Overview
- HBO Max officially greenlit the eight-episode series on Friday, August 21, with James Gunn attached as an executive producer and Warner Bros. Television as the studio.
- Tony Yacenda and Dan Perreult, creators of American Vandal, will serve as showrunners and writers with Yacenda directing all episodes to give the show a mockumentary true-crime style.
- The premise frames Daily Planet staffer Jimmy Olsen as the documentarian who reopens the famous trial that convicted Gorilla Grodd of killing the King of Gorilla City.
- Skyler Gisondo will reprise Jimmy Olsen from the 2025 Superman film, Jimmy Tatro will play Grodd, and the returning Daily Planet cast includes Beck Bennett, Mikaela Hoover, and Wendell Pierce alongside a larger ensemble.
- No production schedule or release date has been announced, and DC leaders present the project as a deliberate genre experiment to test a comedy-true-crime tone within the broader DCU.