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V for Vendetta and DC Crime featuring Jimmy Olsen series in the works for HBO

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There’s two stories out there concerning television series based on DC properties.

A television series based on V for Vendetta is in the works for HBO. Pete Jackson is attached to write the adaption with James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios set to executive produce it. Also executive producing is Ben Stephenson via Poison Pen and Leanne Klein of Wall to Wall Media, which is part of Warner Bros. Television Studios UK. Warner Bros. Television will produce.

V for Vendetta was written by Alan Moore with art by David Lloyd and originally released in 1982 in the British anthology Warrior before being published by DC in 1988.

The story is set in a Britain dystopia where a fascist government has taken over. An anarchist known as V who wears a Guy Fawkes mask attempts to topple the government.

The series was made into a film which was released in 2005 starring Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman. There’s been previous attempts to adapt the comic to television and the television series Pennyworth was to be a prequel to V for Vendetta but that was never fleshed out before the series was canceled according to showrunners Danny Cannon and Bruno Heller with the series going into the British Civil War that would give rise to the fascist government.

While it might seem like an odd choice for a television series, Watchmen which was also created by Moore with Dave Gibbons got a television series that was praised upon its release.

There’s also news that DC Studios is working on another series, DC Crime, that would be a “true crime docuseries” hosted by Jimmy Olsen played by Skyler Gisondo. The first season would focus on Gorilla Grodd, mostly known as a villain of The Flash.

Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault would serve as writers, executive producers, and showrunners on the series. James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios would also executive produce, with DC Studios’ Galen Vaisman overseeing production.

(via Variety and Variety)

Kodansha launches Kodansha Studios to Adapt Manga into Live-Action

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Chloé Zhao and Nicolas Gonda have opened up Kodansha Studios, a studio focused on creating live-action movies and television series based on manga.

Projects will be based on Kodansha’s library and will feature numerous genres including romance, drama, horror, action, and fantasy. The plan is to connect manga authors with filmmakers to develop and package adaptations.

Nomadland filmmaker Zhao will serve as Chief Creative Officer, while Gonda is President and Chief Operations Officer. Zhao and Gonda’s existing production company Book of Shadows, founded in 2022, will continue to operate as a separate entity.

Kodansha was founded in 1909 and publishes in over 40 countries and features more than 4,000 titles.

Something is Killing the Children Lands at Blumhouse for Film and Animation

BOOM! Studios and Blumhouse Productions have announced that Blumhouse has secured the film and television rights to James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera’s record breaking, award-winning, and global best-selling series Something is Killing the Children. Set in a world where children can see monsters, but adults cannot, Something is Killing the Children tells the story of Erica Slaughter, a monster hunter from a mysterious organization more concerned with keeping the secret of monsters from the world than saving their victims.

Blumhouse is set to simultaneously develop the property as a live-action feature film and an adult animated television series, with the animated series to be adapted and executively produced by co-creator James Tynion IV, with fellow co-creator Werther Dell’Edera serving as Co-Executive Producer and visual development consultant.

BOOM! Studios’ Stephen Christy, along with James Tynion IV will produce the feature film, with Adam Yoelin and Mette Norkjaer serving as Executive Producers. Werther Dell’Edera will co-produce.

The overwhelming success has allowed BOOM! Studios to commit to at least a 100-issue run for Something is Killing the Children, and at New York Comic-Con in 2025 it was announced that a new event series Fall of the House of Slaughter leading up to the release of the landmark 50th issue in 2026.

Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1

Get a First Look a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4

In the upcoming fourth season, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise—led by Captain Christopher Pike—embarks on a series of thrilling and emotional adventures across the stars. As they journey to strange new worlds, they will battle inner demons and external threats, encounter colorful new characters, reunite with familiar faces and confront terrifying aliens. Through it all, they strive to embrace a bright, hopeful future.

NYCC 2025: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s Trailer is Revealed

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premieres January 15, exclusively on Paramount+.

This new chapter follows a fresh class of cadets as they train under the watchful, demanding eyes of Starfleet’s finest. Together, they’ll face the highs and lows of academy life: forging unbreakable friendships, clashing in explosive rivalries, experiencing first loves, and stepping into their destiny as the next generation of Starfleet officers. When a mysterious new enemy threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself, these cadets must rise to the challenge or risk losing everything they’ve just begun to fight for.

Starring Sandro Rosta, Karim Diané, Kerrice Brooks, George Hawkins, Bella Shepard, and Zoë Steiner, as well as Holly Hunter, who plays the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy. Additional cast members include Tig Notaro and Robert Picardo, reprising their roles as Jett Reno and The Doctor, and guest stars Oded Fehr and Mary Wiseman, reprising their roles as Admiral Vance and Sylvia Tilly, as well as recurring guest stars Gina Yashere and Paul Giamatti.

NYCC 2025: VisionQuest Concludes the Trilogy that Started with WandaVision

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WandaVision. Agatha All Along. Now, VisionQuest. The trilogy’s finale was announced at New York Comic Con 2025 during the “Marvel Animation and Marvel Television” panel.

The Marvel Television series features Henry Lewis as D.U.M.-E, Jonathan Sayer as U, James D’Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S., Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y., Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H., and Ruaridh Mollica as Thomas Shepherd. James Spader returns as Ultron, reprising his role from 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and of course Paul Bettany as Vision.

White Vision has all his memories but is having difficulty connecting to them, thus begins his journey, an attempt to do that and find out who he was.

VisionQuest comes to Disney in 2026.

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