With James Gunn and Peter Safran having dished out confirmation on 11 upcoming projects for the newly-branded DCU, Marvel’s revitalized competitor is bound to be the talk of the town for the next little while, whether that’s in the form of speculation for Elseworlds projects, fan-casts that range from wondrous to blasphemous, or surgical dissections of absolutely everything that Gunn tweets for the next year.
One welcome surprise was the DCU’s decision to give television shows just as much attention as movies, with the likes of Lanterns, Paradise Lost, and Creature Commandos set to make a splash on the small screen. If there’s any project that deserves the distinction of success story, it has to be the upcoming HBO Max Booster Gold series.
The relatively obscure superhero was introduced in the finale of Legends of Tomorrow in an attempt to ensure that the finale didn’t end up as the finale, but it wasn’t to be. Luckily, the high-tech loser was promised greener pastures by Gunn and Safran yesterday, and Dan Jurgens, the original creator of Booster Gold, is over the moon about it.
Tweeting out his hype-charged gratitude to Gunn and co., the comic writer and artist reminisced about the early days of Booster Gold’s conception way back in 1984, two years before the character made his comic book debut.
It sounds to be one of the cheekier projects to come out of DC Studios‘ new slate. For those of you not in the know, Booster Gold is a distinctly-average man from the future who finds himself shot back into the past, where his technology, considered mundane in his time, is nothing short of spectacular compared to the gizmos available in the past. Knowing this, he utilizes his tech to become both the superhero Booster Gold, and a prime candidate for the worst imposter syndrome imaginable.
Booster Gold will release on HBO Max, though there seems to be no available timeline for its production, development, or release.
