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HBO Max's STRANGE ADVENTURES series (TBD)
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Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Titans, Doom Patrol) announced today at the HBO Max WarnerMedia Day two new projects in the works exclusively for the new streaming platform—Strange Adventures and a Green Lantern inspired series.

 

“Both of these original DC properties we’ll be creating for HBO Max will be unlike anything seen on television,” said Greg Berlanti. “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.”

 

Strange Adventures, a DC Super Hero anthology series executive produced by Berlanti, will feature characters from across the DC canon. This one-hour drama series will explore close-ended morality tales about the intersecting lives of mortals and superhumans. Strange Adventures is based on the characters from DC and 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.

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I'd love this to feature Golden Age Starman, and Adam Strange. Both have ties to the book, and I think they'd be a good odd duo. Wouldn't happen with a show already starring Stargirl, but a guy can dream. After all, iirc he still hasn't been featured in any of the live-action media. 

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After no updates about Strange Adventures for years, Smith has revealed some surprising details. In the latest edition of Smith's Hollywood Babble-On, the filmmaker revealed that he, along with Supergirl writer Eric Carrasco, had been working on an episode together of Strange Adventures. Their episode would have focused on Jimmy Olsen and Perry White being taken by Bizarro to Bizarro World, with Smith set to direct the Strange Adventures installment. However, amid Warner Bros. Discovery's cancellations, Smith confirmed that Strange Adventures has been canceled and will not be going forward on HBO Max, sharing the following:

 

"It feels like what was once, to me, a promising future of we are going to see a bunch of DC stuff on HBO Max; MORE DC stuff than we would see theatrically, including mess like Strange Adventures...gone! All of it is just f---king gone now. I got a call the other day from Eric before all of this story broke and he was just like "Strange Adventures is officially dead," and I was like "What the f--k, are you serious?!" I know we haven't heard from them for a while, but I guess this goes in parts with the new moves with David Zaslav. But God lord, I thought Strange Adventures being a causality kind of made sense to me. Nobody necessarily knows these characters, it sounded like an expensive show."

 

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I need to finish reading that. I've got the single issues and the hardcover and I still haven't. This should nudge me. Mr Terrific is one of my favourite characters too, I just believe he works best with the JSA, Mr Gunn. 

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On 10/2/2023 at 12:12 AM, Cat said:

I need to finish reading that. I've got the single issues and the hardcover and I still haven't. This should nudge me. Mr Terrific is one of my favourite characters too, I just believe he works best with the JSA, Mr Gunn. 

I started reading this last night, seeing the hardcover and the single issues have been sitting around since 2020/2021. Wow is all I can say. It's good. An amazing read so far, with one proviso, there is a VERY easy and obvious answer to the whole story. If they go with that, it's trash. But surely they wouldn't be that unoriginal... right? Not the writer of Heroes In Crisis? 

But what I've read has really opened my mind to the junk I've been reading lately (not junk, disposable pop culture) and you'd better believe if this sticks the landing I'm going to our esteemed experts here asking for any recommendations for books like this from our esteemed experts. 

It's brilliant so far. 

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On 10/5/2023 at 7:43 AM, Cat said:

I started reading this last night, seeing the hardcover and the single issues have been sitting around since 2020/2021. Wow is all I can say. It's good. An amazing read so far, with one proviso, there is a VERY easy and obvious answer to the whole story. If they go with that, it's trash. But surely they wouldn't be that unoriginal... right? Not the writer of Heroes In Crisis? 

But what I've read has really opened my mind to the junk I've been reading lately (not junk, disposable pop culture) and you'd better believe if this sticks the landing I'm going to our esteemed experts here asking for any recommendations for books like this from our esteemed experts. 

It's brilliant so far. 

Okay, that book was easily the best book I've read all year, and the best media I've consumed in a long, long time (that may be more of an indictment of me than the content). It's a twisted series that can't help but be charming, warm, and inviting, and have you rooting for the heroes, even as you know something is very off-kilter. 

This would make a terrific project for the big screen but I'd highly encourage everyone to go ahead and read it first. This is a book crying out to be read. You'll be glad you did. 

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