Alan Tudyk and Danny Pudi Join DC Comics' Office Comedy POWERLESS

Just yesterday, we learned that Vanessa Hudgens would be playing one of the lead roles in NBC's new comedy Powerless, which is set in the DC Comics universe. Now Deadline brings word that three more actors have joined the ensemble: Firefly alum Alan Tudyk, Community's Danny Pudi, and A to Z's Christina Kirk.

For those who haven't heard, the show is set at one of the worst insurance companies in America as its regular employees deal with the fallout of damage wreaked by superheroes and villains. Hudgens is playing Emily Locke, a claims adjuster who enjoys her job helping people but becomes frustrated at "the disruptive antics" of the heroes in her city. As for the new additions to the cast, here's the breakdown of who they'll be playing:

Pudi plays Teddy, Emily’s best friend at work and her trusted confidante. He spends his days creating time-wasting pranks as a way to make their office the “least Super place on earth,” just a little less “unsuper.” Tudyk is Del, Emily’s new boss in the claims department. Del has just been promoted — not through any merit of his own, but because he’s the owner’s son. A self-proclaimed “rich, over-educated globetrotting wastrel,” Del is a power-mad disastrous dictator of a boss. Kirk is Jackie, a fan of Super Heroes who has plastered her office cubicle with beefcake shots of super guys. New claims department boss Del makes her his personal assistant, and she begins buckling under his unreasonable and impossible demands.

Pudi, of course, already played a non-superpowered human in a Marvel movie when he showed up briefly in Captain America: The Winter Soldier:

Most people probably don't know the TV series, Community, which Winter Soldier directors Anthony and Joe Russo regularly direct. Those who do will probably know one of the main characters, Abed Nadir, played by Danny Pudi.

I think this show has a lot of potential, and filling the cast with likable actors is definitely a step in the right direction. Ben Queen is the creator and showrunner, and Michael Patrick Jann is going to executive produce the show and direct the pilot. We'll keep you posted about whether or not NBC ends up liking the pilot and decides to pick up the show for a full season.