Superman prequel series Metropolis order by DC's digital service

[Enterprise is Great]

deadline.com

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.

i'm sure it'll be as wacky, nonsensical and over the top like Gotham. I wonder if Clark Kent will show up sometime.

 

[dahj]

A Lois focused series is way overdue.

But for Grodd's sake, get some women in the writing room already... this would have been way more exciting if it wasn't coming from the guys behind Gotham, track record of which for female characters is ranging from the usual fetish fantasy to horribly creepy treatment of Poison Ivy ...

 

[JD]

So basically it's going to be a Superman version of Gotham? Sounds good to me.

 

[The Realist]

Dammit, they got me: my first annoying streaming horseshit thingie. I blew off Star Trek: Discovery, and was even prepared to sit out Titans, but this is beyond my capacity to resist.

 

[Christopher]

Is this for real, and not some kind of joke?

I would love the idea of a Lois Lane solo series, if only it weren't from the Gotham people. And what's with that blurb? Lois and Lex investigating fringe science together? What the hell??

 

[cylkoth]

Is this for real, and not some kind of joke?

Why can't it be both?
So, the recent casting news for a Lois Lane, wasn't for Supergirl, but most likely this.
Lois and Clark-less: The New Adventures of Lo-Lexis, coming soon to the DC Streaming thing that still has no name.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'm in.

 

[Tosk]

Coming soon, a Superman prequel set on Krypton about Kal-El's great great grandfather, and another one set ten minutes before Clark shows up in Metropolis.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Yawn.

I'm so tired of these prequel series that take place before the only person we really care about.

 

[DigificWriter]

Gotham is and has always been awesome, so the fact that this is coming from the EPs behind that series had me interested. When you throw in the notion of the show being something like FRINGE or Haven but within the context of the Superman mythology, I'm all in.

 

[kirk55555]

So, we now have two Superman sequels coming out, one set on Krypton and one set in Metropolis. but, we only actually get to see Superman once every 2-3 years, outside of a rare cameo on supergirl. What's up with all these prequels being made while ignoring the character people actually care about? Not that you can't care about Krypton or Lois Lane, but its just getting silly at this point.

Also, its weird to know that Lois & Clark will now no longer be the worst Superman related live action TV show. Its even weirder to know that these will somehow have even less to do with Superman then that rom-com that sometimes dressed Dean Cain in a halloween costume for 10 seconds to justify it being connected to the character of Superman.

 

[F. King Daniel]

So, we now have two Superman sequels coming out, one set on Krypton and one set in Metropolis. but, we only actually get to see Superman once every 2-3 years, outside of a rare cameo on supergirl. What's up with all these prequels being made while ignoring the character people actually care about? Not that you can't care about Krypton or Lois Lane, but its just getting silly at this point.

If only we had a show about Clark Kent. It could go 10 seasons!

 

[The Realist]

I'm so tired of these prequel series that take place before the only person we really care about.

I care about Lois Lane plenty, thankyouverymuch.

Also, its weird to know that Lois & Clark will now no longer be the worst Superman related live action TV show.

Have you watched the Superboy TV series? That thing -- particularly in its first two seasons -- is literally the most incompetently mounted allegedly professional television production I've ever seen. Not that I don't love it -- I love it to distraction -- but it's terrible.

 

[kirk55555]

If only we had a show about Clark Kent. It could go 10 seasons!

As someone who enjoyed Smallville, at least it had the main character. It also (eventually) iuntroduced a lot of comic book elements, and even at the begining had comic book style stuff with all the meteor infected people. Beats a show where most of it is Lois and Clark having relationship drama with an added 30 seconds of one actor wearing a halloween costume and punching generic crooks just so they can justify the shows title.

Have you watched the Superboy TV series? That thing -- particularly in its first two seasons -- is literally the most incompetently mounted allegedly professional television production I've ever seen. Not that I don't love it -- I love it to distraction -- but it's terrible.

It might be, but I'll assume it at least starred Superboy and was about him. To me a bad rom-com is worse then a bad action/adventure type show.

 

[Christopher]

Lois and Clark-less: The New Adventures of Lo-Lexis, coming soon to the DC Streaming thing that still has no name.

Sounds more like Fringe: Metropolis Edition.

Yawn.

I'm so tired of these prequel series that take place before the only person we really care about.

Like The Realist, I care about Lois. While we're at it, I care about Jim Gordon too, and a show about his early days cleaning up the GCPD could have been pretty cool, if they hadn't chickened out on doing a Jim Gordon detective drama and just ended up doing a Batman show without Batman. I'm afraid this is going to get screwed up the same way.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Personally, I'm holding out for Perry White: Cub Reporter.

 

[dahj]

Personally, I'm holding out for Perry White: Cub Reporter.

Oh, if he was actually a bear cub that would be adorable.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Oh, if he was actually a bear cub that would be adorable.

Beary White (*shows self out).

 

[dahj]

Beary White (*shows self out).

Kent! KENT!!!!

 

[Gaith]

Is this for real, and not some kind of joke?

My reaction exactly. Arrow and The Flash (which are available for legit free viewing online as well as broadcast TV) are stingy enough with city location shooting, and they're not even trying to evoke NYC/depict Metropolis. And now DC wants us to pay to pay for what's likely to be a low-budget Fringe ripoff starring a generic reporter person and a not-yet-evil Lex Luthor (again)? Riiiiiight.