Skyler Gisondo, who played Jimmy Olsen in James Gunn’s Superman, is set to reprise his role in a game-changing new series from the creator of American Vandal. Variety reports that HBO Max is developing a (fake) true crime documentary series set in the DC Universe, titled DC Crime.
The first season of DC Crimes will center around Gorilla Grodd, which could hint at a planned appearance for The Flash, but it’s equally likely that the story will center around Grodd’s political battle with Solovar in Gorilla City.
DC Crimes is the second DC TV series announced today, following news that HBO will begin adapting Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta.
Rumors of a Jimmy Olsen TV series have been floating around since Superman was released this summer, but the conventional wisdom was that such a series would be a version of Superman’s sidekick Jimmy Olsen. The true crime angle of taking Jimmy out of his photojournalist role and making him an on-air talent is an interesting idea, and one that makes a lot of sense considering how canonically fascinating he is in the DC Universe. The true-crime format also opens up any number of possibilities, perhaps for “experts” from around the DC Universe to make cameos to give their opinions on the crime, or for other members of the Daily Planet staff to provide background.
Despite his relative youth, Guisondo is a Hollywood veteran at this point, having started acting as a child actor in 2003. He has appeared in both feature films and television series, including “Night at the Museum: Secrets of the Tomb,” the “Amazing Spider-Man” movies, and the role of B-Dawg in the “Air Buddies” movies. Gisondo also had notable roles on “The Bill Engvall Show” and “Psycho.” In the latter, he was one of three young actors to play Sean Spencer in flashbacks. Interestingly, another “Young Sean”, Liam James, co-starred with Superman’s Maria Gabriela de Faria in Deadly Class.
Grodd and Solovar’s characters made their live-action debut on The CW’s long-running superhero drama The Flash. Grodd also appeared in an episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, in which he (infamously) attempts to murder college student Barack Obama, in what John Oliver called “the best 10 seconds of television I’ve ever seen.”
Gunn and DC co-chief Peter Safran will serve as executive producers on the series at DC Studios, with American Vandal’s Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault serving as writers and showrunners. According to Variety, DC Studios’ Galen Weisman will oversee the project for DC Studios and Warner Bros. Television.
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