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.. NO, not that prequel show, this is another one :

https://heroichollywood.com/superman-prequel-series-metropolis-dc-digital-service/

Superman Prequel Series ‘Metropolis’ Scores Straight-To-Series Order At DC Digital Service

A live-action Superman prequel series from the producers of Fox’s Gotham is headed to DC’s digital service.

Variety has revealed that the series, which is titled Metropolis, has scored a 13-episode order, with production set to begin later this year for a 2019 launch on the upcoming digital service. According to the trade, Metropolis revolves around Lois Lane and Lex Luthor as “they investigate the world of fringe science and expose the city’s dark and bizarre secrets” before the arrival of the Man of Steel.

Metropolis is the second Superman prequel series in the works at Warner Bros. and DC, joining Syfy’s Krypton, which premieres on March 21st. The series was originally being developed as a companion to Gotham, but Fox decided to pass on the the project.

John Stephens and Danny Cannon, two writers and executive producers on Gotham, are on board as executive producers for Metropolis. Cannon is directing the first episode from a script written by Stephens. No further details about the Superman prequel are known at this time.

This is the fourth project currently in development for DC’s digital service. The other three are a live-action Titans series, an animated Harley Quinn series and third season of Young Justice.

Metropolis revolves around Lois Lane and Lex Luthor as “they investigate the world of fringe science and expose the city’s dark and bizarre secrets” before the arrival of the Man of Steel.

..e.rr...... yeah.

ho hum.

TBH I'd rather have a series focused on Luthor and his rise to the top.


Like BIllions but set in the DC universe kind of thing.

So, there was this TV show called Smallville... Lasted 10 years, perhaps the producers have heard of it?

Smallville is long gone, and it would have been better had it not lasted 10 years IMO.

It jumped the shark in fairly spectacular fashion, moving from a solid, tight concept in "Clark Kent in high school dealing with low-level threats" to the whole bunch somehow working as reporters for the Daily Planet in their early 20s while fighting villains like Doomsday and Darkseid. There was this TV show called Lois & Clark...

What's most baffling is that we have two Superman prequel TV shows on the way, but no actual Superman movies officially on the schedule. There are rumors that we may get some news about that soon, however.

Haven't we done this concept a couple times before?

More to the point...I don't really see a point. Superman is a boring character (to me at least), and his background of Apple Pie and Baseball rural midwestern America and then escapades at the Daily Planet just aren't particularly compelling. Iconic, sure, but boring. Particularly next to shows and stories like Jessica Jones or the Punisher or even Batman.

Supes is just...wholly uninteresting

Smallville might have gotten a bit whacky at the end there, but I'll take whacky over "CSI": Lois & Lex" or "Fringe 2: I Never Asked For This Boogaloo" any day of any week from now until the end of time.

Crudely stapling some of the mundane trappings of a comic book property onto a generic procedural framework is a huge step backwards for TV superheroics, it reeks of the whole "black leather" phase where some crusty old executive decrees comic book stuff is for children and they have to edgy it up a bit or at least strip away all the stuff that isn't "serious".

 Vaktathi wrote:
Haven't we done this concept a couple times before?

More to the point...I don't really see a point. Superman is a boring character (to me at least), and his background of Apple Pie and Baseball rural midwestern America and then escapades at the Daily Planet just aren't particularly compelling. Iconic, sure, but boring. Particularly next to shows and stories like Jessica Jones or the Punisher or even Batman.

Supes is just...wholly uninteresting

given how miserably Zac's attempt to make Supes interesting turned out I'd be up for a season or two of silly wholesome goodness, sadly looking at the article its Gotham 2.0

... Metropolis revolves around Lois Lane and Lex Luthor

So we have Batman without Batman (Gotham), and now we're getting Superman without Superman.

I'm convinced that WB/DC don't really understand what their fans want.

Oh dear, this doesn't sound great. Gotham works so well because (leaving aside the fact that series 3 is essentially an excellent Batman origin arc) even pre-Batman the city is full of crazy things. You've got the Court of Owls, you've got an up-and-coming Riddler and Penguin and proto-Joker, you've got Arkham doing various screwed-up projects. The city is full of madness before Batman comes along, and Gotham very much sets up Batman as a response to that madness. Moreover, so many Batman villains have the potential to be great characters that it's easy to make a compelling story simply about them, which Gotham does excellently.

On the other hand, most of the threats to Metropolis come about because it's where Superman is based. Before him, there's no reason for there to be a Metallo or an Amazo or a Parasite or a Zod... Unless they shoehorn some of those villains in anyway and have Lois and Lex take then down by being improbably intrepid and clever respectively, which is just a disservice to just about any characters involved. Few Superman villains have (or need) particularly deep characters or histories, so you can't tell a story about any of them except Lex. Take that away, and what do you have? Lex unopposed in his rise to power, Lois maybe writing the occasional cutting article about him, and... that's literally it. At which point, why call it a DC series at all?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

... Metropolis revolves around Lois Lane and Lex Luthor

So we have Batman without Batman (Gotham), and now we're getting Superman without Superman.

I'm convinced that WB/DC don't really understand what their fans want.

Exactly!

I'm not that interested in either, and quite frankly the properties without the Properties are really that interesting, and I don't see how The Powers That Be can't seem to figure this out either?

I suppose Gotham does "OK" Fox, maybe?

But these things could be so much more *with* the Main Characters in them, even if "only" in a supporting/occasional role...

Eh. I get the concept (as Bats and Supes are the least interesting parts of their franchises), but L&L having wacky adventures together is a strange place to go. Cub reporter Lois keeping an eye on/building a reputation based on the rise of Lex would make more sense.

The first two seasons of Gotham were interesting for the character of the city, and establishing Gotham and the crowd of loonies. Every time Bruce was crowbarred into the plot, it was pretty awful. Season 3 I just turned off. The suspension of disbelief got to much and it was leaning toward Inhumans level of bad on a regular basis.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

... Metropolis revolves around Lois Lane and Lex Luthor

So we have Batman without Batman (Gotham), and now we're getting Superman without Superman.

I'm convinced that WB/DC don't really understand what their fans want.

This will be so worth it if it gives us a Garfield Minus Garfield situation.

So we are going to watch Lex Luther run into all of super mans bad guys before superman shows up? What a dumb idea for a show.