‘Strange Adventures’ Not Moving Forward At HBO Max

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Add Strange Adventures to the list of HBO Max projects that have recently been placed on the chopping block following the Warner Bros.

Discovery merger.Writer and director Kevin Smith first shared on his Hollywood Babble-On podcast that the DC Comics series will not be moving forward at the streaming service.

Sources have confirmed to Deadline that that is, in fact, the case.Strange Adventures was given a green light for development, along with a Green Lantern-inspired show, in 2019.

Green Lantern appears to still remain on track.Smith, who was set to direct and co-write an episode of the series, said on the podcast that the episode was to have revolved around Bizarro and Jimmy Olsen.“[Axing Strange Adventures] kind of made sense to me — nobody necessarily knows these characters, and it sounded like an expensive show,” Smith said on the podcast.Strange Adventures shares its name with a classic DC Comics series that premiered in 1950 and broke new ground as the first science-fiction anthology title from the venerable publisher of Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman.