*Beep beepity beep-beep, beepity beep-beep* BREAKING NEWS: JIMMY OLSEN IS GETTING HIS OWN HBO SERIES! Yes, following his introduction in James Gunn's DC Studios blockbuster Superman this summer, Skyler Gisondo's press photographer, ladies' man, and all-round fan-favourite Jimmy Olsen is getting the spin-off treatment — with a nifty true-crime twist. Per THR's reporting, Gunn and DC Studios co-head Peter Safran have tapped Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda — co-creators of mockumentary show American Vandal — to write and showrun DC Crime, a fictional true-crime series revolving around Olsen and his Daily Planet colleagues, at HBO.
As THR reveal, the proposal for the in-development show is to bring American Vandal's mockumentary format to the DC Universe, with Jimmy the focal point as he and his co-workers tackle cases involving various comic book supervillains. Of particular interest in the first series would be brainiac (but not Brainiac) evil ape Gorilla Grodd, a regular fixture among Supes' rogues gallery who did make a cameo, albeit a non-speaking one, in Gunn's animated Creature Commandos. The choice of first villain focus tallies with Superman's disinterest in simply wheeling out the big guns as Gunn and Safran's new-look DCU takes shape, and it's worth noting that THR do mention how DC Crime will focus on the broader Daily Planet newsroom, with David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan's Clark Kent and Lois Lane not currently expected to feature.
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DC Crime is the latest small-screen project added to DC Studios' ever-growing slate, and joins the Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre-led Lanterns as well as the also newly announced V For Vendetta in the studios' growing pipeline. And with Clayface currently in production, The Batman Part II finally heading that way too, and Supergirl in the can already and readying for release next summer on the big screen side of things, expect plenty more dispatches hot off the press of the DC newsroom in the coming weeks and months. Heck, maybe we need to get some of those folks from the Daily Planet transferred to the Empire newsroom! Anyone got Jimmy Olsen's number? Our toes are perfectly normal… mostly.