My Adventures with Superman producer Josie Campbell lately revealed that Warner Bros. requested the animated sequence to make use of lesser-known villains from the comics over traditional antagonists like Lex Luthor.
In an interview with The Comics Cube (through The Direct), My Adventures With Superman producer Josie Campbell revealed that the studio’s notes restricted the present from utilizing traditional villains like Brainiac, Normal Zod, and Lex Luthor within the first season. “A few of it was… Warner Bros…. and I believe it was a great word,” she mentioned. “Like our huge execs on Warner Brothers had been like, ‘Properly, these are the large hitters that everyone’s seen and all people’s anticipating. And we’ve seen this one million instances, so we would like your twists on issues.'”
Campbell continued, “And I believe it was Sam Register and Audrey Diehl, who had been doing notes with us, had been like, ‘These characters take up the entire display screen. They type of suck the air out as a result of they’re so well-known, and there’s so many expectations, so maintain off on them. Maintain off on these characters, and construct the story the way you see match.'”
Season 1 Finale Did Tease Two Restricted Villains
Whereas Lex Luthor didn’t present up in My Adventures with Superman Season 1, Brainiac and Normal Zod seemingly did, showing within the closing moments of the season finale. In “Hearts of the Fathers,” a robotic bearing the three-dot image of Brainiac is proven informing a Kryptonian warrior that Earth must be conquered. The warrior then delivers Zod’s traditional line that humanity will “kneel” earlier than him. Whereas each Brainiac and Zod had been by no means talked about by title, most followers imagine that these characters shall be confirmed to be the enduring villains in Season 2.
Developed by Wyatt and produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios, My Adventures with Superman is a serialized coming-of-age story starring Jack Quaid as a twenty-something Clark Kent, who together with the brilliant and pushed Lois Lane (Alice Lee) and their greatest good friend Jimmy Olsen (Ishmel Sahid) start to find who they’re whereas working collectively as an investigative reporting workforce on the Every day Planet.
A second season of My Adventures with Superman is presently in manufacturing. Whereas some DC followers have expressed hope in seeing Batman pop up on the present, particularly after Gotham resident Vicki Vale appeared in Season 1, Campbell has indicated that the present will stay strictly Superman-focused, though “there’s nonetheless going to be some extra mentions of Gotham, so hold a watch out.”
My Adventures with Superman is streaming on Max.
Supply: The Comics Cube, through The Direct