“The Power”: Reed Morano No Longer Involved in Amazon Series, Part of Creative Team Overhaul

EXCLUSIVE: The power, Prime Video’s 10-episode global thriller drama based on Naomi Alderman’s feminist sci-fi book, continues to see staff changes. Emmy Winner The story of the maid Director Reed Morano, who was involved with the project from the beginning, has stepped down as director and executive producer.

Morano directed the first two episodes, starring Leslie Mann and Tim Robbins. After the episodes wrapped in March 2022, Morano decided not to continue the series due to creative differences as the series moved into reshoots with Mann and Robbins, both of which were exciting. Toni Collette and Josh Charles were eventually cast for the roles, and Raelle Tucker came on board as showrunner. Upon her departure, Morano also asked to be removed from the credits, to which Amazon agreed, so that she would no longer be credited as a director or executive producer.

The series was in production while other directors shot the new first and second episodes with Collette, Charles and the rest of the cast remaining unchanged, including Auli’I Cravalho, John Leguizamo, Eddie Marsan, Ria Zmitrowicz, Toheeb Jimoh, Zrinka Cvitesic, Ana Ularu and Edwina Findley.

In the power, Suddenly and without warning, teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will. The series features a cast of notable characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, as power evolves from a tingling in the collarbones of teenagers to a complete reversal of the global balance of power.

Featherstone’s Sister Pictures originally optioned Alderman’s book in 2016. Amazon released the project in early 2019 with Morano on board. The power was one of the series hardest hit by the pandemic. Mann was originally cast in October 2019, followed by Rainn Wilson in early 2020. Production began in February 2020, but was halted the following month with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. With filming delayed by a month, Wilson was unavailable and Robbins took over the role in January 2021. The series returned to production in early 2022 until Morano and then Mann and Robbins left.

The power is from Amazon Studios and Sister, with Tucker, Featherstone, Naomi de Pear, Alderman and Claire Wilson as executive producers and Tim Bricknell and Sarah Quintrell as co-executives.