Final September, WarnerMedia closed an unlimited cope with producer-writer-director J.J. Abrams and his firm Unhealthy Robotic to supply tv exhibits, motion pictures, and extra for the conglomerate. With WarnerMedia’s Netflix competitor HBO Max on the horizon, the deal was a coup, making certain that Abrams, no stranger to IP rebooting, may each spin up authentic content material and tackle main properties for the streaming service. Now we’re getting the primary style of that deal.

HBO Max right this moment introduced on Thursday that Abrams and Katie McGrath’s Unhealthy Robotic Productions and Warner Bros. Tv Group would produce three new sequence for the streamer, considered one of them culling from DC Comics’ untapped library of characters.

The primary is an authentic, referred to as Duster, co-written by J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan (The Strolling Lifeless). In keeping with a information launch, the sequence is about within the Nineteen Seventies Southwest, and tracks the lifetime of a “gutsy getaway driver for a rising crime syndicate [that] goes from terrible to wildly, stupidly, dangerously terrible.”

The second sequence, Overlook, is “a horror-thriller sequence impressed by and that includes iconic characters from Stephen King’s masterpiece The Shining.” The present will discover the “untold, terrifying tales of essentially the most well-known haunted resort in American fiction,” which seems like an anthology within the making. This marks Abrams’ second collaboration with Stephen King after Hulu’s Citadel Rock.

The third is a big coup for the DC Leisure model. The brand new sequence will concentrate on the DC characters within the “Justice League Dark” Universe, a gaggle that usually contains John Constantine, Swamp Factor, Deadman, Zatanna, and Etrigan, a demon imprisoned within the physique of the medieval knight. Everybody from Doug Liman to Guillermo del Toro have flirted with a film adaptation through the years, however now it’s going to sequence underneath Abrams’ supervision. WarnerMedia expects extra particulars to be revealed quickly.

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