News Powerless Amazon MGM Studios is Developing Lauren Roberts’ Powerless Into a TV Series Landing a streamer and a showrunner makes it increasingly likely this adaptation will make its way to our eyeballs. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 5, 2025 Lauren Roberts photo courtesy of Roberts Comment 0 Share New Share Lauren Roberts photo courtesy of Roberts Lauren Roberts’ Powerless, the first in a romantasy trilogy, is getting a television adaptation. And today we found out that Amazon MGM Studios has picked it up for development, making it ever-more-likely that we’ll see a version of it on Prime Video sometime in the future. According to Deadline, Daphne Ferraro, who wrote on the German shows Maxton Hall and Dark, will be the creator and showrunner for the series. The books have been immensely popular, with the first in the trilogy, Powerless, receiving over 710,000 reviews on Goodreads. The first season of the TV adaptation will follow the events of that book. Here’s the blurb for Powerless, per Goodreads: Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites. The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished to preserve his Elite society, lacking an ability suddenly became a crime—making Paedyn Gray a felon by fate and a thief by necessity.Surviving in the slums as an Ordinary is no simple task, and Paedyn knows this better than most. Having been trained by her father to be keenly observant since she was a child, Paedyn poses as a Psychic in the crowded city, blending in with the Elites as best she can to stay alive and out of trouble…easier said than done.When Paedyn unsuspectingly saves one of Ilya’s princes, she finds herself thrown into the Purging Trials. The brutal competition exists to showcase the Elites’ powers—the very thing Paedyn lacks. If the Trials and the opponents within them don’t kill her, the prince she’s fighting feelings for certainly will if he discovers what she is… completely Ordinary. The project is still in its early days, so no news yet on who will star in the show. Let us use this time to do some fancasting of our own while we wait for further details! [end-mark] The post Amazon MGM Studios is Developing Lauren Roberts’ <i>Powerless</i> Into a TV Series appeared first on Reactor.