There’s reportedly another casualty in Warner Bros. Discovery’s restructuring of the DC Universe, as filmmaker Kevin Smith said the Strange Adventures animated series is not moving forward.
According to Smith on his Hollywood Babble-On podcast (via THR), Strange Adventures is the next project to hit the cutting room floor as a result of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
“Strange Adventures being a casualty kind of made sense to me, I’m like, nobody necessarily knows these characters, and it sounded like an expensive show,” Smith said on the podcast.
WarnerMedia first announced Strange Adventures back in 2019. The show was intended to be an anthology series produced by Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and John Stephens. Stephens was also set to serve as writer and showrunner. At the time, the show was described as, “An anthology series of cautionary tales set in a world where superpowers exist”.
Smith said the show would focus on characters other than Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and other DC characters everybody knows. For example, in an episode Smith wrote, he said he picked Jimmy Olsen and Bizarro to focus on.
According to Smith, the actor they were pursuing to play Bizarro in this story was Nicolas Cage, but the talks never progressed prior to production coming to a halt. The show was announced alongside a Green Lantern series, which according to THR, is still on track for HBO Max.
In the same podcast, Smith also spoke out about Warner Bros. Discovery’s sudden cancellation of the Batgirl movie, calling the move “an incredibly bad look.”
Beyond Batgirl and now Strange Adventures, a handful of other DC projects have been impacted by the Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Other affected movies and series include Season 9 of The Flash, The Wonder Twins, The Supergirl movie, and more.
To read up on the whole situation, check out our report on The Batgirl cancellation, the social media fallout, and more.
Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.