Amazon’s adaption of sci-fi female empowerment novel The Power by Naomi Alderman had planned to film in Vancouver last Spring but spread of the Covid-19 pandemic put a stop to that.
Four months later, The Power went back on the B.C. Production List with a summer start, which was pushed back to an early Fall start. And then The Power disappeared from the lists as if it never was.
Now production is moving to the U.K. with a target start next year.
Our era’s Handmaid’s Tale.
Suddenly, and without warning, all teenage girls in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. And they learn they can awaken the Power in older women, too. Soon nearly every woman in the world can electrocute people with her bare hands giving women the physical upper hand over men. And everything is different.
Episodes: 10.
Cast: Leslie Mann, Auliʻi Cravalho , John Leguizamo, Toheeb Jimoh, Ria Zmitrowicz, Halle Bush, Heather Agyepong, Nico Hiraga, Daniela Vega, Chance Hurstfield, Eddie Marsan, Rainn Wilson.
Leslie Mann is Margot Cleary–Lopez, Mayor of Seattle and wife and mother to three kids.
Auliʻi Cravalho, who starred in Disney’s The Little Mermaid Live!, is Margot Cleary-Lopez’s daughter Jocelyn aka Jos who is able to awaken her mother’s power.
Pietra Castro as Izzy Cleary-Lopez,
Chance Hurstfield as Matty Clearly-Lopez.
Other characters:
Halle Bush as Allie Montgomery-Taylor is a young girl who uses her power to kill her abusive foster father, retreats to a convent and reinvents herself as fate leader Mother Eve.
Rain Wilson as Daniel Dandon.
John Leguizamo as Rob.
Showrunner: Naomi Alderman in an all-female writers room.
Producers: Jane Featherstone, Naomi de Pear, Tim Bricknell.
