Brian Michael Bendis is a busy man. He’s at present arduous at work writing his last problems with the Justice League fundamental sequence, he’s nonetheless writing each the Justice League/League of Super-Heroes crossover and Naomi, and his and David Mack’s Eisner-nominated Cover is coming to HBO Max as an grownup animated sequence. Apparently, Bendis’ script for the Cover pilot was actually well-received, as a result of now he’s doing a Legion of Super-Heroes TV sequence for the streaming service, too.

The author made the announcement in a sprawling publish on his substack e-newsletter, Jinxworld, after mentioning delivering his Cover pilot to HBO Max execs [sic]:

“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 SUPER-HEROES 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,” Bendis continued, earlier than including: “Facts: it’s very early goings but I can tell you this will be an adaptation of the Legion of Super-Heroes that Ryan Sook and I have been working on the last few years. I think Legion of Super-Heroes is among the greatest franchises in the history of comics and I’m as honored to be curating them as I was Spider-Man.”

Bendis’ personal Legion of Super-Heroes comedian sequence, which ran for 12 points, introduced Superman’s son, Jon Kent, into the thirty first century to hitch the group. It additionally pitted the Legion in opposition to General Zod and the Kryptonian-hating Rogol Zaar, launched the joy-based Gold Lantern, and teased a “great darkness” for future points (which shall be resolved within the upcoming Justice League vs. Legion of Super-Heroes crossover Bendis can be engaged on). It shall be fascinating to see how the author brings this esoteric sequence, which pulls closely from his prior run on Superman, and can ultimately incorporate that work on Justice League, right into a present that individuals who haven’t been studying his work can grok.

Bendis is saying this extremely early, so it’s very seemingly we received’t be seeing this Legion of Super-Heroes till 2023 or so, assuming HBO picks it up in any respect past the pilot order. But because it retains renewing Titans and Doom Patrol, and there’s films like Batgirl on the best way, the streaming service appears eager sufficient on DC Comics content material that it feels seemingly the Legion can have their probability, too.

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