
The highly-anticipated trailer for the television version of Naomi Alderman’s The Power has been released by Prime Video.
The 2016 dystopian thriller imagines a future where young women get the ability to randomly electrocute anybody they want.
Toni Collette, of Little Miss Sunshine fame, portrays the ambitious Margot Cleary, the mayor of Seattle and a politician whose power is awakened by her teenage daughter Jocelyn.
Instead of a feminist paradise, Margot finds herself navigating cults, armies, and riots as males become afraid of women throughout the world.
As “the Power grows from a tingling in teens’ collarbones to a full reversal of the power balance of the planet,” the book contains a cast of individuals from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe.
Toni admitted that she hadn’t read the plot of the show before being cast in it.


‘I often don’t read the source material—I like to focus on the scripts that I’m given, because that’s what’s chosen to be focused on,’ she told Vanity Fair.
Toni revealed to the magazine that she was brought in to replace the This Is 40 actor Leslie Mann and re-film the sequences after Mann was originally slated in the starring role.
‘I shot all of my scenes over a period of five weeks for the entire series,’ she added.



‘Playing a politician, those people talk a lot, and I had not much time [to prep]. So for a lot of it, I felt like I was hanging off the cliff face, wondering if I was going to survive. It’s been a wild adventure.’
Toni also admitted she would be keen for the power to exist in real life, saying: ‘Who wouldn’t want it!’
‘It’s almost like a metaphor for the power that is actually inherent in all of us. It’s just that we’re born into a world that doesn’t encourage it in women.
‘To be a part of telling a story that allows women to feel strong in that way is just beautiful.’



In addition to Toni, John Leguizamo plays Rob Lopez, and Auli’i Cravalho, the voice of Disney’s Moana, plays Rob’s daughter Jos Cleary-Lopez.
Meanwhile, Toheeb Jimoh plays the lead role of Tunde Ojo, while Josh Charles plays Daniel Dandon, Eddie Marsan plays Bernie Monke, Ria Zmitrowicz plays Roxy Monke, Zrinka Cvitei plays Tatiana Moskalev, and Halle Bush plays Allie Montgomery.
‘The world of The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature,’ the official plot of Alderman’s book reads, ‘Suddenly, and without warning, all teenage girls in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. It’s hereditary, it’s inbuilt, and it can’t be taken away from them.
‘Coming alive to the thrill of pure power: the ability to hurt or even kill by releasing electrical jolts from their fingertips, they rapidly learn they can awaken the Power in older women.
‘Soon enough nearly every woman in the world can do it. And then everything is different.’
The Power premieres on Prime Video in March.