Kapow!: Comic Book TV

[Sandman87]

On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 7:28 AM, BetterButter said:

Judge Dredd: Mega-City One set to dispense TV justice

Comic book based shows usually disappoint me greatly, but this is one I'd like to see. But they have to make sure to get an actor who has the right chin to play Dredd (the rest of the face doesn't matter.)

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Umbrella Academy Live-Action TV Series Set at Netflix:

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The streaming giant has handed out a 10-episode straight-to-series order for the adaptation of Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) and Gabriel Ba's beloved graphic novel. The drama will launch on the streaming service in 2018. ...

Steve Blackman (Fargo, Netflix's Altered Carbon) serves as showrunner and executive produces alongside Bluegrass Television, Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg from Dark Horse Entertainment. Way will co-exec produce. The pilot script was adapted from the comic book series by Jeremy Slater (The Exorcist).

[Fukui San]

Umbrella Academy live action series will be a fascinating trainwreck. It's just so gloriously weird and stylized. I don't see it translating well. It might turn into something different and OK, like how Lucifer only vaguely resembles the source series.

[BetterButter]

'Watchmen' Moving Forward at HBO With Pilot Order

[BetterButter]

Amazon’s ‘The Boys’ Casts a Team of Lowdown, Dirty Superheroes

[Trini]

Hey, maybe this will get made after all! Cast for FX's Y: The Last Man.

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'Green Lantern & ‘Strange Adventures’: Greg Berlanti And DC Go Cosmic For HBO Max'

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Television super-producer Greg Berlanti’s ever-expanding screen interpretation of the DC Comics Universe is going cosmic with two new series for the HBO Max streaming platform: Strange Adventures and a Green Lantern-inspired show.

“Both of these original DC properties we’ll be creating for HBO Max will be unlike anything seen on television,” said Berlanti, who announced both projects Tuesday at the HBO Max WarnerMedia Day presentation. “An anthology series of cautionary tales set in a world where superpowers exist, and, in what promises to be our biggest DC show ever made, we will be going to space with a Green Lantern television series, but I can’t reveal any more about that just yet.”

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The HBO Max series is described with terms that seem to evoke a Twilight Zone storytelling approach to the DC Universe. as a one-hour drama and superhero anthology series that will “feature characters from across the DC canon” and “explore close-ended morality tales about the intersecting lives of mortals and superhumans.”

Strange Adventures is produced by Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros Television. Berlanti, Sarah Schechter (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Titans, Doom Patrol), and showrunner-writer John Stephens (Gotham, Gossip Girl) serve as executive producers. Charlie Huston (Powers, Gotham) is a co-executive producer, Brigitte Hales (Once Upon a Time) is a producer, and Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child, The Twilight Zone) is a consulting producer.

The Green Lantern-inspired series, based on the characters from the iconic DC comic, will come from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros Television.