HBO Max's VAL-ZOD SUPERMAN series from Michael B. Jordan (TBD) 0

[Bosco685]

So now there are two projects in the works like this.

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Michael B. Jordan and his production company Outlier Society are developing their own Black Superman project for HBO Max that centers on the Val-Zod incarnation of the character, Collider has exclusively learned.

 

Sources say that Outlier Society has hired a writer who is currently working on the --script, though we were unable to ascertain their identity. Though it was initially unclear whether the Val-Zod project would be a movie or a limited series, sources have since reached out to clarify that as of right now, it is, in fact, being written as a limited series that Jordan will produce and possibly even star in, though he has yet to officially commit on the latter front.

 

As previously reported, J.J. Abrams and his company Bad Robot are set to produce a Black Superman movie for Warner Bros. that is expected to follow the Kal-El/Clark Kent version of the character. Though Clark Kent is traditionally depicted as white in the DC comics, the character will be played by a Black actor in the Bad Robot movie, which will likely be directed by a Black filmmaker, as Abrams is simply expected to produce. Author and cultural critic Ta-Nehisi Coates is already hard at work on the --script for that project.

 

Edited July 23, 2021 by Bosco685

[Bosco685]

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It looks like Michael B. Jordan is interested in Superman after all.

 

Jordan was the center of conversation earlier this year when it revealed that Ta-Nehisi Coates was writing a Superman film for J.J. Abrams and Warner Bros., and that the project would center on a Black version of the iconic DC Comics character. At the time, Jordan said that he wasn't looking to involve himself in the film, choosing instead to simply watch it come together as a fan. It now appears that Jordan is working on his own, separate Superman project for HBO Max.

 

According to a report from Collider, Jordan and his production company, Outlier Society, have hired a writer for a Superman title on HBO Max, which will either be a limited series. Unlike the project being written by Coates, this version will follow the character of Val-Zod, another Superman from the comics who has always been depicted as Black.

 

Sources close to Black Girl Nerds have indicated that Jordan wasn't interested in the Abrams/Coates project because that take will focus on Kal-El's. Superman. According to those sources, Jordan believed that simply casting a Black actor to play Kal-El would take away from a character like Val-Zod, who was created to be a Black character from the jump.

 

[Bosco685]

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EXCLUSIVE: Darnell Metayer & Josh Peters are set to write Val Zod, the HBO Max adaptation that Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society is producing for DC Entertainment and Warner Bros Television.

 

Val Zod is the story of another Kryptonian with powers who hails from the same doomed planet as Superman. The hero is Black, and he finds refuge on Earth 2. Like the original Man of Steel, he is sheltered on his adopted planet but eventually in the comics is pitted against a brainwashed Superman.

 

Metayer & Peters are prolific television and feature writers who broke onto the scene with their original pilot American Snow. Their project The Nola sold to Amazon with Sam Raimi directing. Their one-hour pilot, Hannibal, based on the life of the Carthaginian general Hannibal, they scripted for Scott Free and Endeavor Content. Apple preemptively bought it with Creed II helmer Steven J. Caple Jr attached to direct. They recently worked on Transformers: Rise of the Beasts for Paramount Pictures, set for release June 24, 2022. They’ve got an unexpected take on the iconic Earth-2 character’s origin story.

 

[theCapraAegagrus]

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They’ve got an unexpected take on the iconic Earth-2 character’s origin story.

Oh boy...

[kimik]

Good luck explaining the multi-verse in a simple manner.

[theCapraAegagrus]

On 10/27/2021 at 2:06 PM, kimik said:

Good luck explaining the multi-verse in a simple manner.

Building up to it (like the MCU), or starting off with it (ZSJL) would work, but shoehorning it in as an explanation for The Batman and this Superman project, etc just doesn't really make sense.

[Bosco685]