Warner Bros Developing Live-Action Film 'The New Gods' Featuring 'Darkseid'

Deadline is reporting that DC Comics is bringing Darkseid to the big screen in the upcoming live-action Warner Bros film The New Gods. The news was originally announced by the projects director, Ava DuVernay from a series of tweets. From the tweets, DuVernay announced the director will be working the next day with Tom King, the DC Comics star writer who won another Eisner Award at this month’s Comic-Con in San Diego on the New Gods script.

The Darkseid character was created by Jack Kirby and introduced in 1971 as the cruel galactic despot who lords over Apokolips, a nightmarish planet devoted to war, torture, conquest and total dominance over living things.

Because I’m a big fan of his too and asked him to write it with me and he said yes. Lucky me! #AskAva https://t.co/eG66hIVPjH

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 30, 2019

Darkseid is. #AskAva https://t.co/ypbVCXZ1je

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 30, 2019

Nope. Keeping my mind open. #AskAva https://t.co/IhuvqzuvQa

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 30, 2019

Congrats to you, @TomKingTK! See you tomorrow. 🌗 https://t.co/q5AZx17UnJ

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 22, 2019