It’s the Jimmy Olsen and Gorilla Grodd show!
The new DCU is in full swing with Supergirl on its way. Man of Tomorrow is also in production, but there is also a Jimmy Olsen spin-off series coming from the new universe. It was said that the inaugural season of the spin-off will concentrate on Gorilla Grodd. According to IGN, James Gunn clarified on Threads that it will be equally about the Daily Planet photographer and the primate super villain. He explained in a post,
It’s both a Jimmy Olsen AND a Gorilla Grodd show. And it’s one of my favorite projects. We start filming soon.”
Gunn also explained in an Instagram comment that this was always his intention and denied claims that the project started out as a Jimmy Olsen show but evolved into a Gorilla Grodd show. He clarified,
It didn’t become anything. It is what it’s always been, including pitching it as part of the package before I even started at DC.”
Superman’s Pal
Gisondo made his DCU debut in Superman. As in the comics, Jimmy Olsen is a young photographer at the Daily Planet, but the movie also transformed him into an unlikely ladies’ man. Other members of the Daily Planet include Beck Bennett as reporter Steve Lombard, Mikaela Hoover as columnist Cat Grant, and Christopher McDonald as reporter Ron Troupe, Wendell Pierce as Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White, and, of course, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and David Corenswet as Clark Kent.
Jimmy Olsen will also likely return for Man of Tomorrow. The Superman follow-up will start production in April 2026, and Warner Bros. have already scheduled the sequel for a July 9, 2027 release. While speaking on the Howard Stern Show in September, Gunn dropped a few story details. “It’s a story about Lex Luthor and Superman having to work together to a certain degree against a much, much bigger threat,” he said. “It’s more complicated than that but. It’s as much a Lex movie as it is a Superman movie. I relate to the character of Lex, sadly. I really wanted to create something extraordinary with the two of them. I just love the script so much.” Many fans are speculating that this “much bigger threat” will be Brainiac, a possibility that Gunn may have even hinted at with the reveal of the script’s title page.
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