>Lois Lane and supervillain Lex Luthor are getting their own live-action series. Warner Bros. upcoming DC-Branded direct-to-consumer digital platform has given 13-episode straight-to-series order to Metropolis, a new drama series from Gotham executive producers John Stephens and Danny Cannon and Warner Bros. TV. It will go into production later this year for premiere on the service in 2019.
>Set in the wondrous and awe-inspiring City of Tomorrow before the arrival of Superman, Metropolis, based on the DC characters, follows Lois Lane and Lex Luthor as they investigate the world of fringe science and expose the city’s dark and bizarre secrets.
Why are there so many DC prequel AUs. Supergirl is doing fine so it can't be that they don't have the budget for actual superheroics.
William Price
>The project was previously under consideration at Fox, where it would have served as a companion to “Gotham,” the drama about Gotham City before the arrival of Batman. 200% mad
Julian Brooks
Gotham is fun, so I'll remain optimistic
Thomas Rodriguez
Cool
Parker Martinez
Gotham City Sirens when?. I mean if you aren't gonna use the property in movies then at least have the decency to use it for TV, besides it was made to be a TV Show. I'll accept even if it is in The CW
Charles Morgan
Can we just have a Superman show? Why does everything have to be a prequel?
Hudson Martin
>But its fun! That's subjective
Lincoln Ramirez
Krypton AND Metropolis? Really? Does Superman really need two prequel series that don't actually have Superman in them running at the same time?
Isaiah Murphy
Because they are saving the big name for movies since everything has to be a cinematic universe now
Angel Wood
Nooo... Whyyyy...
I hope it's as terrible as possible, and they make lois lane and lex luthor actually work together as partners for no reason and they have a dramatic falling out.
Evan Brooks
I’d rather see the return of Lois and Clark then continue to follow the DCEU.
Parker Moore
As long as Lois and Lex don't hook up (thank you Bruce Timm), I'm in.
So, considering it's the execs behind Gotham, is Gotham done after this season?
Carter Lee
Me too, and I say this as someone who loved JL enough to see it 3 times.
Gotham looked like it was going to be done last season, but here we are.
Liam Mitchell
so are opinions of things as a whole, numbnuts
Kayden Adams
Calling it now. After WW2, we're getting a Themyscira show.
Jacob Evans
Krypton might be okay, this just sounds terrible.
Joseph Williams
Krypton seemed dumb at first but once the revealed it is't strictly a prequel about sit no one asked for it seems a lot more interesting. It's actually a time travel sow about Adam Strange and hawkwoman going to Krypton to prevent Superman from being erased from time. It's been said to also partially be set in the present on Earth.
Thomas Cox
At least with Krypton they have to be creative and can’t just throw in random rogues other then maybe Doomsday, Brainiac, or Mongel.
Jack Barnes
So the DC website post has this link: pub.s6.exacttarget.com/3n2ilaj5d1a >Titans >Young Justice >Metropolis >Harley Quinn DC's got a Harley show in the works?
Jason Davis
Yes. It will be an animated series.
Angel Powell
Huh, really now I guess if it prints money, they'd be stupid to leave money on the table
Nathan Morales
I KNEW IT
I FUCKING KNEW IT
I JOKED AFTER SMALLVILLE THAT THEY'D MAKE A SHOW CALLED "KRYTPON"
THEN I JOKED AFTER KRYPTON THAT THEY'D MAKE A SHOW CALLED "METROPOLIS"
I FUCKING KNEW IT, Sup Forums. I FUCKING KNEW IT
Julian Roberts
What show will they do next?
Josiah Watson
the dude that took over Powerless is producing it. the one with the Papa Roach story.
Liam Cooper
Make another prediction
Nolan Rivera
>By submitting my email address and clicking SUBMIT, I certify that I am a resident of the United States
Boo, I wanted to be one of the first to know when DC streaming is up
Luke Richardson
A show about the fucking Bus ride Clark took from Smallville to Metropolis
Matthew Gomez
It's bound to happen. You know it's true.
And no one will ever ask Lois why a reporter that seeks the truth chose to date the most dishonest guy in the whole city.
Jason Johnson
Clark Kent: The series
Julian Foster
It is at least a year or two away.
Wyatt Smith
And here I thought it would be a sequel to Smallville
Luke Allen
>same producers as Gotham
Hot damn who will fire the rocket launcher
Anthony Lewis
How? Tom Welling is busy with Lucifer and seems to enjoy it so I don't think he'll like to reprise his role as Clark again
Jordan Morris
>Metropolis without Superman
Why? Just make a Superman show with the guy from Supergirl.
Jack Wood
A Themyscira show would be better than Metropolis. You could see Amazons battle with Gods and monsters. Metropolis is just going to be boring
Ethan Bennett
that sounds cool. Metropolis sounds dumb and boring
Carson Roberts
Other ideas: >A comedy about Ma and Pa Kent trying to raise a baby Superman >A gritty drama starring Perry White in his early days at the Daily Planet >Jimmy Olsen's Bizarre Adventure
Chase Ward
Something Unlimited is canon now?
Hudson Brown
This is from "Superman: Doomsday". Lois seduces Lex just to knock him out and investigate his room. She spits in disgust right after the kiss.
HOWEVER, in the first two episodes of Superman: TAS, Lois and Lex were an item.
Brody Moore
>Just make a Superman show with the guy from Supergirl. No, it will be cw shit tier.
Juan Watson
CENTRAL CITY?
Nicholas Adams
It requires less budget and superpower action scenes.
Adrian Richardson
OA
John Turner
already made it and replaced the guardians with some weird dancing
Michael Jones
A General Hospital/Grey's anatomy style soap opera starring Dr. Harleen Quinzel.
Ian Roberts
The page says it's coming in 2018
Hudson Morris
>Warner Bros. upcoming DC-Branded direct-to-consumer digital platform Wouldn't a general wb service be better than a dc specific one.
Will it have that old lois and clark show? What about the oooolllddd aquaman stuff.
Christian Reed
I was keen on krypton until that time travel shit.
Xavier Carter
That's a terrible idea. Krypton, gotham and metropolis have some potentiol but that would be boring shit.
Atlantis would be cool though. Make it a case of the week detective show.
If you want a wondy prequel then make it set before they retreated to paradise island.
Jacob Nelson
Wait they ended up making powerless?
Camden Wright
Atlantis cop show Mars racial tension show (I don't know a whole lot about Martin Manhunter)
Wyatt Murphy
>Smallville >Krypton >Metropolis >Gotham
This is the weirdest DC thing.
Joshua Price
Gotham City Sirens!
Jaxon Wright
They said it'll have all the old stuff. I don't think anything was officially announced. It's being paired with Marvel Unlimited-like comic service too, hence why it's DC only.
I hope it works out but I can't see them giving the shows more budget than a typical CW show.
Jose Cruz
Not really mad, it's something I'll never watch, but DC is so pathetic it's funny.
Eli Johnson
It will be better than Inhumans and Iron Fist, at least.
Hudson Nguyen
Llhe said, as people laughed at the inhumans trailer.
John Diaz
I can't wait for all of Superman's rogues to be appear before he does
Jackson Rivera
>Harley getting an animated series before Diana Whhhhy?
Luke Morris
Krypton is a weird setup. Terminator setup to make sure Superman is born, and that Krypton is doomed regardless what Grandpa El does.
Owen King
Yea but instead of being an insurance company dealing with Superhero stuff it was a WayneTech R&D branch that made shit for Batman unbeknownst to them.
The setup leaned so heavy on Batman that is pretty much fell apart.
Like making their boss some obscure Sliver Age Wayne Cousin.
Henry Hernandez
Yeah, it's fucking stupid. DC timeline with just one superman isn't all that great. If they can go back in time, why not save all the kryptonians instead of like 3 or 4. You could have tons of supermen. They'd have to start giving out personal supermen like oprah gives out cars: you get a superman! and you get a superman! everyone gets a personal superman. What could go wrong?
Anthony Harris
Because they know Superman's the hero. And because everytime a Kryptonian is brought to Earth they're always evil assholes
Kevin Moore
Pull a Doctor Who and trap Krypton in a pocket dimenson after shooting off the baby rocket.
Joshua Russell
What the fuck is this? DC has quite a few superpowered teams they can use for a series to launch their streaming service... and they go for this?
>No Outsiders >No Metal Men >No Doom Patrol >No Green Lantern Corps (doesn't need to have any human lanterns) >No Legion of Superheroes >No Wildstorm related characters
Any of them would be better than fucking Metropolis without Superman.
Andrew Torres
Hell, a Blackhawk show would be cool. They could do the post-Chaykin continuity with the Hawks doing covert missions for the gov
Nolan Gomez
Winter Men should have a prestige series on HBO
Justin Anderson
no its not
Gavin White
>>Jimmy Olsen's Bizarre Adventure Fund it.
Asher Murphy
You mean like in Smallville?
Liam Green
>No Superman
but why
Angel Lee
Right cause Gotham was so successful and enjoyable
Aiden Long
>CENTRAL CITY is a new one hour medical drama centered on Dr. Henry Allen and his struggle to conceal his job and his home life with his estranged wife Nora and their borderline supernaturally unlucky son Barry, who can never catch a break.
