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Our Flag Means Death creator/showrunner David Jenkins is writing a pilot for a live-action Booster Gold series, as first reported by Deadline. This is one of a handful of projects announced in 2023 when James Gunn and Peter Safran took over Warner Bros.'s cinematic DC plans, however Jenkins' work on this project is recent - as he is replacing Righteous Gemstones' Danny McBride, who was recently released from the project in what Gunn has said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast was displeasure with the scripts.

"It's true y'all! I'm writing a pilot about this lovable goofball for HBO Max!!" Jenkins writes on Instagram. "Honored to work for James Gunn and very happy to inherit this project from Danny McBride, two of my creative heroes."

Booster Gold is a character Warner Bros. has been keen on developing as a TV series for over a decade, even at one point announcing a live-action series with Flash co-creator Greg Berlanti for Syfy in 2011, and making the character off limits for the Arrowverse.

For Jenkins, this would be the third consecutive project with Warner Bros. after TBS' People of Earth and HBO Max's Our Flag Means Death. According to Deadline, the plan is for Jenkins to write a pilot, and, once workshopped and presumably approved, Jenkins would go on to be showrunner of the series itself.

Booster Gold is an atypical DC hero - think more Deadpool than Superman. He comes from the future with a goal for fame and wealth, but inside is a real hero who comes out while still being an aggrandizer.

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