The superhero team of Iron Man, Thor and Captain America isn't the only group of powered-up characters "Avengers" screenwriter Zak Penn is tackling these days. The comics-friendly movie scribe recently had a new television series green-lit for the Syfy network that follows a team of characters with "hyperdeveloped neurological abilities."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Syfy gave the go-ahead to a 90-minute pilot for "Alphas," a project written by Penn and Michael Karnow. The series has been kicking around various networks for two years now under the working title "Section 8," including a stint at ABC when it was considered for airing after episodes of "Lost."
The network went into pre-production on the series before the Writers Guild strike and subsequent creative differences stalled the project.
"What we loved about this idea is that it played into a new way of approaching the superhero genre: the idea of ordinary people
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