The following DC TV sequence — and Superman spinoff — is about.
HBO Max simply introduced that they’re about to begin manufacturing on a present known as The Folks v. Gorilla Grodd. Based mostly on their description of the sequence, which is an eight-episode present, it feels like a two-hander for Skyler Gisondo’s Jimmy Olsen and Gorilla Grodd, the hyperintelligent ape who has traditionally been one of many Justice League’s most persistent antagonists in DC Comics. On the present, Grodd might be performed by Jimmy Tatro.
HBO Max describes the sequence this manner:
A superintelligent ape is convicted of murdering his father, the King of Gorilla Metropolis. In an eight-part “true” crime docuseries, the Each day Planet’s Jimmy Olsen reopens the case, investigating whether or not Gorilla Grodd was wrongly convicted in one in all Metropolis’ most well-known homicide trials.
Along with Gisondo reprising his position from James Gunn’s 2025 movie of Superman, The Folks v. Gorilla Grodd will even characteristic a number of different members of the Each day Planet employees from that movie, together with Steve Lombard (Beck Bennett), Cat Grant (Mikaela Hoover), and Perry White (Wendell Pierce).
The present was introduced with this graphic, a fake press launch from the Each day Planet that claims the present will discover “Metropolis’ most notorious homicide trial” whereas revealing a “lesser-seen aspect” of Grodd through Olsen and his “unprecedented entry” to him at “Stryker’s Island Pentitentiary.”
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DC Studios is at present releasing their newest live-action TV sequence set throughout the new DC Universe, Lanterns, each Sunday night time on HBO Max. That follows the second season of Peacemaker. DC has additionally introduced a Booster Gold TV present, though growth on that one has reportedly been very sluggish. And Gisondo will even play Jimmy Olsen in Gunn’s upcoming Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow. That movie is due in theaters on July 9, 2027.
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