DC on HBO

[Jekecy]

I'd be up for a gritty HBO DC series but I wouldn't want it connected to the movies. That model just doesn't really work all that well.-

Hasn't really been given the proper treatment though. On paper, it seems like the ideal setup. You get to develop your characters more fully throughout the episodes, but you can still have your cake and eat it too by saving the flashier 'events' for the blockbuster releases.

It would take tremendous foresight, planning, and scheduling.

Dark Tower is attempting something similar, so we'll see how that pans out.

 

[ManWithNoName18]

I'm willing to bet post Game of Thrones HBO would be looking for a big budget Type series to start afterwards.

As of now it seems Westworld is that series. That and probably a GOT spinoff/prequel. HBO seems to what they want regardless of trends. So far while everyone else are trying to get superheroes on tv, haven't heard a single rumor of HBO in talks for anything.

 

[CaptainWagner]

A Martian Manhunter series, each season with him in a new time period, a new human identity, etc...

 

[DOBSON10]

This is what they should have done with Green Arrow from the jump, with a better cast and a bigger budget, more gritty, less soap opera like, with the focus on actual comic characters *cough* No Felicity *cough*, centered around Green Arrow and Black Canary.

Nightwing would be another good fit as well. Batman, obviously, but that will never happen.

Sadly it looks like they're content with the corny CW shows.

 

[BarryAllen]

The Question would make for a great show.

 

[The Endless]

I'd love to see 100 Bullets get adapted. And a proper version of Lucifer.

 

[Boy Scout]

Personally, I'd only be interested in an HBO series if it starred an A- or B-Lister - or even a group of them.

 

[Victarion]

Deathstroke

Bronze Tiger

Lady Shiva

Possibly Bronze Tiger and Lady Shiva together?

Either HBO or Netflix would be the best medium for Sandman, I think. Reading the first graphic novel, I don't see how you do all this with 2 hours and 30 minutes. I'm sure it only gets more complex from there.

 

[Superchan]

I'd love to see 100 Bullets get adapted. And a proper version of Lucifer.

100 bullets is a work of art and since we're including vertigo and not just the main DC line I would add Y the last man and Ex machina from Vaughn.

 

[Fallen Angel]

I'm willing to bet post Game of Thrones HBO would be looking for a big budget Type series to start afterwards.

Westworld is their answer if it's successful.

 

[Nemeres]

My easy pick: Brian K Vaughan's Ex Machina, about a superhero with the power to speak to machines, manages on 9/11 to keep the plane from crashing into the second WTC tower and is later elected as mayor of New York. Lots of politics, real social issues and sci-fi. DC/Wildstorm, but it counts. It's an amazing comic, and as HBO as DC fare gets.

 

[Superchan]

My easy pick: Brian K Vaughan's Ex Machina, about a superhero with the power to speak to machines, manages on 9/11 to keep the plane from crashing into the second WTC tower and is later elected as mayor of New York. Lots of politics, real social issues and sci-fi. DC/Wildstorm, but it counts. It's an amazing comic, and as HBO as DC fare gets.

Ex machina is essentially the rocketeer if it was written by sorkin! It can also work as a movie series because the comic consists of multiple separate arcs.

 

[Cobblepot]

I would like to see a pre-Batman show. Bruce traveling the world, training etc. It was shown a little in Begins. Or a true Noir GCPD show, solving a major case revolving around a few Batman villains.

 

[terry78]

The days of Spawn the animated series need to come back.

 

[DrCosmic]

I would like to see a pre-Batman show. Bruce traveling the world, training etc. It was shown a little in Begins. Or a true Noir GCPD show, solving a major case revolving around a few Batman villains.

That's the rub for me. A Pre-Batman show should be Pre-Batman.

A Martian Manhunter series, each season with him in a new time period, a new human identity, etc...

Brilliant. I would love this.

 

[Luke234]

HBO shows like GOT are so highly regarded. I think it would be amazing to have 3 separate shows:man of steel, batman, and Wonder Woman and a justice league mini series type thing on the same channel like marvel plans the defenders.
Same lead actors appear in the movies. The shows could include smaller characters and the well received ones could make it to film. It would be a good training ground for what other characters both hero and villain are enjoyed most. and the big 3 would have sooo much depth with 10-13 episode seasons. I think on HBO, this fantasy would turn everything around for DC ( even though I love it already).
You could develop some high stakes on tv by introducing other heroes and having some die that don't make it to film.

 

[Luke234]

The movies could reference " when superman beat Metallo" or "Batman took down the riddler" and these would be HBO season plots.

 

[Luke234]

Batman, being so well liked, I think would especially be a hit. Supes is my fave but Getting a full batman series would have enough time to show his detective skills, and really flesh out some villains too.

 

[Juan1193]

A huge no to Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman or any of the Justice League getting shows on HBO! Marvel didn't push Iron-Man, Spider-Man or Captain America onto Netflix instead they went with lesser known but compelling characters (Luke Cage, Daredevil, Elektra, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Punisher...etc) I feel DC should do the same!! Push the likes of The Question, Phantom Stranger, The Spectre, Midnighter, Voodoo, Secret Six, Sandman...etc. If you want to go high profile then use the Teen Titans! DC's Wildstorm and Vertigo have a ton of compelling characters, use them!

 

[Rorschach2012]

I wish the entire DCEU was on HBO. Maybe some day

 

[BlueLanternKal]

Titans could be solid if it follows the Marvel/Netflix model.

Nightwing show
Starfire show
Raven show
Tempest show

Then cross them over for a miniseries.

Season 2 of Nightwing could be Dick vs Jason.

 

[Rorschach2012]

Nah I'm not feeling that. Nightwing could hold his own show but I don't think the others could. A general Titans series would be great though

I think I would rather have a big budget Titans movie series though

 

[godisawesome]

I say a Gotham Knights ensemble cast show tied to the Batman film. A guy can dream.

Nightwing and Oracle would be the main headliners, with whatever new Robin (probably Tim or Damian) would theoretically be introduced in a Batman solo, alongside Nightwing, and at least two of the other Bat-females; I'd prefer Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown, but Kate Kane and Helena Bertknelli could work just as well. And the cast would grow to include the other characters anyway.

If Cass and Tim and Damian are part of the story, they make periodic appearances because Batman himself is ostensibly training them. The shawl would feature overlapping arcs that would build towards major villains, but not as one arc; Harvey Dent after plastic surgery would appear in all Nightwing's issues, and get pulled into the second one, before becoming the main villain afterwards. Some arcs would focus on particular characters (Tim trained by Shiva and vs King Snake, Cass dealing with her father, Babs forming the BoP with Dinah) before building towards a martial-all-forecast ending.

Season Two centers on the return of Jaosn Todd as Red Hood. Season Three. What the hell; DickBats, Red Robin, and Babs goes through surgery to get her legs back.

 

[Luke234]

A huge no to Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman or any of the Justice League getting shows on HBO! Marvel didn't push Iron-Man, Spider-Man or Captain America onto Netflix instead they went with lesser known but compelling characters (Luke Cage, Daredevil, Elektra, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Punisher...etc) I feel DC should do the same!! Push the likes of The Question, Phantom Stranger, The Spectre, Midnighter, Voodoo, Secret Six, Sandman...etc. If you want to go high profile then use the Teen Titans! DC's Wildstorm and Vertigo have a ton of compelling characters, use them!

Im sure these would all be be cool but they'd be so much more fleshed out than the big 3. People outside of DC hats superman. They hated the Boy Scout and they hate this version. I'd love to see some critical acclaim.

 

[Luke234]

It's funny that the DC movies echo the real world. Real people just won't accept superman no matter what. Ha.