Rumor: Another Tom King Project May Have A Home At DC Studios, A Reboot Of ‘Human Target’
There is no shortage of characters for the DCU to add or draw from, which means reboots are on the way. Yes, Superman and Supergirl make that fairly obvious, but James Gunn isn’t about to stop.
Neither is Tom King, who is already part of the writers’ room and has Gunn’s ear. Add to that the director’s open line to Warner Discovery head David Zaslav and the two most essential minds in the chain of command are a text away.
That means King will probably pitch at every opportunity, and according to a rumor, he already has. Via Medium and ComicBookMovie initially, FilmFront claims a new Human Target series is in the works with the implication it’s for Max or one of the streamers.
It’s also said the series will be based on the 2022 relaunch of the character by King and Greg Smallwood. Before going any further, we have to note that the original post was deleted so the accuracy of the rumor could be in question.
If not, King has reportedly been developing his idea since the beginning of the year and shall be the main writer. Someone else, however, will serve as the showrunner and they don’t have a lead yet.
The most notable success of the main character of Human Target, Christopher Chance, was on the Fox network. A series produced by Warner Bros. Television and starring Mark Valley aired for two seasons.
Chance would later be played by Wil Traval in a 2016 episode of Arrow, bringing him into the CW-verse. Many years earlier, Rick Springfield starred in an adaptation in 1992. That might sound ridiculous, but it existed.
Airing on ABC with Springfield as Chance, the series was one of the network’s many failed midseason replacements (a list that includes another comic book adaptation in 1997’s Timecop). It co-starred Kirk Baltz (Reservoir Dogs, Birds of Prey) and Scott Paulin (Captain America).
Human Target was created in 1972 by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino and appeared in the pages of Action Comics #419.
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