In addition, HBO Max and Bad Robot have teamed on the series “Overlook,” inspired by Stephen King’s “The Shining,” and “Duster,” an ingenious drama co-written by LaToya Morgan and Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams. All three shows are going to be executive produced by J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot’s head of television, Ben Stephenson. Rachel Rusch Rich, Bad Robot’s executive vice-chairman of television, will function as a co-executive producer. Warner Bros. Television will produce all three shows, while Warner Bros. International Television Distribution is going to be the worldwide distributor for all three shows.
The three shows are the primary television projects found out at HBO Max under Abrams’ and Bad Robot’s mega-deal with WarnerMedia that was unveiled in September 2019.
“What a tremendous start to our association with the wildly imaginative Bad Robot team under J.J. and Katie [McGrath],” said Kevin Reilly, a chief content officer of HBO Max and president of TNT, TBS, and truTV. “What might be better than an ingenious J.J. idea then Warner Bros. letting them loose on iconic I.P. from Stephen King and therefore the DC Universe and to supply more must-have programming on HBO Max.”
No further details are currently available about the “Justice League Dark” series, including which characters would be featured within the show. In DC Comics, the team consists of members like John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Madame Xanadu, Deadman, Doctor Mist, and lots of others.
The team was first introduced in 2011, with a live-action feature supported the comic books that are within the works for years. it had been last reported in January that DC and Warner Bros. were plotting both film and tv projects within the “Justice League Dark” universe. An animated film was released in 2017, with Keanu Reeves having played Constantine during a standalone film in 2005.
“Overlook” is described as a horror-thriller series that explores the untold stories of the Overlook Hotel, the foremost famous haunted hotel in American fiction. The project reunites Bad Robot, King and WBTV, who previously collaborated on the psychological-horror series “Castle Rock” for Hulu.
Set within the 1970’s Southwest, “Duster” explores the life of a getaway driver for a growing syndicate. Morgan is currently a writer on “The Walking Dead”. Previously, she was a co-executive producer and writer of AMC’s “Into the Badlands” and “TURN: Washington’s Spies,” and was a writer for NBC’s “Parenthood” and Showtime’s “Shameless.”
Other current Bad Robot shows include “Westworld” and therefore the upcoming “Demimonde” and “Lovecraft Country” at HBO. the corporate is additionally producing “Lisey’s Story,” “Little Voice,” and “My Glory Was I Had Such Friends” at Apple.
The “Justice League Dark” series is that the latest DC project found out at HBO Max instead of the standalone streamer DC Universe. Others include an Aquaman animated miniseries, with Greg Berlanti executive producing two others — an untitled Green Lantern series and a series adaptation of “Strange Adventures.”
It was announced last July that the DCU show “Doom Patrol” had been renewed for a second season, but that season would be available to stream on both DCU and HBO Max, with Season 1 also becoming available on HBO Max upon the Season 2 premiere. Likewise, episodes of the upcoming DCU show “Stargirl” will air on The CW the day after their streaming debut and can even be available on The CW’s digital platforms. it had been originally set to start out airing May 11 but was pushed back every week thanks to programming shifts caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
