HBO Max is developing three high-concept projects from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot – a DC Comics-inspired series using characters from Justice League Dark; a show set at The Shining’s infamous Overlook Hotel; and an original 1970s-set drama centered around a getaway driver.
All three hourlong dramas have been given production commitments, but given Abrams’ track record, it’s a fairly safe bet that all three TV shows will make it to series. The trio of shows will be produced by Warner Bros. Television; Bad Robot currently produces Westworld, Castle Rock, and HBO’s upcoming Demimonde and Lovecraft Country, along with Apple TV+ series Lisey’s Story, Little Voice, and My Glory Was I Had Such Friends.
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Duster, co-written by J.J. Abrams and The Walking Dead’s LaToya Morgan is set in the Southwest in the ’70s – here’s how HBO Max describes it: “The life of a gutsy getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate goes from awful to wildly, stupidly, dangerously awful.”
Overlook is described as “a horror-thriller series inspired by and featuring iconic characters from Stephen King’s masterpiece The Shining. Overlook explores the untold, terrifying stories of the most famous haunted hotel in American fiction.
HBO Max declined to give specific details about the DC Comics series, except to say it will be “a major series based on DC characters in the Justice League Dark Universe, details to be revealed soon.”
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“What an amazing start to our association with the wildly imaginative Bad Robot team under J.J. and Katie McGrath,” said Kevin Reilly, Chief Content Officer, HBO Max and President, TNT, TBS, & truTV. “What could be better than an original J.J. idea and then Warner Bros. letting them loose on iconic I.P. from Stephen King and the DC Universe and to provide more must-have programming on HBO Max.”
Justice League Dark won’t be the only DC-inspired project on HBO Max, which is also developing a Green Lantern series from Arrowverse mastermind Greg Berlanti, as well as Strange Adventures, an anthology series that “will explore close-ended morality tales about the intersecting lives of mortals and superhumans,” and DC Super Hero High, a half-hour comedy set at a boarding school following a group of teenagers who are destined to one day join the ranks of DC’s most epic heroes.
Overlook marks the latest Stephen King-inspired project from Warner Bros. – the film division released King’s Shining sequel Doctor Sleep, starring Ewan McGregor, in 2019, while King’s works continue to inspire Hulu’s Castle Rock, which recently aired its second season, featuring characters from Misery.
Source: IGN.com JJ Abrams Developing Justice League Dark Show for HBO Max