before we realized that we really wanted to do that, that it actually helped even more with the case of bringing genre elements into a workplace comedy. You’ll see in the early episodes of the show that there is some sort of heavy-duty gadgetry involved in the stories. In the second episode, it’s the gang assembling to create what’s called “The Rumbrella,” which is a metallic umbrella that an individual can hold to deflect falling rubble from buildings, and collateral damage from super-battles above. Concurrently, the gang is distracted from the task at hand by a Superhero Fantasy League, which is our world analog to Fantasy Football, the same rules, except instead of touchdowns, it’s “saves,” and we had to come up with an entire point system that plays into the story. Somebody like Superman is “Boom or Bust,” because some weeks he saves an entire city, but then other weeks he has to save only Lois Lane from Lex Luthor, and that only counts as one point, because it’s one person. There’s a whole logic system that was involved with that.

It Is Not A Show About Gadgets

As the series goes on, we have these super-events that kick off storylines, but the products occasionally fall out of place in the episode in favor of more interpersonal stories. We’ve got an episode where Emily, Vanessa Hudgens’ character, ends up landing these government workers from Atlantis, and basically the Defense Department of Atlantis comes in to meet with them in hopes that they can find a new defense contractor after Black Manta launches an attack on Atlantis, and takes out a lot of the capital. That story ends up being less about the Atlanteans themselves, although they are a big part of it — these Atlanteans are business men — but it’s more about Alan Tudyk’s relationship with his father, played by Corbin Bernsen, their dysfunctional relationship and his father’s doubt that Van, Alan’s character, has what it takes to land this giant account. This is after losing Ace Chemicals at the top of the episode, by screwing up a deal with his laziness.

DC Easter Eggs A-Plenty

There are a lot of little nods to DC Comics lore, as much as we can cram in without alienating general audiences. You’ll see references to a lot of that stuff in episodes, whether it’s in the gadgetry or the characters crossing paths with our series regulars. You’re going to see a lot of DC Easter eggs in the show. We have another episode coming up that involves Emily, Vanessa’s character, dating a guy who turns out to be a henchman for the Riddler. It's sort of a DC twist on the classic, “You’re dating a bad guy," and your friends are trying to convince you that he’s a bad guy, and you’re pissed at your friends for trying to convince you that you’re dating a bad guy. You know, you really like this guy, and don’t want to believe that he’s a Bad Guy, but … Oh no! He’s actually an upper level henchman for the Riddler.… We’re excited about that one.

We have a bottle episode involving our crew right before they’re about to go on the company retreat to the more tropical Coast City. They get trapped in the building, because Doctor Psycho pulls a gas attack on Charm City. This comes about because there’s sort of a Making Of A Murderer Netflix series that’s done called Making Of A Supervillain, that’s all about Doctor Psycho and whether or not he’s innocent or guilty of previous crimes. Danny’s character is, like, “C’mon, people: his name is Doctor Psycho.” So that’s the question and then he’s released after the documentary comes out — he’s acquitted — and, of course, he immediately ends up gassing Charm City.

Look For DC “C-Lister” Characters

We have appearances by a handful of DC characters that I think more of the hardcore comics fans, and DC fans, will be familiar with. We have Crimson Fox in the pilot, and she will be a recurring character with more of a speaking role moving forward. We also have Olympian, who’s a member of the Global Guardians, and he’s this jacked, sort of Greek God. He’ll appear a couple of times. So we’re trying to work in characters as much as possible. Philosophically, we were, like, “Do we want to keep the heroes and villains separate from the man on the street?” In the social pecking order, it feels like they’re the gods, and we don’t want to humanize them too much, and yet there’s a lot of comedy to be had when you’re looking superheroes interacting with our regular schmoes, especially with certain superhero characters being sort of … If you want to call them C-listers within the DC universe. If they’re self-aware of that, I think there’s a lot of comedy to be had, where they have a chip on their shoulders …Crimson Fox has a chip on her shoulder that she is the resident champion of Charm City when she could be with the Justice League, but she’s only ever gotten an invite to Justice League Europe, which is kind of a sticking point for her. She may or may not toy with the idea of pulling a Lebron James and taking her talents to a larger city in the DC universe. We have an episode where that may or may not happen.

There Are A Number of Batman Connections In The Show

The ensemble works for Wayne Security, which is made up for the show, but we’re saying it’s a subsidiary of Wayne Industries, so Gotham is the mothership, but then in Charm City, that’s the headquarters for Wayne Securities. Van Wayne — Alan’s character — is Bruce’s cousin, and someone who is a retcon of a character that made a single appearance in a 1961 or ‘62 comic book. Even though Bruce is not a big part of the show, we thought it was a good thing to put into the pilot, and the tapestry of the show, of having a Wayne. Because everybody knows Bruce Wayne is Batman, everybody knows the name Bruce Wayne, so just as an entry point it felt right. We’re not borrowing a ton of mythology from the Batman universe, though you will see an episode whose storyline revolves around an errant Batarang. Danny Pudi’s character actually finds one after a safe that Wayne Security makes, which has been destroyed in a bank robbery, is shipped back to them so they can do a forensics examination, and then within the vault, they find an errant Batarang. It then becomes all about them trying to actually hunt down Batman by using the Batarang, because they assume — correctly — that there’s a tracking device in it, because Batman never leaves his shit around for too long.

So we do take some stuff from the Batman mythology, but the show is not like Gotham, where it’s so consumed by that. We wanted to spread it out over the DC universe in its entirety. But, in the first episode, listen for Adam West as the voice of the Wayne Security promo.

Standalone Vs Serialized Storytelling

I absolutely think there’s an opportunity for the characters to evolve. Again, the first season, you’re trying to sort of design the episodes so that you can, as much as possible, mix them up in the order. You want to put your best foot forward, and so if we shoot the episodes, one, two, three, four, five in a row, maybe the air order is going to end up being one, two, four, three, five. You know what I mean? You want the opportunity to have pure episodic storytelling, at least early on, but absolutely, I think by the end of the first season we’ll see our characters making a little bit of progress in their interpersonal relationships. I certainly think, if we were gifted with a season two, you’d have much more of an opportunity to serialize the show. In a world where NBC is airing shows like The Good Place, which was a fairly serialized show, it opens up opportunities to do that sort of thing.

Remember The Time Superman Turned The World Backwards?

We’re cooking up an episode right now called “No Consequences Day,” that’s kind of a love letter to the 1978 Richard Donner Superman movie, where in our version, Teddy, Danny Pudi’s character, comes running into the office excited, because Lois Lane is dead. Everybody’s, like, “Why are you excited that this very well-known public figure is dead?” and he, being a bit of a conspiracy theorist, says, “Well, there’s this theory that this has happened before, and when it did, Superman flew around the world, reversed the Earth’s rotation, and actually turned back time, so we’ve got about eight hours to do whatever the hell we want …” And it just becomes this fun, wish-fulfillment episode where our characters are allowed to let out their inner IDs, because Superman is going to eventually turn back time. Of course, maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t, but that’s part of the plot, the sort of tension of whether or not he’s actually going to do it. We do get to play with that kind of high-concept stuff as well.

Playing With The DC Multiverse

Our focus is the getting the twelve episodes ordered in this particular context done, but if there is a world where they need a thirteenth episode, we have all of that footage from the original pilot before the show changed, so it could allow us to do something crazy, like a multiverse sort of concept. You could use the whole buffalo and then shoot bumpers, or bookends, where there’s something involving a multiverse, and in another version of our world, they work in insurance. It would be such a geeky-cool thing to do, though I feel, just in general, the audience would be so confused. That one’s a long shot, but we’ll see.

Why The Audience Should Watch

If you’re a genre fan, and if you’re a comedy fan, but specifically if you’re a superhero fan … I think this is a combination of those elements that I’ve never seen before. There hasn’t been anything quite like it on television that I can personally recall, and I’ve seen a lot of television, so I really think, if you like the genre comedies, this is something you’re going to want to watch. Also, it’s very “feel good;” it’s a really light, positive show, that just does kind of make you feel good watching it.



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- Vanessa Hudgens sobre el encontrar su poder en la serie de la NBC 'Powerless' (THR):
Vanessa Hudgens sobre el encontrar su poder en la serie de la NBC 'Powerless'
Por Craig Tomashoff 01 Febrero 2017


Vanessa Hudgens has a lot in common with Emily Locke, her character on NBC's freshman DC Comics comedy Powerless. They're both young, endearingly optimistic women taking on a new job unlike anything they've ever done before. There's really just one big difference between Hudgens' life and Locke's: a decided lack of superhero-on-supervillain violence.

In the series — the first TV comedy to be set in the DC Comics universe — Emily moves to Charm City for a new job as director of research and development for Wayne Security (yes, as in Bruce). Watching superheroes destroy as many high rises as they do bad guys is a daily occurrence, which annoys pretty much everyone in town except small-town escapee Emily.

"She's just a really lively and useful ambitious woman in a world that is more jaded, and for sure I see myself in the same way," explains the actress, adding that she also feels "grateful and blessed that we both get to do what we love every day." For Hudgens, that's acting. For Emily, it's being creative and watching men and women in tights and capes flying across the sky.

It's no coincidence that Emily seems so much like Hudgens. According to executive producer Patrick Schumacker, "early iterations of the character made her seem a bit more of a demure wallflower." However, NBC was not thrilled with the direction Powerless was heading in, so the show's initial creative team (including creator Ben Queen) exited and Schumacker and Justin Halpern took over.

"The network had seen Vanessa's performance as Rizzo in Fox's Grease last year, which got them excited about giving her character more gusto and edge," Schumacker says. "We've been embracing that more and more as we go. The first time we sat down with her as showrunners, we were walking on eggshells because creative control had been turned over to us and we didn't know what to expect. From that first meeting, though, we discovered that Vanessa is a real gamer. She put a lot of trust in us and sparked to what we wanted to do. We walked away feeling like we had some promising stuff ahead of us."

To make Powerless work, the producers needed Emily to be the most grounded person in a world filled with superpeople. That meshed perfectly with Hudgens' skill set, Schumacker adds, because of the actress' Mary Tyler Moore-like optimism. And just like Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Emily is the one trying to stay positive while surrounded by cynical co-workers.

"Vanessa is kind of like the den mother for everyone on the set, which is true even though she's one of the youngest castmembers," Schumacker says. "She has taken on a leadership quality and that's what we're writing into the show for her now too."

Starring on a series based in a comic book universe is not something Hudgens ever figured she'd end up doing. Superhero shows and movies were never her thing. OK, so she admits she "saw Tim Burton's Batman movies back when I was really young and fell so in love with Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman that I'd dress up like her every day." But besides that, her interest in Powerless had nothing to do with the heroes and villains.

"My favorite shows are The Office and Parks and Recreation," Hudgens explains. "They're both so fun and silly. They always made me laugh, and both were on NBC. So, when I found out NBC was doing a similar workplace comedy, I knew this was something I wanted to do. Knowing it was DC's first comedy just made it that much more special."

As much as she's enjoying being part of this unique twist on a workplace comedy, there's also something near and dear to her she's hoping might make the experience even more special — music. After all, Hudgens' first big role came in the High School Musical movies. Not a week goes by without someone coming up to her to gush about how much High School Musical meant to them, a reminder of how much the experience also meant to her.

"It was a journey the cast went on together and became this chance to be silly and dance around with your best friends," she recalls. "It was my first big acting experience. It was when I found a boyfriend. It was all just a really exciting time in our lives so it's great to look back fondly on how much fun it was to just run, sing and dance with these people I leaned on."

Her Grease experience was similarly life-changing. Playing Rizzo, she says, helped open the door for "a lot more opportunities in television, which is in an area I haven't delved into too much." Not surprisingly given this history, she'd love to incorporate her singing and dancing skills into the show. And the producers are only too happy to oblige, according to Schumacker, who says that "it was a no-brainer to get that into our show because she's known for her singing and she excels at it."

"I'm singing on set all the time," she admits. "I do everything, from Disney princesses to Billie Holiday to New Orleans-style jazz. I'm always singing — in the shower, in the car, everywhere. And I think the writers are going to work all that into the show. I just read a script for episode nine, and that definitely has a musical element to it. I can't say what it is, but it's going to be fun to do."

Hudgens welcomes the chance to teach her co-stars a thing or two about music, just as she's enjoying them teaching her about comedy.

"This has been a good, constant acting class for me," she explains. "I'll admit that comedy isn't my natural instinct. For a while, I was really into dramas and comedy definitely scared me. I think I'm a silly person but doing comedy on-camera is hard."

That could have been a problem, seeing as how Schumacker says that "the show is important for DC so it can demonstrate that, as a company and a creative force, it has a sense of humor. Some of the movies, in particular, have been darker in nature."

While that kind of pressure might make any leading lady a little uneasy, Hudgens has been able to loosen up after a particular conversation with her co-star, Alan Tudyk (Rogue One, Firefly), who plays Van Wayne, a distant cousin of Bruce Wayne's and Emily's insecure boss. He assured her comedy was actually very easy, which got her to relax and apply that philosophy both at and away from her new job.

"I thought I was silly and funny before Powerless," she says. "But being on this show and this cast, … it feels like a whole new world for me now."

Powerless bows Feb. 2 at 8:30 p.m. on NBC.


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- Vanessa Hudgens adelanta su nueva serie, un cameo de DC y más (ksitetv):
Vanessa Hudgens adelanta su nueva serie, un cameo de DC y más
Por Craig Byrne, 01 Feb 2017


Last week KSiteTV visited the set of NBC’s new DC Comics workplace comedy Powerless, a show starring Vanessa Hudgens of High School Musical and Grease Live! fame as a young woman going to work at a company run by none other than Bruce Wayne’s inept cousin, Van Wayne, as played by Firefly’s Alan Tudyk. The series is the first comedy ever set in the DC Comics universe, and it is populated by some familiar global guardians who might have more in common with Justice League Europe than the big-time Justice League; in fact, the town of Charm City might be too B-list to even attract any Legends of Tomorrow.

Powerless - Season Pilot“We have Crimson Fox and Jack O’Lantern. Those are our main superhero and villain in Charm City,” Hudgens says about the main DC characters we will see in Powerless. “Jack O’Lantern’s always terrorizing the town of Charm City. We’ve had a few fun random ones. I think that’s what’s really funny about our show, is that in Charm City, it’s kind of like the B-list superheroes and supervillains. You’ll never see Batman there, really, but there are a few interesting comic characters.”

Keeping with the DC theme, like many DC TV series before it, the Powerless pilot features an important appearance that was actually a clip from the first, unused version of the Powerless premiere. The scene, which we see in flashback, features Superman: The Movie’s Jimmy Olsen, Marc McClure.

“It was a quickie,” Hudgens recalls of her time working with the actor who portrayed Jimmy in four Superman movies as well as the Supergirl film with Helen Slater. “He was in for only a few minutes and he was gone before I knew it, but he was so, so sweet. He was a really awesome guy who’s done really awesome stuff, so it was great having him on set,” she enthuses.

As for her own character, Emily Locke, Hudgens describes her as very positive and very optimistic. “I don’t think anything can change that, because that is truly who she is. She really believes she can change the world, and she wants to, and she wants to motivate people to do the same, but obviously being around superheroes and supervillains, getting used to the damage that they cause, and getting used to having the worst boss ever, it definitely is taxing on Emily, but she stays chipper,” she says.

Finally… Hudgens is often heard singing on the set of Powerless. Could this mean a musical episode might happen in the future? “Musical things happen at times, not in a musical episode. But there could be one in the future, yeah. I am singing all the time, so maybe that would give them a hint.”


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- Alan Tudyk sobre ‘Powerless’, el interpretar a la oveja negra de la familia Wayne, y ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2′ (collider):
Alan Tudyk sobre ‘Powerless’, el interpretar a la oveja negra de la familia Wayne, y ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2′
Por Christina Radish 02 Feb 2017


The NBC comedy series Powerless is set in a world where humanity must cope with the collateral damage of superheroes and supervillains while Wayne Security, a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises, specializes in inventing and marketing products that make defenseless bystanders feel a little safer. Emily Locke (Vanessa Hudgens) is the new Director of Research & Development for a team that she must convince to live up to their full potential, under a boss, Van Wayne (Alan Tudyk), who’s just looking to leave Charm City behind to join Bruce Wayne in Gotham.

During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actor Alan Tudyk talked about what originally attracted him to Powerless, the show’s evolution, getting to play a character that’s the black sheep of the Wayne family, what Van really thinks of Bruce, whether Van would like his own superpowers, and how impressed he is with the show’s leading lady, Vanessa Hudgens. He also talked about the likelihood that he’ll return for Wreck-It Ralph 2, even though he hasn’t done any voice work on it yet, whether he’d do the third season of Young Justice, and just how much he’s enjoying making the web series Con Man.

Collider: How did you come to this project? And since this was a bit different show when you originally signed on, what was the appeal of it for you?

ALAN TUDYK: It was getting to explore the other side of superheroes, in a comedy. I loved the idea of a superhero or a villain coming in and causing what we know as bad traffic. There’s a season for snow, but then there’s a season for snow villains, which is a different season, altogether. It’s the normalizing of extraordinary beings and seeing them through the eyes of just regular folks, and it being a comedy. The outcome is meant to be funny.

With as busy as you are now, with a web series, animated movies and TV shows, and you’re a part of Star Wars, did you ever hesitate about signing on for another TV series, or was this just too irresistible?

TUDYK: I didn’t hesitate. I love doing series. I haven’t done many. I like getting to develop a character over time. And I love doing comedies. It was an easy decision. I can stay home. I love doing movies and traveling all over the world. With Star Wars, we went to the Maldives and Jordan, and I lived in London for six months, which was incredible. But I like living in my house with my wife, also. That’s pretty great. We just got married, so I’m really loving it. She doesn’t want to get on a plane, every three weeks, and fly 12 or 14 hours to come see me. Although, that was pretty romantic, too. We just got married.

This show had a little bit of a shake-up with the setting and characters, and you ended up becoming a Wayne. What was your reaction when you found out about that and how the show would be going in a different direction?

TUDYK: I was excited! It immediately puts my character in the superhero world without making me a superhero, or even aware that I’m in the superhero world. I, previously, was a rich kid of an insurance company. Although that was fun to play, this makes me a spoiled rich kid, growing up, who is in the Wayne Industries. He has a place that he wants to go, that is exciting. He wants to go to Gotham. My other character didn’t want to do anything. He just wanted to sit back and play golf. Now, he has ambition, even though he doesn’t want to put in the work to do it. It added a really fun dimension to the character and opened up a lot more possibilities for storylines.

Do you think Van Wayne idolizes Bruce, or do you think he believes he’d be better than Bruce, if given the chance?

TUDYK: I think he idolizes Bruce. If he realized how much Bruce has to work, he definitely would not be interested in taking that position. Van has a strained relationship with his parents. I keep trying to slip in a line that he was raised by the gardeners. He wasn’t just raised by the help. It was specifically the gardeners. Maybe that could be something he’d be jealous of, or think that he’d want that part of Bruce Wayne’s life. So far, he hasn’t expressed a grudge.

Do you think he secretly wishes he had superpowers, or does he prefer his power to come from success in business?

TUDYK: Oh, my god, he’d love a superpower! I think he’d love it. Absolutely! He could just kick back. He’d be famous. Superheroes are famous. So many doors would open for him. It would be less work. If you’re super strong, you don’t have to go to the gym because you’re just super strong. He’d love getting results without having to put in the work.

What does Charm City represent to Van, and why does Gotham City seem so much more appealing to him?

TUDYK: Gotham is the big city. I think of Gotham like New York City. It’s sexy and famous. It’s where things happen. Charm City is not New York. It is very not New York. And the superheroes that live there are not Batman or Superman. They’re Crimson Fox. She’s good and all. She’s great. But, those other guys are A-list stars. Those are the biggies. He just wants to be where the action is, and imagines himself a star of that world, too. If he made it there, he thinks he’d fit right in.

The cast of Powerless is all very funny and you have some funny interactions with each other, but Vanessa Hudgens was the most inexperienced with comedy, coming into this show. How has she been to work with? Did she just jump right in, and is she game for anything?

TUDYK: She is game for anything. I knew Vanessa, just through her being a famous person. I’m older, so I didn’t watch High School Musical. I’d seen her in some movies, but she’s always the bad girl, so I just assumed that’s who she was. But she’s so bubbly and fun, and she’s definitely up for anything when it comes to the comedy. We went to karaoke. I’m not keen, so much, on karaoke, but it was a full-on aerobic dance concert in this place, with Psy’s “Gangnam Style” and all of the cast members. I couldn’t keep up. She’s fun. She’s a blast to have around. I feel very lucky to have her as our leading lady.

Have you been approached yet about returning for Wreck-It Ralph 2?

TUDYK: It has been suggested that I will be participating in that, but I honestly don’t know specifics. I have not worked on it, to this day. I can say that for sure. I have not been in any recording booths. I was invited to participate in the read-through, but I was in London doing Star Wars. It was a cool, “I wish I could, but I’m fighting Stormtroopers.”

Do you know if you’ll return for Season 3 of Young Justice?

TUDYK: No, I don’t think so. No one has said anything to me, but those things kind of come up out of nowhere and I go, “Really? Oh, great!” So, possibly, if it comes out of nowhere. I don’t know. It would be cool. If they ask me, I’d do it. Those are always fun.

You must be having a lot of fun making Con Man with Nathan Fillion. At what point did you realize that that series was becoming as successful as it is? Is it above and beyond what you imagined you’d be able to do with it?

TUDYK: Oh, yeah! I initially wanted to write a pilot, just to write a pilot and get it funded by a studio, where there were all sorts of strings attached to it and a lot of cooks in the kitchen. Now, we’ve released the final episodes of Season 2. We went from crowd-funding, which was overwhelming in its support, from the first day when we raised more money than any other series. I think it still stands that it’s the fastest to reach a million dollars in 24 hours. And then, we had the chance to make it the way we wanted to make it, and not just make a pilot, but make what came out to be six half-hour episodes. And then, Lionsgate came along and said, “Make six more,” and gave me pretty much the same offer that I got from crowd-funding, which was having artistic freedom within it. They said, “Make the show you want to make. We liked the way you made the last six. Make six more, the way you want.” I don’t know of anybody who gets to do that. It was a really good time. We made the musical episode, and we didn’t have to get clearance to do that or any of it. We gave them the scripts, but I don’t know that they even read them. It’s been amazing! It’s a huge marker in my life. It’s pre-Con Man and post-Con Man. It’s not past, but it’s before Con Man, and then after starting Con Man. It’s been an incredible education.

Are you hoping to do more episodes?

TUDYK: I definitely have more stories to write. It will be interesting with Powerless. It will be a little bit more of a juggle. But there are some funny scripts that I started writing, a long time ago. Before we crowd-funded, I just kept writing until we had the money. So, I have a few that I’d really like to shoot.

Powerless airs on Thursday nights on NBC.


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- Pudi ya ha picado muchas horas en el DCU (CBR):
Pudi ya ha picado muchas horas en el DCU
Por Scott Huver 02 Feb 2016


Danny Pudi has been mentally preparing to live in the DC Universe for most of his life.

Already a fandom favorite for his endearing and wholly original portrayal of “Community’s” meta-media-immersed Abed, Pudi’s now putting directly in the DCU, or at least a multiversal variation thereof. On the new NBC sitcom “Powerless,” Pudi plays a leading R&D star at an offshoot office of Wayne Security in the parallel world of Earth-P, where Superman, Batman and other superheroes save the day in the background and the office’s everyday occupants go about their daily dramas.

It’s world Pudi’s eminently qualified to inhabit, as he reveals to CBR that he’s been regularly journeying to comic book universes since he was a kid, and the unique “Community”/Comic-Con bond have prepared for an even longer-term residence.

CBR: I know that you have your own not-quite-Abed-level pop cultural interest. What was the spark for you with this project and bringing some real comedy to this rich world of genre superhero material that we’ve been enjoying for the last several years?

Danny Pudi: I grew up a fan of superhero worlds — DC Comics, and other comics as well. I still do enjoy a lot of comics. I’m loving “Saga” right now – it’s my favorite ongoing; amazing! Specifically within this world, I think that I was drawn to the fact that it’s the first DC comedy. I thought, “That’s exciting, it’s new, it’s different — it’s high-risk.” I think I’m very familiar with working in an environment that I don’t know what’s going to happen. I was drawn to that.

At the same time, I love the idea of exploring something new within the superhero universe. I think that we’re aware of all the different superhero movies and franchises out there right now, and to me it was exciting to see what’s up with the real people that are dealing with all the rubble. Trying to figure out how everyone has such nicely tailored outfits flying above them. So I was definitely drawn to that.

The kid in me has always been a fan of Batman and the DC Universe, so I can’t help but get excited when something like this came up.

Tell me about getting your arms around your character – figuring out who he was and how he fit, both in the office world and in the bigger superhero world around them.

It’s been interesting. I play Teddy, who is the chief design officer at Wayne and their R&D unit. Teddy takes himself very seriously. He’s this very creative genius, has impeccable style, is a person who appreciates good art and design aesthetics. I think he’s also a realist. He comes from a family of high achievers. Also, he understands his limitations.

It’s been interesting finding a balance of someone who can be very realistic at times, and a little jaded by sort of the superheroes in the world, and his place in the world, but at the same time, someone who understands the reality of the fact that a superhero might at any moment come crashing through the office windows. Also, someone who really does have dreams of doing something great and heroic.

I think that’s the whole thing with Teddy. On the outside, he comes across as very confident and secure in many ways, with his job, and his role socially in the office. But inside, I think he’s dealing with a lot of insecurity. With his family, and also just his frail nature. It’s been kind of fun to find that balance.

When you’ve created a truly memorable and unique sitcom character once, as you have on “Community,” what’s it like to come and try to figure out how to create a second one that feels fresh and distinctive, but is still outwardly you?

Yeah. Thank you, first of all. I’m very lucky that I was able to do that in the first place, and I got to work on an incredible show. I’ve been given chances, and I think that’s the thing. I’m lucky that I get another chance to do something else different.

It’s a challenge. Every day on “Community” was a challenge. I think this is no different. It’s challenging, but it’s exciting. I like digging into a new world and finding the moments here that these are very uniquely Teddy moments. So I think a lot of it just comes with time and given chances. I’m lucky I’ve been given good writing and good opportunities to work on stuff and explore stuff.

At the same time, I’m hoping that I do my best. I’m just trying to find the moments here that are very Teddy, truly Teddy, and bring as much as I can to it. That’s really it. Surrounding yourself with good people, and hoping that you get enough chances, and enough cracks at it where you can find something cool and different. A lot of it starts with my excitement, and this is a project that I was excited about.

On set, given that you are a fan, what have been some of those fanboy moments for you, in the way that you get to interact with the DC Universe?

There’s an episode where we have a fantasy superhero draft, and I draft The Flash. I’m very excited about that because I would draft The Flash in a fantasy superhero draft, based on his speed and overall ability, all that kind of stuff. I would definitely draft The Flash, and I think that was exciting for me.

There’s an episode where we get a Batarang, we find a Batarang. That was exciting for me, as Danny as well as Teddy. Specifically with Teddy, Teddy is very interested in materials, in design, and just the craftsmanship of products. He appreciates good craftsmanship. The Batarang is perfectly crafted. I think that has been very exciting, to kind of see — I would love to, someday I would love to work for Batman. That would be a dream. Don’t tell anybody else. Don’t tell anybody else in Wayne Securities. But yeah, I think Teddy might have a secret dream of being the product designer for Batman. That’d be cool.

A lot of times we see these TV characters get incorporated into the actual comic books that DC and Marvel publish. What would it mean to you to see Teddy turn up as a character in DC Comics in some sort of continuity?

It’d be amazing! I’m not going to lie: it would be amazing! It would be so funny, and bizarre, and exciting. There again, one step closer to making my parents proud of me. So I need all these things. Just like Teddy. I need to prove to parents that I’m doing something positive and taking advantage of all their sacrifices.

There was a lot of fan crossover from “Community” with the comic book fan audience. You guys went to Comic-Con many times. You’ve been in an actual serious comic book movie yourself with “The Winter Soldier.” Tell me what you love about that fanbase, the folks who is almost certainly are going to be the first ones tuning into this show.

From day one, we were embraced and loved, and that, to me, meant everything. It was shocking. The first Comic-Con I went to with the cast of “Community,” we were in such a bubble. Everything was so new to me: really, the industry and that role. I was so uncertain at what was going to happen with the show. Every season it was like that. But to see how we were embraced by an audience, and to see how much it meant to people, and how I connected with people, it was surprising.

First of all, because I’m used to my mom telling me “good job,” but it was weird because I’d meet strangers that were like quoting lines from Abed for me, and wanting to do the “La Biblioteca” rap with me. That to me is still shocking and amazing. It’s a great reminder that we have a chance to connect with people in a fun, special way. And I think in many ways the reason “Community” survived six seasons, and waiting on the movie, the reason is largely due to the fans and how they embraced the show and quoted the show.

I bought some fan art. I bought some art that some fans made of each of us as one of the “Wizard of Oz” characters from the “Community” art show. I’ve been to Comic-Con multiple times, talked to people. All the people out there wearing Inspector Spacetime outfits. All the people out there building Dreamatoriums. I appreciate you, and thank you for tuning in and making me realize how lucky I am to do what I do.

Tell me a little bit more about your personal love affair with comics. When did it start? Give me a sense of your relationship with the medium over the years.

As a kid, I first got into it I think with my brother and my cousin. My cousin gave us a big box of tons of X-Men comics and some Batman comics. As a kid, I was really into Batman; my brother was into “Superman.” It was sort of just naturally there. As I got older, I kind of drifted away. I was aware of them, but I wasn’t as much into it.

Over the last few years, more and more, and especially because of “Community,” I’ve gotten much more back into comics. Every now and then I kind of go back. Now I’m reading a bunch regularly, whether it’s Saga or The Sandman or DC titles like Kingdom Come, or some of my favorite Batman ones like The Long Halloween, which is incredible. [Batman:] Year One, all that kind of stuff.

Over the years, I’ve gotten back into it, and it’s been fun, so now it’s pretty regular. I read a lot of graphic novels. Now that I have kids too, it’s fun, because I’m reading Tiny Titans to my son right now. It’s pretty hilarious. There’s a lot of fun stuff in there. It’s been fun introducing him to that world softly. Comics have kind of always been in my life.

Just like “Community,” and just like with this show, there are fans that are going go know some of the characters we throw out there and some of the references way better than I do. That’s where the lines are split a little bit. Just like with “Community,” people would be quoting episodes of “M*A*S*H,” or they’d be quoting episodes of, whatever, “Firefly,” anything like that with me, and I’d be like, “I’m sorry: I know some of this, I don’t know as much as Abed.” It’s going to be the same thing here.

I definitely have familiarity with DC Comics. They were influential when I was a kid. But at the same time, it’s such a huge, huge canon and a huge library, so I don’t know if I’ll be able to reference as many as some of our fans will be able to.

You’re already going to be a major answer to a trivia question when it comes to actors who have appeared in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC universe in film and TV. Is that a very proud distinction for you?

I’m excited! I think that’s kind of cool! All this stuff – I’m just still surprised that I’m doing this, to be honest. I had a day job until I booked “Community,” where I was an actuarial recruiter. I think part of me is surprised that I still get to do this. I feel very lucky.

Yeah, it’s nice to be an answer for a trivia thing that is something positive. I’ll say that. I think my family would be very happy that it’s not like someone who has been arrested for stealing baseball cards multiple times, or doing whatever I was doing, breaking records for detentions. I think my family would be very happy that it’s that trivia question/answer.

Is there a special perk? Is DC hooking you up with free graphic novels now?

Yes, they are! I’m being transparent about it. I’ve got a whole box of them I haven’t started. I’ve got “Kingdom Come” — what else? I got “Super Friends” comics. “Tiny Titans,” that was a gift from DC. They may have given me “Arkham Asylum.” I can’t remember. I love Grant Morrison – his stuff is good!

They’ve been so awesome about stuff like that. They’ve been just like, “Let us know if you need anything.” So I got “The New Frontier” from them, “Identity Crisis” from them – “Identity Crisis” was great, too! Love that comic. That was really cool. That’s my favorite one. I think Elongated Man is my boy, right there!

Maybe he can do a cameo on the show too.

I’d love it, man. Me and him could do some office stretching. I could teach him some office stretching exercises. Actually, he’d probably teach me.


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- Showrunner de "Powerless" proporciona las reglas básicas de minar el DCU con risas (CBR):
Showrunner de "Powerless" proporciona las reglas básicas de minar el DCU con risas
Por Scott Huver 02 Febrero, 2017


As a lifelong comic book fan, writer-producer Patrick Schumacker has scored a dream gig: he’s one of the most powerful forces in the DC Universe. At least, he is on Earth-P.

Showrunner Schumacker, who’s past TV credits include “Cougar Town” and “iZombie,” has teamed with his frequent collaborator Justin Halpern (creator of the “$#*! My Dad Says” Twitter account and subsequent TV series) to take the helm of “Powerless,” NBC’s office-workplace sitcom set squarely in the confines of the DC Universe.

Or at least a DC Universe: “Powerless” takes place on the multiversal Earth-P, at an R&D wing of Wayne Security set in a metropolis called Charm City. A version of the pantheon of DC’s most famous superheroes – and many of its lesser lights – do exist in the reality, primarily to be played for laughs against the backdrop of the everyday office hijinks and mishaps.

Schumacker joined CBR for a deep-dive into the rules and philosophies the creators are employing as they mine hilarity out of the superheroic.

CBR: The show has such an interesting mashup of concepts, so let’s start with that: tell me how easy or challenging it’s been to match an office workplace comedy with the superhero environment of the DC Universe. Has it been easy to come up with stories that serve both premises?

Patrick Schumacker: Yeah. It’s a real small target to hit, I think – hopefully we do. We’re always trying to service the workplace comedy first, and really concentrate on our office characters, who are all mortal human beings, you or I. But then, pepper in as much of the DC fun as we can every episode, without it becoming reliant on that every week for sort of outside influences.

Every episode, storylines kick off for any number of reasons, with influences from the DC Universe. There could be a storyline where Wonder Woman has a nip slip while fighting whomever, and it becomes the water cooler discussion the next day and kicks off a conversation and storyline about gender inequality.

We also have an actual episode coming up – that other one was a hypothetical – where our company ends up landing the entire kingdom of Atlantis as a client, essentially. Their government officials come and visit our offices, because their security provider is up for review, essentially, after a giant Black Manta attack. Our R&D team has to pitch them on some new ideas.

Generally speaking, we are trying to service both the high-concept, and the more commonplace workplace comedy. Yeah, it absolutely has been challenging! You don’t want to lean too hard either way, and at the same time, you don’t want to make such a compromise that neither party is satisfied. You don’t want to try and shoot for like a four quadrant show that satisfies no one ultimately. So it’s a first season show. It’s a learning process.

We have an episode where the entire episode revolves around a superhero fantasy league. So in our world, the analog for Fantasy Football would actually involve superheroes, and it happens at a certain time of year, and the point system of course, all completely aping football, but it’s saves instead of TDs. Superman saving Lois Lane only counts as one point, because a particular victim only counts as one point – some weeks Superman only saves Lois Lane, and he’s not going to give you a bunch of points that week, so he’s kind of boom or bust. There’s like a whole logic that we had to kind of come up with regarding a superhero fantasy league.

We have an episode where there is a cold season happening, and cold season in our world is actually a time of year when all of DC’s cold-themed villains, of which there are many, descend upon Charm City and kind of wreak havoc. We kind of treat it as a sort of tongue in cheek-y weather pattern sort of thing, but it’s actually the entire city being frozen over because of Frostbite, Captain Cold, Killer Frost — the list goes on and on and on.

So yeah, when we started trying to figure things out, we really just sat down and were like, ‘What would daily life be like for you or I living in a world where superheroes are there every day doing battle with super villains up in the sky, on the street level, etc, etc?” It generated a ton of ideas, which in turn, generate a lot of story areas. That said, if we get an idea that is super high-concept-y, and we absolutely love it, we’ll try and push it through. But if it’s not really servicing any sort of emotional through line with our characters that everybody can kind of relate to, sometimes we’ll have to shelve it.

You obviously knew the sitcom form and those kind of comedic setups very well, but how conversant with the DC Universe and the world of superheroes were you prior to this project?

I grew up reading comics. I was both a Marvel zombie and a DC fan. I’ve always been a massive Batman fan. I was born in 1980. I probably got into comics right around the time when Superman died and Image Comics was forming. Jim Lee’s “X-Men” got me into it, as it got a ton of people. So I’ve been pretty hardcore, both DC and Marvel, kind of off and on throughout my life. I may or may not have an “X-Men” tattoo. Probably shouldn’t say that out loud, considering I work with DC!

Of course, working on this show, I’ve ended up inundating myself with what [DC Comics] doing right now, with the Rebirth movement, whatever you want to call it, and that sort of reshaping of the DC Universe. I’ve gotten hardcore back into the comics. We were kind of working with DC on some other film and projects prior to taking over the show.

I’ve been kind of in the thick of it for quite some time. I don’t claim to be the encyclopedia of DC mythology that somebody like Geoff Johns is, but when Geoff Johns and Aria Moffly and Dan Evans over at DC are one phone call away, it’s basically like having that. Yeah, I’m pretty well-versed.

Tell me a little bit about finding a balance with the more popularly known superheroes that DC has versus like some more obscure characters. How do the arguments go when it’s like, “This joke’s funny if we reference Wonder Woman, but it might be funnier if we reference Crimson Fox?”

First off, we’re coming from a place of trying to exist within our own universe. It is the DC Universe, but we’re calling it Earth-P – it exists in a multiverse where the Greg Berlanti Arrowverse exists as well, and the Zack Snyder films exist, but they’re kind of all in their own separate universes within this umbrella multiverse.

So within Earth-P, there exists a city called Charm City, and we’re saying it’s kind of this Cleveland-sized kind of mini-Metropolis that is not necessarily the most desirable place to live, but it’s not bad. It’s like a nice place to raise a family if you’re going to live in a mid-sized city. I grew up in St. Louis. I kind of liken it to that.

The resident champion, sort of heavy hitter within Charm City’s confines is Crimson Fox. We like the idea that the city’s kind of an underdog city, that their resident champion is not the most powerful super-being in existence by a long shot, and that there is, much like the citizens of Charm City, kind of a chip on Crimson Fox’s shoulder as well for sort of being in the Justice League, but it’s Justice League Europe. She’s not necessarily ever going to get the call to join the A-team.

Especially in a comedy, we always liked the idea of using those more obscure DC characters, and hopefully bringing them to a wider audience. There was kind of a big philosophical conversation early on in the show about, “How do we treat superheroes in this world? Do we treat them as demigods living in their own bubble, but don’t really interact with our characters that much?” But they are kind of these pure, earnest, almost perfect examples of perfection that our characters, our mortal characters, can kind of look up to and either envy, or despise, or just want to be based on whoever our characters in the office are.

Or are superheroes, like Crimson Fox, more human, more flawed, and more self-aware that maybe they’re not Superman? The villains who frequent Charm City aren’t Darkseid. No one’s operating on like a cosmic level. I think we’ve been able to have our cake and eat it too, depending on who the hero is that we’re either referencing, or that we’re actually bringing into our world and having interact with our characters.

We’ve dealt a lot with the Global Guardians, so Crimson Fox being at one point a member of the Global Guardians is the first character that you’re going to see in the show, as you see right at the cold open of the new pilot, and Jack O’Lantern, who is actually been in the Global Guardians, [revamped] to be a villain, also makes an appearance right off the top. They’re sort of like our Joker and Batman for Charm City. Olympian also makes an appearance or two.

Right now, we’re actually writing a script where Fire – aka Green Fury, Green Flame, whatever you want to call her; we’re actually calling her Green Fury right now – even though she wants to be called Fire, nobody seems to get the hint – makes an appearance in a few episodes to actually round out the first season. We’ve cast somebody known for that. I don’t know if I’m allowed to say it, so I can’t right now. But she’s an exciting comic actress that people who are familiar with network television should be familiar with [EDITOR: An interview with ComingSoon revealed the actor to be “Parks & Recreation” alum Natalie Morales]. So with that character, I think we’re trying to find a more of a comedic voice.

We don’t want to sell anybody out. We don’t want to completely reform characters, we don’t want to make fun of any of them. They are people that we should want to aspire to be. They are “better than us,” in the way that we look at professional athletes, or celebrities as better than us, but there are tabloids that kind of expose their foibles. There are derisive detractors that exist in the world that don’t like what they’re doing.

In the case of Crimson Fox, we have a character who’s kind of self-deprecating, who’s kind of very self aware, kind of a Booster Gold-like in the sense that she’s kind of aware of her branding. Our characters get into discussions about that and how, like, “Why do superheroes have uniforms? Or why do they have logos and that sort of thing? There’s kind of a cynical take from some of our comedic characters on why superheroes do the things that they do.

We like the idea of, yes, being able to reference any of the big seven in the Justice League. They exist within this world. But to actually have interactions in a pure comedy with a Crimson Fox, who is a little bit more self-deprecating, a little bit more of a comedic character in the way that we’re writing her, I think you have more license to do that with characters that aren’t quite as defined.

Everyone has an idea of Superman as this Boy Scout, this kind of pure hero, and I don’t think that necessarily works as well in the formula that we’re trying to create, as it would with someone that we have creative license to humanize even more and show those imperfections and flaws in a comedic light.

I’m also curious what your line is as far as meta references: do you want to line up Adam West and Lynda Carter to come in and guest star? Or Ezra Miller, or Grant Gustin? Or would that cross a line?

I don’t think it would. I would absolutely love to. Hopefully in success, we’re able to do do those sort of stunt casting ideas. We’re currently trying to get Adam to do some voice work for our pilot. The for-air version will hopefully, hopefully have Adam as the voice of Wayne Securities industrial videos and commercials. We thought that would be kind of a nice nod, and he’s doing some of the promotional stuff for the show…I don’t want to disappoint anyone, but hopefully that’s happening today. I think it’s going to happen. [EDITOR: West did provide the voiceover for the promotional video]

I think we would love to do the wink-y-wink cameo stuff whenever possible. We had in the current pilot – he was in the original pilot too, and we repurposed some of the footage they shot in the original pilot for a new pilot – the actor who played Jimmy Olsen in Richard Donner’s original “Superman,” Marc McClure. He actually stands in for Emily’s father in the pilot. So we already kind of start with some little Easter egg-y stuff that alludes to the films and other media that have existed, historically, for DC Comics.

But yeah, I love it. I would love it personally just as a fan. So if they’ll let us do it, I would have Jason Momoa show up next season as the Sparkletts guy. He’ll never show up as Aquaman. Ben Affleck will never show up as Batman. We can’t rule out that Grant Gustin could show up some other time playing somebody else, that there’s a little bit of a crossover. You have so much license, given the high-concept nature of this show, I think you have a lot of license.

The idea of a multiverse, I think, gives you license to have an actor from one of the other shows show up playing somebody different. Because who’s to say in this world that Barry Allen or Wally West – Barry Allen if it’s Grant – isn’t a courier? He doesn’t have any powers, necessarily. Or maybe he does, and we just never show it. Maybe he’s the FedEx guy.

Sounds like you guys are ready to have a lot of fun.

We’ve been having a blast making the show. It was tough going originally, because we were trying to redo a pilot while also doing 11 other episodes, kind of all at the same time. It was a giant workload, but now we’re kind of off and running. We’re locked on our pilot. Everybody seems pretty happy with it. Yeah, we’ve really only got four more episodes to kind of figure out the stories for, and some of them I’m really excited about.

If I could say one that’s maybe a pie in the sky but one that we would love to do if allowed: we have an episode that we’re calling “No Consequence Day,” which actually is a nod to the Richard Donner “Superman” film, the 1978 film, the ending of which is Superman flying around the world reversing the rotation of the Earth, and thereby turning back time. And it’s an idea where Lois Lane dies and one of our characters, Danny Pudi’s character, who happens to be kind of a little bit of a conspiracy theorist, it’s his understanding that this has happened before, and when Lois Lane dies, Superman actually turns back time, and therefore they have, oh, about eight hours to do whatever the hell they want.

So it just becomes a sort of wish-fulfillment fantasy episode. It was sort of a grounded wish-fulfillment fantasy episode that takes place in a world where turning back time is actually possible. That’s the kind of stuff that we would love to do. Whether or not we’re going to be able to go that high-concept-y remains to be seen. We want to make sure that it’s consistent with the world that we’ve set up. That’s, for us, the sort of ideal episode of “Powerless.” Hopefully we’ll be able to pull that off.



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- Jefe de 'Powerless' habla sobre el cambiar el curso y encontrar el tono de la primera comedia de DC Comics (THR):
Jefe de 'Powerless' habla sobre el cambiar el curso y encontrar el tono de la primera comedia de DC Comics
Por Sydney Bucksbaum 02 Feb, 2017


[Warning: This story contains spoilers from Thursday's series premiere of Powerless.]

Powerless, NBC's foray into the superhero genre, has gone on quite the journey since the pilot first debuted at San Diego Comic-Con in July.

When Ben Queen initially created the DC Comics comedy, it centered on an insurance company in Charm City that helped normal people suffering fallout from superheroes fighting villains. But less than a month after Powerless' first public screening, Queen exited the series. Patrick Schumacker and Justin Halpern became the new showrunners, and while Powerless remained a workplace comedy set in the superhero universe, everything else changed.

"Justin and I were brought on as five-day-a-week consulting producers on the original show, so we were there for pre-production when Ben Queen was running the show," Schumacker tells THR. "This is when it was a world of insurance. We just hit a wall because nobody on the staff understood the world of insurance and at best, you're telling stories where, if this team wins the day, it's means like f–king somebody out of money. We were really hitting a wall and eventually when the turnover happened, we were asked to take over the show and we decided we wanted to do something that would more organically bring in the genre elements of it."

Powerless eventually evolved into a series about security products for normal people trying to live their lives and survive in a world filled with superheroes and villains.

"We'll get into the preventative business versus the damage control type of stuff," Schumacker says. "Once we had the security angle, which really came about just sitting down with Geoff Johns and Aria Moffly over at DC [Comics], just having a big meeting talking about blue sky-ing it, really, NBC was actually the ones who suggested the [research and development] angle. Originally we were like, 'Well, we'll have a sales team for a security company,' because 90 percent of what you're going to see on the show you could have a sales team do as well. But we also liked the idea of being able to go to the tech-y side of things and have Teddy [Danny Pudi] and Ron [Ron Funches] be genius engineers and Wendy [Jenny Pierson] as well, coming up with some more fantastical stuff."

Overhauling the basic premise and setting for the characters helped Schumacker realize that this new angle was "an organic way to bring in a lot of the fun, sci-fi, fantasy stuff into the show, into the workplace, and then it's an everyday occurrence," he says.

"They can create an umbrella called a 'rumbrella' that protects you from falling rubble. Or Teddy has these heat gloves that he's working on that end up benefiting them during cold season which is the time in Charm City when all of the ice-themed villains descend on the city at once and turn it into this winter wonderland. They treat it like it's bad weather."

But overhauling the series was not an easy task.

"It was a long time coming," Schumacker said. "The show actually shut down for a month in between the end of the insurance version of the show and the beginning of the [research and development] security of it all."

The upside was that the new, creatively-retooled version of Powerless allowed for even more DC Comics references and Easter eggs that producers knew would excite comic book fans. However, there are also references those not so familiar with the genre will appreciate, in particular the renaming of Alan Tudyk's character to Van Wayne, making him a distant cousin of Bruce aka Batman.

"This show covers the whole breadth of the DC universe because it's not just Batman mythology," Schumacker says. "We wanted to use the Wayne name as sort of like this brand recognition so it's kind of an entry point. Everybody knows Bruce Wayne; everybody knows that he's Batman so having a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises was at least a touchstone for people who aren't so hardcore into DC mythology."

He continues, "Everybody can say, 'I know who Bruce Wayne is, I'll check it out.' And once they're there, we're talking about the Global Guardians and I don't think, if you ask 10 people on the street, I don't know if five would know what you were talking about. But the show is going to be used hopefully as a springboard to introduce a lot of those more obscure characters to the general population."

One thing that did remain from the original pilot was the opening title sequence, which also play up the DC Comics connection. The credits rip from the pages, literally, of old comic books to show iconic characters like Superman, Batman and The Flash, among others, saving the day as the animated versions of Powerless' core cast looks on.

"I have to give all the credit in the world to Ben Queen, the original showrunner for that, and the title house called Elastic," Schumacker says. "Those guys came up with that for the very first pilot and it's the one piece that remains completely intact from the original, original pilot when everybody worked in an insurance company. I think it's one of the best parts of the show but I had nothing to do with it."

However, the opening credits are about the only time viewers will see DC's most famed superheroes on the series.

"The big seven, your Justice League members, they're never going to make appearances on this show other than hints of it," Schumacker reveals. "Like a batarang [one of Batman's boomerangs] plays a big part in one particular episode where Ron and [Teddy] find a batarang lodged in a safe that was part of a break-in that has been sent back to Wayne Security for analysis. They happen to find it lodged inside of the safe and they're like, 'We're going to meet Batman because he puts tracking devices in everything. He wants to leave no traces so obviously he's going to come back. We are going to prepare to meet Batman.' We'll see them and Van, who does not have a clue that his cousin is Batman, try and meet Batman and look super cool doing it."

As far as how much free reign Schumacker has with the "big seven," it turns out to be... not much.

"They're kind of untouchable as far as we play them straight," he said. "We never make fun of Superman. We never make fun of Batman other than, you know, trivial type of stuff where it's like, 'Well, obviously Bruce Wayne is the Flash,' sort of thing, where characters get shit wrong. It runs the spectrum in the first season. We're still trying to find that right tone to strike with how we treat the characters, but it is first and foremost a comedy. Provided we're not like shitting all over these characters that are beloved, I think anything's fair game."

Instead, Powerless will mostly deal with the "lesser known heroes" from the DC Comics universe to avoid overlapping with The CW's DC lineup of Green Arrow (Stephen Amell), The Flash (Grant Gustin) and Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) as well as Fox's young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz). As Schumacker explains, all these shows exist in different "universes."

"[The Powerless superheroes] are self-aware that they are the B team, that they're never going to be members of the Justice League," Schumacker says. "Crimson Fox is a little pissy that she got the invite to Justice League Europe and not Justice League proper. It depends on the hero. Some of them we do humanize and they have flaws and egos that can be bruised."

Something that Schumacker hopes to explore in the first season is how these B-list superheroes are treated by the normal people who live in the city they frequent.

"We thought that superhero is kind of an analog for professional athletes," Schumacker says. "We've looked at it several different ways. There's kind of a philosophical conversation that we had ongoing throughout the first season, do we want to keep superheroes as gods up in the sky where they're better than us and don't interact with us that much? But as we move forward, especially with someone like Crimson Fox [Atlin Mitchell], you'll start to see them interact with our main cast."

That distant connection between the main characters working at Wayne Security and the more famed faces of DC Comics is something the writers hope to embrace as a plot point as well.

"[The characters] are never going to get what they actually want," Schumacker admits with a smile. "Van's never going to actually get to go to the Gotham mother ship and that carrot is always going to be dangling in front of him. You know, unless we're desperate for ratings."

However, when asked about his long-term plans for the main characters working at Wayne Security beyond the series premiere, Schumacker isn't sure how to answer. "It's hard to say," he said. "I don't have concrete answers for you. I think TV is a living thing and it's taken all of our energy, given the history of this first season, it's taken all of our energy just to figure out the first 12 [episodes], so I think we don't have those answers."


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