Move over Smallville, make room for Superman’s doomed alien home world as the next setting for the latest series coming our way from DC and Warner Horizon Television. Krypton, a one-hour drama from executive producers David S. Goyer (Constantine) and Ian Goldberg (Once Upon A Time) will appropriately air on Syfy.
Here is Krypton‘s official description:
Years before the Superman legend we know, the House of El was shamed and ostracized. This series follows The Man of Steel’s grandfather as he brings hope and equality to Krypton, turning a planet in disarray into one worthy of giving birth to the greatest Super Hero ever known.
The series, which will explore a part of DC lore that has for the most part been untouched on the small and big screen, is a tailor made fit for Syfy. DC and WBTV seem perfectly content on not keeping all their eggs in one broadcast basket: Arrow and Flash on The CW, Gotham on Fox, Constantine on NBC, Supergirl headed to CBS and Titans going to TNT. An overall shared Universe doesn’t appear to be a priority either. While The Flash and Arrow just aired a successful crossover arc, the rest of the shows spread all across the broadcast and cable seem unlikely, if not impossible to line up together. TNT’s Titans, led by Nightwing, in theory would to fit in nicely along side CW’s costumed heroes. Krypton could very easily serve as a prequel to either Supergirl (there is actually very little reason for it not to) or WB’s big screen universe.
Goyer is hardly a stranger to the DC camp. In addition to EP’ing Constantine, he also penned the screenplays to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy as well as Man of Steel (which serves as the launching point for DC’s cinematic universe). Since Goyer already rebooted the alien planet for Man of Steel, it also begs the possibility that the series would supplement the movie lore. It will be interesting to see if Goyer tosses out all the hard work and design he already put into that world.
Going two generations before Kal El’s earthbound adventures is ambitions, but more importantly allows the show runners carte blanche in putting their own stamp on Superman’s history. Hopefully the narrative pitfalls that haunted the Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica family drama prequel Caprica will not rear their ugly heads in Krypton.
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