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Power Book II: Ghost Co-EP/Writer Had Pilot Plans for Mockingbird

Power: Book II: Ghost co-executive producer and writer Geoffrey Thorne is riding pretty high right now, with the STARZ spinoff series not only scoring with same-day and delayed viewing but also becoming a huge boost to the cable network's app sign-ups. Did we also mention that the series is really, really good? For Thorne and the rest of the creative team, Power fans beginning to embrace the series after only two episodes is exactly what they were aiming for. Now we're learning that James "Ghost" St. Patrick's (Omari Hardwick) universe wasn't the only one that Thorne wanted to have a say in.

Taking to Twitter on Friday, Thorne revealed that he had written a solo pilot script for Adrianne Palicki's Bobbi Morse aka Mockingbird- last seen in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3. To be clear, this was a pilot separate from 2015's proposed pilot Marvel's Most Wanted, which was already filmed before ABC abandoned the project. While Thorne himself pretty much puts the kibosh on the possibility of it happening now, here's a look at Thorne's initial tweet with a follow-up from Thorne that included a sample of the pilot script.

"Power Book II: Ghost" picks up shortly after the earth-shattering events of "Power" as Tariq St. Patrick grapples with a new world order: his father dead and his mother, Tasha, facing charges for the murder her son committed. Not to mention the academic rigors of the Ivy League university Tariq is attending to earn his inheritance.

Truly on his own for the first time in his life, Tariq is forced to split his time between school and hustling to pay for Davis MacLean, the fame-hungry defense lawyer who is Tasha's only hope of getting out of jail and escaping prosecution by newly minted U.S. Attorney Cooper Saxe. With no better options, Tariq turns to the familiar drug game, entangling himself with a cutthroat family headed by Monet Stewart Tejada, that's been at it far longer than him.

As Tariq tries to balance his drug operation with his grades, love life, and family, he figures out that the only way to avoid the same fate his father met is to become him — only better.

Power Book II: Ghost stars Michael Rainey Jr. (Power, Lee Daniels' The Butler) as Tariq St. Patrick, Naturi Naughton (Power, Fame) as Tasha St. Patrick, Mary J. Blige (Mudbound, The Umbrella Academy) as Monet Stewart Tejada, Shane Johnson (Power, Behind Enemy Lines) as Cooper Saxe, Gianni Paolo (Ma, The Fosters) as Brayden Weston, Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Ray Donovan, Modern Love) as Tameika Washington, Daniel Bellomy (The Real MVP: The Wanda Durrant Story) as Ezekiel 'Zeke' Cross, Paige Hurd (The Oval, Hawaii Five-O) as Lauren Baldwin, and Cliff "Method Man" Smith (The Deuce, Garden State) as Davis Maclean.

The series also stars Melanie Liburd (This is Us, Gypsy) as Caridad 'Carrie' Milgram, Justin Marcel McManus (Star) as Jabari Reynolds, Woody McClain (The Bobby Brown Story, The New Edition Story) as Cane Tejada, Lovell Adams-Gray (Coroner, Slasher) as Dru Tejada, LaToya Tonodeo (The Oath) as Diana Tejada, and Sherri Saum (Locke & Key) as Paula Matarazzo, top investigator and right-hand of arrogant defense lawyer MacLean.

Power Book II: Ghost is executive produced by series creator and showrunner Courtney A. Kemp through her company End of Episode and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson through his G-Unit Film and Television. Also serving as executive producers on the series are Mark Canton through his Atmosphere Entertainment MM, End of Episode's Chris Selak and Danielle De Jesus, Shana Stein, and Bart Wenrich. Lionsgate TV produces the series for STARZ.

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