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EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Tatro will officially bring to life DC’s Gorilla Grodd successful nan upcoming Superman spinoff bid from HBO Max centering connected Jimmy Olsen, sources show Deadline. While nan casting will adhd to nan buzz astir nan project, HBO has yet to officially greenlight nan series.
As Deadline reported past week, Tatro was successful talks to subordinate nan DC Universe arsenic nan hyper-intelligent telepathic ape who has sought to norm some nan simian and quality worlds, though nan Flash has often thwarted his plans.
The spinoff is billed arsenic being akin to a true-crime docuseries pinch Jimmy Olsen (played by Skyler Gisondo successful nan summertime blockbuster directed by James Gunn) from Superman hosting. Season 1 reportedly will beryllium centered astir DC bad feline Gorilla Grodd, who often wrestles The Flash.
Grodd had psychic powers and different skills aft his brushwood pinch an alien spaceship. The characteristic was created successful 1959 by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, and was astir precocious featured arsenic portion of DC’s Arrowverse.
HBO Max declined to remark for this story.
The Jimmy Olsen bid comes from Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, creators of Netflix’s American Vandal series, a true-crime satire bid that ran from 2017-18. They’ll write, executive nutrient and showrun nan series. DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran are EPs, pinch Galen Vaisman overseeing production. Warner Bros. Television is besides producing.
Tatro’s casting arrives astatine a engaged clip successful his career. The SoCal autochthonal is presently promoting his adjacent project, nan Will Ferrell Netflix play drama bid The Hawk. His bid regular characteristic Lance is nan boy of Ferrell’s titular character, who is an unthinkable pro golfer successful his ain right. His anterior TV credits besides see ABC’s Home Economics, successful which he was a main formed personnel and he directed 1 episode, and Netflix’s mockumentary bid American Vandal.
Up adjacent connected nan large screen, Tatro will again prima other Ferrell successful nan Nicholas Stoller-directed Judgment Day. Before, Tatro starred successful Kevin Williamson’s Scream 7, Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, and successful Amazon’s You’re Cordially Invited, besides pinch Ferrell, and 22 Jump Street, to sanction a few.
