Monday brought news of Lucy Punch starring in the Powers pilot for FX as Deena Pilgrim, and it looks like now we have a Christian Walker: Deadline is reporting that actor Jason Patric is set to star in the male lead role.
Patric, who just turned 45 this past Friday, was last seen on screen in another comic book adaptation, the 2010 feature film version of Vertigo title The Losers. As Deadline notes, this would be his first regular TV series gig if Powers gets picked up, but last year he starred in an HBO comedy pilot called Tilda.
Christian Walker has been the main focus of the Powers series since the beginning, a homicide detective with a long (very, very long) and colorful past. Patric joins Punch, plus Bailee Madison (Calista) and Charles S. Dutton (Captain Cross) in the cast. Powers co-creator Brian Michael Bendis recently told Newsarama that the pilot should be filming in a few weeks.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:43 am
Looking forward to seeing this.
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:20 am
Well up for this. Didn’t even think of him as a possible Walker, but now I think it’s a great bit of casting, Lucy Punch on the other hand……Apart from the movies they say she’s been in, she was also in our version of Skins and was rubbish. I’m really not convinced she can pull off Pilgrim. I really hope I am wrong, I love Powers.
June 22nd, 2011 at 12:05 pm
I don’t know anything about the character or actor, but just from the pictures… is it just me… or is the actor’s face on upside-down? The character seems to have a huge chin and not much forehead, whereas the actor is just the reverse.
June 22nd, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Patric is the friggin BOMB. Most underrated actor in film today. What a score to get him in this.
June 22nd, 2011 at 3:27 pm
HELL YEAH!