EXCLUSIVE: The Power Universe’s latest expansion, Power: Origins, is rounding out its cast with six actors as production is underway in New Jersey. Additionally, the crime drama’s first season will consist of 18 episodes, an increase from all prior Power spinoffs, including Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanan and Power Book IV: Force, which have 10-episode seasons each.
Starz teases the new series will be lighter fare, describing it as “a fun, rambunctious exploration of a new time period in the ‘Power’ franchise.” Power: Origins will highlight “the unbridled audacity of young men on the rise, determined to become legends in the game.”
The recurring cast joins the previously-announced leads – Spence Moore playing young Ghost, Charlie Mann as Tommy and Mekai Curtis coming back as Kanan – in this new story following the trio as ambitious young entrepreneurs on the rise, determined to make their mark on the streets of New York City. The original roles in the mothership series were played by Omari Hardwick (Ghost), Joseph Sikora (Tommy), and franchise executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Kanan), who also serves as the narrator on Raising Kanan.
Among the newly added cast members is a familiar face: Jason Dirden, who will reprise the role of Traymont Stinson from Raising Kanan. Traymont was a once-trusted associate of the Thomas family who betrayed them. He was last seen in the first prequel of the franchise’s fourth season in Episode 4. He came close to dying, but survived and is crossing over into Power: Origins in a recurring role.
The first season will also see Jennifer Ferrin (The Blacklist), Lizzy DeClement (New Amsterdam), Lenny Platt (The Hot Zone), Armani Gabriel (Blue Bloods), and Everett Osborne (Sweetwater) in recurring roles.
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Details regarding who they will play can be found below.
Kate Egan (Ferrin): Tommy’s mother, Kate Egan, is melodramatic, attention-seeking, and manipulative, especially if she’s using and desperate to get her hands on her next fix. Despite this, Tommy is fiercely devoted to her, taking care of her and trying to keep her clean.
Jill Wexler (DeClement): Smart, ambitious and sharp-tongued, Jill is a nurse at a local Queens hospital with big dreams to someday go to medical school. A recovering addict who has experienced a lot of heartbreak in her young life, she falls hard for Tommy but is also quick to call him on his bullshit and frequent idiocy.
Lenny Seidell (Platt): A charismatic, confident finance bro turned fitness entrepreneur who owns a handful of successful NYC gyms with ambitions to create a fitness empire. Lenny’s business model relies heavily on providing steroids to his elite gym clientele and he’s always looking for new partners.
J-Boogs (Gabriel): Sharp, street smart and scrappy, J-Boogs is a reliable foot soldier with a good eye for the game. He’s one of Ghost and Tommy’s most trusted corner boys.
Omay Moreau (Osborne): A superstar tight end with the NY Jets and a generous friend to those in his inner circle, Omay invites his pals into an extravagant world of parties, hot women and hotter cars- all with no strings attached- or so it seems.
“[Power: Legacy] is already shooting in New York, and it will have 18 episodes. It’s like two seasons instead of the way we did it last time. So that’s gonna be cool. It’s exciting,” Jackson told Deadline last week while promoting the Netflix documentary he executive produced, Sean Combs: The Reckoning. The four-part documentary drops tomorrow, as will our coverage.
When asked for an update on Power: Legacy (w/t), a present timeline spinoff in development, he joked, “I’m waiting on their money,” referring to Starz.
Raising Kanan recently concluded airing its fourth season, with a fifth and final season in the can and set to premiere in 2026, which will connect to Power: Origins. Force is currently dropping episodes weekly on Sundays from its third and final season. It stars franchise favorite Tommy Egan, who is expected to star in Power: Legacy alongside Power Book II: Ghost‘s star Michael Rainey Jr. in his original role of Tariq St. Patrick. Potentially, this sets up the story for an appearance from Tariq in the finale of Force, leading into their adventures in Legacy, if it gets picked up.
Sascha Penn (Power Book III: Raising Kanan) will showrun and executive produce Power: Origins from a pilot co-written by Penn and Courtney Kemp. The series is executive produced by Kemp, the creator and showrunner of the original Power, through her production company, End of Episode; Jackson, through his G-Unit Film and Television; Mark Canton, through Canton Entertainment; Chris Selak; Kevin Fox; and Pete Chatmon, who also serves as a director. Lionsgate Television will produce for Starz.
