HBO Max looks like it’s adding another DC television project to its upcoming slate, with Variety reporting that development is underway on a live-action adaptation of the Aqualad YA graphic novel You Brought Me the Ocean.
The one-hour dramedy series, which counts Charlize Theron among its producers, will explore the life of Jackson ‘Jake’ Hyde, “a gay teenager living in New Mexico. All his life, he has had a strange attraction to the water and yearns to escape his desert surroundings for the ocean. As he explores his abilities, including breathing under and controlling water, he also finds himself falling in love with his classmate, high school swim captain Kenny Liu.”
The Jake Hyde incarnation of Aqualad was created by Brandon Vietti, Greg Weisman and Phil Bourassa for the animated series Young Justice, and in the comic books he would go on to succeed Arthur Curry as the second Aquaman. The graphic novel You Brought Me the Ocean, from creators Alex Sanchez and Jul Maroh, was released in 2020.
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The You Brought Me the Ocean series joins a growing slate of DC projects at HBO Max, including the DC Universe shows Titans, Doom Patrol and Harley Quinn, as well as the upcoming The Penguin and Arkham Asylum spinoffs from The Batman, the Green Lantern series, and the Batgirl movie.
