Legion of Superheroes (HBO Max)

[thechase]

In his most recent newsletter, as well as talking about all his comic book plans, comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis also talked about writing a Legion Of Super-Heroes TV show for HBO Max, which came about after he had written the pilot of a TV animated adaptation of his and David Mack's comic book Cover, for Mack to direct.


So, miracle of miracles, HBO then asked what else I would want to do and if there's any DC properties I thought would make an interesting show. I may have yelled the word LEGION louder than you want to in a normal adult person business meeting. So yeah, the headline today is… HBO Max has put me to work on a LEGION OF SUPERHEROES TV SHOW. At the moment it is being developed as an adult animated show. Can you tell I am jumping up and down about this? I've been working on it for a while and last week I was sent to the next phase.



And he has given his readers his take on what such a show would be like.



Facts: its very early goings but I can tell you This will be an adaptation of the Legion of superheroes that Ryan Sook and I have been working on the last few years. And just like that series, on sale now, it will harken back to so many classics while at the same time doing what Legion does: pushing all the ideas of superheroes forward in every direction. I think Legion of superheroes is among the greatest franchises in the history of comics and I'm as honored to be curating them as I was Spider-man. So yes, Naomi, the show I helped create, is being made my others and I'M making Legion of Superhero show. Hollywood! So for those who don't know, animation takes a loooong time so you may not hear anything about this for a while as I'm just getting to work on it over the break.



The Legion of Super-Heroes was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino, as a group of superpowered beings living in the 30th centuries of the DC Comics Universe, and first appeared in Superboy stories in Adventure Comics #247 in 1958. Recently, Brian Bendis relaunched Legion Of Super-Heroes set in the 31st century, and tied it in with his work on Superman, sending Jonathan Kent then-Superbot-now-Superman a thousand years in the future as a proto-college. You can read his take on the superhero team from the far future, in these volumes, with a Justice League Vs. Legion Of Super-Heroes series by Bendis and Scott Godlewski about to launch from DC Comics. All very well timed…

bleedingcool.com/tv/hbo-max-puts-brian-bendis-to-work-on-a-legion-of-super-heroes-tv-show/

[schma]

Colour me curious. Bendins has a lot of crap that has taken the Lustre off his work. The upside for me is that my knowledge about the legion of superheroes is relatively limited. He's terrible at letting things like canon and established personalities get in the way of his plots (this was particularly problematic when he was running some of the major marvel crossovers and the plots required people to act completely out of character). That said tv canon will by necessity be different due to the differences in the mediums so this might be good.

[thechase]

He's written a couple of scripts for other animated shows, I think he adapted the Freaky Friday Logan and Peter plot for the USM cartoon, and he wrote for the MTV Spidey cartoon also

[Lizuka #BLM]

In general I find the Legion of Superheroes kind of almost uniformly terrible? I guess they're one of those properties that persists because it gives writers and artists something different to do but it just feels like this weird, shitty largely unrelated thing that every so often just randomly gets crowbarred into stuff that actually matters.

[BlackoutCreature]

::sigh:: Once again HBO is interested in making DC properties into TV shows and nobody picks Justice League Task Force? Or Guy Gardner: Warrior?

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Dec 21, 2021 4:15:41 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

In general I find the Legion of Superheroes kind of almost uniformly terrible? I guess they're one of those properties that persists because it gives writers and artists something different to do but it just feels like this weird, shitty largely unrelated thing that every so often just randomly gets crowbarred into stuff that actually matters.

The Legion is like the DC version of Inhumans. No one cares, but they still think someday people will.

[BlackoutCreature]

I really liked Legion Lost back in the day, but that was largely because they shrunk the team down to manageable numbers and put them in a unique situation. I really doubt this is the plan for whatever this show is going to be.

[Magnus the Magnificent]

Legion of Superheroes? Yay!

Brian Michael Bendis? Nay!

[Ultimo Gallos]

Dec 21, 2021 8:23:47 GMT -5 @therealoblivion said:

Dec 21, 2021 4:15:41 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

In general I find the Legion of Superheroes kind of almost uniformly terrible? I guess they're one of those properties that persists because it gives writers and artists something different to do but it just feels like this weird, shitty largely unrelated thing that every so often just randomly gets crowbarred into stuff that actually matters.

The Legion is like the DC version of Inhumans. No one cares, but they still think someday people will.

The thing with LoSH is it was a great comic in the 70s and 80s. Then Crisis happened and the title has floundered since then. But the Great Darkness Saga is as good as stuff like DKR or Batman year one.

Now with Bendis.... yea unless it is detective stuff or street level heroes his comics have always left me flat. Even his much praised run on Daredevil did nothing for me.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

As long as they keep it self-contained and don't try to make some kind of universe out of it with six other shows also managed by Bendis.

The Legion only works in it's own little world.