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‘Power’: Starz Opening Writers Room On New Spinoff As ‘Origins’ Development Progresses

There are 2 Power spinoffs in the works. The latest, Power: Legacy, from Gary Lennon & Kendra Chapman, may star Joseph Sikora and Michael Rainey Jr.

Sascha Penn ( Power Book III: Raising Kanan), who had been attached from the get-go as executive producer, will serve as showrunner on the spinoff, whose development has progressed, with a writers’ room currently open and its pickup chances looking good, we hear. Penn, who created Raising Kanan, teased in a recent interview with Deadline that the conclusion of the franchise’s first sequel could herald the return of Ghost and Tommy to be played by new, younger actors set in their early years. With the addition of Shameik Moore in the Season 4 finale of Raising Kanan as Branford ‘Breeze’ Frady, the nephew of street legends Snaps (Wendell Pierce) and Pop (Erika Woods), it sets up the possibility for Ghost and Tommy to appear before the screen goes dark.

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