You never know what to expect next from James Gunn, the current head of Warner Bros‘ DC Cinematic Universe. It’s become clear he is NOT going to repeat the same straightforward path that Disney took with Marvel – each announcement has been wildly different than the one before: a Superman “sequel” that isn’t one, a Robin movie with puppets, an R-rated Clayface horror film. And this, this is surely something no one’s tried: DC Crime, a “true crime” documentary series hosted by the Daily Planet’s Jimmy Olsen.
Variety broke the story. Superman’s co-worker and pal will be portrayed by Skyler Gisondo, the same actor who played him in lat summer’s Superman movie. And Olsen’s subject for the first season will be the notorious criminal, supervillain and superintelligent primate, Gorilla Grodd.
Being a giant gorilla used to bar you from appearing in Hollywood adaptions of comic books, as there was no way to not make it look silly, and “comics are serious business.” But as men in monkey suits gave way to CGI, a path forward for Grodd became possible, and he started appearing in more DC adaptions both animated and live-action. We’ve technically already seen him in the Gunnverse as he showed up briefly in an episode of Creature Commandos.
So who would you get for such a project? Gunn’s on the ball; he dialed up Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda as head writers, producers and showrunners. They are best known for creating American Vandal, a parody of true crime documentaries — which DC Crime looks like it aims to be.
There is no word on when we could be seeing DC Crime appear on HBO Max, its most likely intended place. But we haven’t seen most of Gunn’s announced projects yet. These things take a while from announcement to final edit.
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