Warner Bros. has launched a digital series production unit that they are calling “Blue Ribbon Content,” and one of the series that they have in development for it is based on the DC/Milestone comic book Static, also known to fans of animation as Static Shock.
Here’s what Deadline had to say about the development, complete with creative team information:
Static Shock — Writer/producer/director Reginald Hudlin (Best Picture Oscar® nominee for producing Django Unchained, writer/director of House Party, executive producer/director of acclaimed TV series The Bernie Mac Show) leads the creative team behind a live-action adaptation of Static Shock, featuring the African-American super hero Static, aka Virgil Ovid Hawkins. Static Shock is based on the Static comic co-created by the late Dwayne McDuffie with co-writer Robert L. Washington III and artist John Paul Leon, which was originally published by the DC Comics imprint Milestone Comics and, later, by DC Comics. Milestone Media co-founder/comic book artist/TV producer Denys Cowan (the original Static Shock animated series) is collaborating with Hudlin on the new Static Shock. The aforementioned animated version of Static Shock previously aired for four seasons during the Saturday morning Kids’ WB! programming block on The WB Network from 2000–2004.
You can read about what else Blue Ribbon Content has in development at Deadline… just forgive their “Mortal Combat” typo. Hopefully as development progresses we will know more about what this Static Shock may become. As one of the highest-profile comic book properties with an African-American lead, Static Shock could have a wealth of potential, in any live-action medium.
