Overview
- HBO Max has given a straight-to-series order for eight half-hour episodes of The People v. Gorilla Grodd, confirming the project as an official addition to the streamer’s DC slate.
- Skyler Gisondo will star as Daily Planet reporter Jimmy Olsen and Jimmy Tatro will portray Gorilla Grodd, with several actors from the Superman universe returning in supporting roles.
- Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault are named showrunners, writers and executive producers, Yacenda will direct every episode, and James Gunn and Peter Safran serve as executive producers.
- The series is presented as a true‑crime docuseries/mockumentary in which Jimmy Olsen reopens Gorilla Grodd’s murder conviction to investigate whether the ape was wrongly convicted.
- The order follows months of informal greenlights and pre‑casting work and joins other HBO Max DC projects such as Lanterns, signaling a push by DC Studios to experiment with genre and character-driven spinoffs; no release date has been announced.