Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, the creators of the Peabody Award-winning mockumentary series “American Vandal,” are set to serve as showrunners on the TV spin-off of James Gunn’s “Superman” currently in the works.
The pair will write and executive produce the project that will be led by Skyler Gisondo, the “Santa Clarita Diet” actor reprising his role of Daily Planet photographer and surprising ladies’ man Jimmy Olsen.
According to THR, the story centers on Olsen, as well as other Daily Planet reporters (minus Lois Lane and Clark Kent), who tackle cases involving super-powered villains.
The first season will put the spotlight on Gorilla Grodd, the super-intelligent evil ape who rules a secret African city named Gorilla City. The character is a major antagonist for The Flash in the comics.
Though no other cast has been officially announced, it would hardly be surprising if other reporter characters like Beck Bennett’s Steve Lombard, Mikaela Hoover’s Cat Grant, Christopher McDonald’s Ron Troupe and possibly Wendell Pierce’s editor Perry White would also appear.
Gunn and his DC Studios co-chief Peter Safran will executive produce the series. More recently, Perrault wrote the R-rated talking dog movie “Strays” while Yacenda directed episodes of Hulu’s “Chad Powers”.
The news comes as a new report at Forbes indicates the “Superman” film has so far made $100 million in profit, and is well on its way to earn $150 million in all for the studio. That would fit with trade reports that suggested the film was headed for a $125 million profit.
