A live-action Black Lightning television series is in development, according to Deadline. The lead producer of DC’s various CW superhero shows Greg Berlanti is reportedly overseeing the project for Warner Bros. Television, with The Game creator Mara Brock Akil and her husband Salim Akil writing the prospective pilot. The series is reportedly being pitched to networks now.
According to the Hollywood trade, the Black Lightning series features Jefferson Pierce as a retired superhero who is pulled back into his costume after his daughter is recruited into a local gang. In comic books, Pierce had two daughters: Anissa (a.k.a. Thunder) and Jennifer (a.k.a. Lightning). Pierce was originally an Olympic gold medalist who returns home to Metropolis to work as a high school principal, and is spurred into action as a vigilante by the murder of one of his students.
He is also a former member of the Outsiders and the Justice League of America, Black Lightning has appeared in animated form on Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice: Invasion on television and with his super-powered daughters in the DC Nation shorts Thunder and Lightning.
What we thought was interesting is that according to Deadline, Warner Bros. have been developing a Black Lightning series “for well over a year,” with several “different incarnations” before the studio found something it liked.
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