For those keeping score at home: Wonder Man season two is cancelled, and the Blade movie is definitely not happening with Mahershala Ali. Now DC has some bummer news to add to Marvel’s tally of misery, with writer David Jenkins (creator of the cult-beloved Our Flag Means Death) confirming the Booster Gold series he’s been working on for at least a year is no longer happening.
“My Booster Gold won’t be moving forward,” Jenkins wrote on Threads. He pointed to Ali’s recent comments regarding “moving on” from Blade, noting, “Can’t improve on Mahershala’s lovely statement so I’ll just apply it here as well.” A Booster Gold series has been percolating since at least January 2023, when then-DC newcomers James Gunn and Peter Safran unveiled their planned slate. As part of their big announcement, they revealed a bunch of movies, including Superman (back when it was still titled Superman: Legacy) and Supergirl (then Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow); and TV shows, including the animated Creature Commandos, which arrived in 2024, and Lanterns, which arrives this August. Booster Gold was among those prospective projects—and there are a lot still in the ether, including Andy Muschietti’s much-anticipated Batman entry, The Brave and the Bold, and that on-again, off-again Sgt. Rock movie. As Variety points out, “This past April, Gunn had said that The Authority [movie] was no longer in the works but added that Booster Gold remained in development and [the Themyscira-set TV show] Paradise Lost was in ‘extreme development.'”
