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Find out about the upcoming live-action Static Shock
show. While Marvel is basking in the glory of it’s upcoming Netflix
series based on Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and The
Defenders, DC has launched their own short-form digital platform. Variety
reports that the newly named “Blue Ribbon Content” division will launch
original programs and new shows from Warner Bros. Entertainment’s
“collection of intellectual property.” One of the first properties
announced is a live-action series based on co-creator Dwayne McDuffie’s
Milestone comic character Static (also known as Shock Shock). Virgil Hawkins is a
teenager who gets electrical powers in an accident and becomes a
superhero while fighting the struggles of all young black men. It
sounds a lot like Spider-Man, but very different. “Like any other
awkward 15 year-old, Virgil Hawkins worries about pocket money, getting
beaten up, and drugs.” Dwayne McDuffie said, “But recently, he’s had
even more on his mind: stuff like his powers, his secret identity, and
drugs. Because, when innocents are in danger, and Virgil can slip away
from class, the geeky youth becomes Static, the dashing, adventurous
superhero!” While the character has a successful animated series, named
Static Shock, this is the first time he’s appeared in live-action.Here’s how Warner Bros describes the Static Shock series:
Writer/producer/director Reginald
Hudlin (Best Picture Oscar® nominee for producing Django Unchained,
writer/director of House Party, executive producer/director of
acclaimed TV series The Bernie Mac Show) leads the creative team behind
a live-action adaptation of Static Shock, featuring the
African-American super hero Static, aka Virgil Ovid Hawkins. Static
Shock is based on the Static comic co-created by the late Dwayne
McDuffie with co-writer Robert L. Washington III and artist John Paul
Leon, which was originally published by the DC Comics imprint Milestone
Comics and, later, by DC Comics. Milestone Media co-founder/comic book
artist/TV producer Denys Cowan (the original Static Shock animated
series) is collaborating with Hudlin on the new Static Shock. The
aforementioned animated version of Static Shock previously aired for
four seasons during the Saturday morning Kids’ WB! programming block on
The WB Network from 2000–2004..
Here are some other highlights from the press release:Bruce Timm is coming back with a new Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles series:
This animated shortform series from Bruce Timm
and Alan Burnett (producers of the legendary Batman: The Animated
Series) will debut on Machinima in 2015. The series is based on Justice
League: Gods & Monsters, an original animated film executive
produced by Timm and co-produced by Burnett that will be released by
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment later in 2015. Chronicles explores a
newly conceived reality in the DC Universe where Justice League members
Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are much darker versions of the Super
Heroes that people think they know.
There are also a couple of other projects in the works including an untitled Mortal Kombat series:
The next generation in
the Mortal Kombat franchise to be released in association with the
upcoming “Mortal Kombat X” videogame, slated to bow April 14, 2015. Blue
Ribbon Content and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment are teaming
on the series, which will showcase some of the franchise’s
popular characters and introduce a new generation of fighters.
Another surprising announcement is a series based on the old Gremlins knock-off Critters, which I always enjoyed.
Series based on the New Line Cinema
cult classic movie franchise, with a new batch of alien pests
descending on the planet. Written by Michael Jelenic and Aaron Horvath
(“Teen Titans Go!”).
There’s also a virtual-reality entertainment experience called “Batman:
The Animated Series Experience” where people can explore the Batcave.
This is very exciting news and I’m sure if McDuffie were alive today
he’d be overjoyed to see how his character is coming to life.
Are you looking forward to a live-action Static Shock series? What about Mortal Kombat and Justice League? Do you remember Critters? What DC character would you like to have they’re own series?
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Which DC character? Any of them at this point. Be curious how well it will do on the WB when Marvel is placing theirs on NetFlix.
Bruce Timm!!! I want a shot at going in the Batcave, I don't care if it is virtual.
This is awesome. And your brief description of the character also makes it clear that Static was the original version of the new Ms. Marvel. Maybe he'll get another comic book out of it, too. I still want to read the art-heavy Scott McDaniel one (I'm a big McDaniel fan), but maybe that one was presented the wrong way after all. This is a character who deserves to be exactly what he is, a role that Ms. Marvel and the Miles Morales Spider-Man have usurped in his absence.
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