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DC's JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK films & TV by Bad Robot (TBD)
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Again, this is all so early, so it’s not specific yet if Bad Robot boss J.J. Abrams will be directing any of these projects. Minghella on the feature side will work with Warner Bros. President of DC-based Film Production Walter Hamada, while Stephenson will work in correlation with the Warner Bros. Television Group including President & Chief Content Officer Peter Roth, President Susan Rovner and President Brett Paul. Following the $1 billion-plus success of Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Abrams is currently meeting with potential showrunners for his HBO epic sci-fi fantasy drama Demimonde. The series follows a world’s battle against a monstrous, oppressive force. It’s the first series solely created by Abrams since the 2001 ABC drama Alias.

In Hamada we trust to avoid the pitfalls of Kathleen Kennedy to keep this straight.

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J.J. Abrams has set his first three series at HBO Max.

 

WarnerMedia's forthcoming streaming service has handed out straight-to-series orders for Duster, The Shining offshoot Overlook and what is described as a "major" show based on DC Comics characters in the Justice League Dark universe. All three shows will be exec produced by Abrams and his wife and Bad Robot partner, Katie McGrath, and Warner Bros. TV Group.

Duster will be co-written by Abrams and LaToya Morgan (The Walking Dead, Parenthood, Shameless), and was conceived by the former. It is set in the 1970s Southwest and revolves around the life of a gutsy getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate who goes from awful to wildly, stupidly, dangerously awful. 

 

Overlook, a spinoff of sorts based on the iconic hotel featured in Stephen King's 1977 novel and subsequent 1980 feature The Shining, features iconic characters from the horror thriller. It explores the untold, terrifying stories of the most famous haunted hotel in American fiction. The project reunites Bad Robot, King and Warner Bros. TV following Hulu anthology Castle Rock. The 10-episode drama, sources say, is being written and exec produced by Dustin Thomason and Scott Brown, who both previously worked on Castle Rock. The series has, per sources, also opened a mini writers room to get a jump on scripts during the industry-wide production shutdown.

 

The third show is an untitled drama based on characters in the so-called Justice League Dark universe, details of which are being kept under wraps. JLD debuted in DC Comics in 2011 and is a team featuring magic-based characters such as Zatanna, Deadman, Swamp Thing and John Constantine. Over the years, Warners has attempted to get a big-screen version of the ground with filmmaker such as Doug Liman and Guillermo Del Toro coming and going. Warners-backed streamer DC Universe also had a short-lived drama series based on Swamp Thing and produced a Constantine TV series for NBC with the character ultimately folded into The CW's Arrow-verse. (The fate of DC Universe as a home for scripted originals remains murky at best.)

 

"What an amazing start to our association with the wildly imaginative Bad Robot team under J.J. and Katie," said Kevin Reilly, chief content officer at HBO Max. "What could be better than an original J.J. idea and then Warner Bros. letting them loose on iconic IP from Stephen King and the DC Universe and to provide more must-have programming on HBO Max." 

 

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10 hours ago, comixry said:

10 HBO episodes may be just enough to introduce all the characters and hopefully any solo spinoffs.

Zatanna!....Hawkman #4 for the win!

Agree, instead of a 2.5-3 hour movie this is like getting a 10-hour film so everyone gets a chance in the spotlight.

Now, if they can get Guillermo del Toro to direct some of the episodes. That would be cool.

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Despite a considerate lack of news, Justice League Dark is still in the works for HBO Max. The DC TV landscape is changing massively in 2021 as The CW has mostly been the primary home for superhero TV shows based on the DC brand. Since 2012, The CW has been the destination for the Arrowverse that began with Arrow, a reimagination of the Green Arrow character. But the Oliver Queen-focused series ended up creating a massive shared universe that launched several spinoffs, including The Flash and many more.

 

For DC, the game has changed a lot in the last few years, with cable/streaming-based shows like Titans, Doom Patrol, Stargirl (before becoming a permanent series for The CW), and others being created. With the launch of HBO Max last year, it didn't take long until it was clear that the new service would become a big outlet for Warner Bros.' DC properties. After being developed as a film for several years, HBO Max is now bringing the Justice League Dark characters to life in a live-action series. But since the initial announcement that J.J. Abrams would be executive producing the series, very few updates have come out as of late. Despite a lack of announcements, Justice League Dark isn't going away.

 

In a recent edition of TVLine's Inside Line column, an inquiring fan sought some updates on the Justice League Dark project while wondering if Swamp Thing would be attached to the series. Since the DC Universe/The CW show isn't getting any new life, the fan wanted to know if Justice League Dark may have claims on Swamp Thing. While TVLine didn't respond about Swamp Thing's involvement, they confirmed that HBO Max is definitely still developing the team-up series. The last update about the show was that Justice League Dark and the Green Lantern series would be getting a movie-quality production. The project has, through HBO Max marketing, been lined-up to premiere sometime in 2021.

 

It's likely due to the global pandemic that things have slowed down Justice League Dark getting into production. It's key to consider that while Justice League Dark is definitely happening, it hasn't yet gotten an official series pick-up as Green Lantern did in late 2020. But given that Abrams has a major deal with Warner Bros. through his production company Bad Robot, some updates may be coming in the next few months. Early reports indicated that Abrams would be creating a Justice League Dark universe that would consist of TV shows and films focused on the members. With a big commitment like that, it makes sense why HBO Max hasn't officially ordered the ensemble drama to series yet.

 

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J.J. Abrams’ Demimonde, the first show the prolific producer has written since Fringe in 2008, is on the bubble at HBO as sources say Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is frustrated by the lack of output from Bad Robot’s $250 million overall deal.

 

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the budget for HBO’s Demimonde — which has been in the works since 2018 — is a source of contention as Abrams’ Bad Robot is eyeing a spend that’s north of $200 million. By comparison, the budget for HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon is less than $200 million.

 

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Variety revealed in a recent report that J.J. Abrams' Justice League Dark series for HBO Max is being developed as an "Avengers-style show" from Bad Robot. Abrams and Bad Robot have long been reported to be developing Justice League Dark as a franchise for HBO Max with spin-offs for Constantine and Madame Xanadu.

 

According to the article, Constantine and Madame Xanadu remain in active development, with the former having scouted locations with plans to start shooting in early 2023. The promising development updates follow HBO Max's cancellation of Batgirl and many other DC projects under the new Warner Bros. Discovery regime.

 

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