Michael B. Jordan’s Superman project has now gained writers and an official title. According to Deadline, Val-Zod will be a limited series on HBO Max with Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters writing the series.
The character Val-Zod, created by Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott, is a different version of Superman within the DC multiverse of Earth-2. Much like Kal-El, Val-Zod was born on Krypton and his parents were executed by the Kryptonian council. He was later rescued among other orphans by Joe-El and Lara from Krypton’s destruction and sent to Earth. His Kryptonian parents didn’t believe in violence and he adopted their pacifist philosophy. After Earth-2’s original Superman died in a fight against an Apokolips invasion, Val-Zod eventually became the new Superman and helped fight off more of Apokolips’ forces.
Metayer and Peters recently wrote the seventh film in Paramount’s Transformers franchise, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, as well as Amazon’s Nola with Sam Raimi directing. The pair apparently had an “unexpected take” on Val-Zod’s origin which got them the writing job.
Jordan is executive producing the series with Elizabeth Raposo of Outliet Society. It is unknown whether Jordan will also star as Val-Zod or any other role in the series. His upcoming projects include reprising his role as Adonis Creed in Creed III, which he will also be directing, and Denzel Washington’s A Journal for Jordan.
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