Booster Gold on 'Smallville'
DC Entertainment is continuing the push to bring its characters to other media. We’ve got a Young Justice (Teen Titans) cartoon series, a Green Lantern cartoon series, a DC Nation (mostly) cartoon series.
We also had a failed attempt to bring Wonder Woman back to television, so they’re not all winners.
Today, The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Syfy has ordered a pilot script for a possible Booster Gold series from Fringe executive producer Andrew Kreisberg and producer Greg Berlanti. The story seems straight out of the comics:
[It] will center on Booster Gold, a washed-up athlete from the future who travels back to the present in hopes of becoming the greatest super hero of all time. Instead of chasing criminals, however, his main priority is chasing fame and money. But Booster Gold discovers that being a hero takes more than just a megawatt smile, and that the future doesn’t happen without first protecting the present.
Booster Gold has already made a live action appearance. He had a surprisingly awesome turn during the final season of Smallville.
Please keep in mind that this is all VERY PRELIMINARY. Syfy haven’t even ordered a pilot shot from the script, which hasn’t even been written yet. But it’s good to see that DC Entertainment is still working on getting their characters out there in front of the masses.
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Booster Gold was the first super hero cameo I saw in Supernatural. It would be only right to me to make his own series.
You mean smallville?
Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease let this happen.
I’m continually impressed with Kreisberg, especially the episodes of Fringe he wrote as well as the writing he did on the incredibly under-rated Eli Stone. With that sort of pedigree putting together the script, I’m going to remain cautiously optimistic; The Booster story definitely has tv development potential.
This is exactly the type of thing DC needs to do, IMO: work on developing properties that might not be household names. And Booster certainly offers potential for action/comedy.
Awesome. I love Fringe and there isn’t a fun sci-fi action adventure on tv. Booster could be a blast if done right.
you may want to try Haven & Alphas on SyFy also Terra Nova has gotten better
Would love to see Booster on TV, but they need to work on that costume, that Smallville costume didn’t work.
yeah i agree, if he’s gonna look like a cheesy nascar driver from the future, then i will have a difficult time getting on board with that.
I thought the Smallville costume made sense for that particular episode. It kept with the whole idea of him being a glory hound.
@boomergirl: I agree. The costume makes perfect sense for the character.
i’ve always thought Booster’s costume was too silly to be taken seriously as a pro football player even if its from the future. Would love to see Booster take on some bruiser NFL DB’s wearing all that puffy gold. I dunno..have him look a bit more bad ass. But at this point who knows what they’d do with the character.
I don’t get why his jacket/coat from Smallville has abs.
I’d like Blue Beetle to be in the main cast. Maybe not at first but still. Don’t care which Blue Beetle it is, i like them both.
They could work Ted/Kord Industries in as some sort of corporate sponsor and/or tech provider.
I’m really surprised DC isn’t working the Warner angle with going for CW or even Cartoon Network (who are doing some live action stuff now), instead of handing over money to NBCUniversal. Though the time-travel cheezmeister Booster Gold is a decent fit for SyFy.
As i understand, this is pretty common in TV for one studio to produce a show and another rival studio to actually broadcast it. Its very complex.
The budget would probably be too high for cartoon network, and the projected ratings may be too low for CW. remember those things exist to make money and if the numbers dont add up, they dont do it. thats why wonder woman was going to be nbc. The cost of the show (probably due to the cost of david e kelley and elizabeth hurley, smallville had producers no one heard of and the biggest name on the show was pa kent) was too high for the cw, who’s ad prices are typically lower than the big networks.
I wonder what other characters from the DCU, or DCnU, might make cameos or be a part of the supporting cast. To make Booster work as a character, I think you might need other heroes for him to bounce up against. And, do you eventually grow the character in the same way he did in the comics, where Booster becomes the greatest hero no one knows? Some interesting possibilities there.
My personal wish is that they introduce Ted Kord / Blue Beetle. Ted Kord (billionaire inventor w/ awesome gadgets) would be a fairly simple concept for audiences to accept, and I would love to see if they could pull off the buddy comedy thing.
If they could pull it off, I would love to see a live-action Guy for Booster to argue with.
Booster is a decent character but do you really see him holding up his own show?
Yes.
Read 52 or Geoff Johns’ run on Booster. There is no doubt this character has enough complexities and angles to hold a show.
Yes. But the codpiece and embroidered abs must be lost.
Sure….why not? I’ll probably watch it.
Although if this does get greenlit and it does air; how bad does that look on Wonder Woman? I mean she’s one of the big 3 at the company yet freakin Booster Gold can get a show on the air before her? Not that I’m saying Booster Gold is a bad character for TV, he can make a good series….but it’s just weird.
It doesn’t have any reflection on Wonder Woman seeing as how there are a myriad of factors as to why some shows get greenlit and some don’t.
@conor Yeah but isn’t one of the big factors in why Wonder Woman has yet to make it big on the small (or big) screen is that she isn’t an accessible character? I mean DC just had to make this big hoopla on how different and easier her origins are now after #3 came out.
You know you have it tough when an advertiser from the 25th century turned superhero is more accessible then one of your biggest characters in the company.
@TNC: No, I don’t believe that is one of the biggest factors. It’s also not relevant what DC is doing with her in the comics now, post-New 52 vs what happened earlier in the year with the failed TV show. They are unrelated.
I really don’t think the failed WW show is a good measuring stick for the character’s accessibility/chances in other mediums, since didn’t it pretty much change everything about her to fit David E Kelly’s “Single Female Lawyer” formula?
Connor is correct here; I know I just agreed with Connor. WW I tought was a pretty good pilot if anyone got the boot leg and watched it you would see. (Not that I have it……aaahhhhh) I really do not know why they dropped it, and if we get lucky and Booster makes it thru than good. It all depends on how it’s written, who the stars are in it, and that sort of thing; it does not have anything to do with WW directly.
On that note; I would love to have a Booster Gold TV show and for that matter any DC characters. Which gave me an idea; why not have a DC presents show and feature a new character or two or more in each story arc. Kinda like Twilight Zone meets the DCU; now would that not be awesome?! Think about all of the great short stories or long stories they could use and there would be no continuity to worry about…….. Way to cool!!
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Plus, there’s a whole other factor of SyFy vs NBC and budgets. Booster Gold might work better in a lower budget.
And for am moment, forget that Booster is a long-running DC character, his origin/story alone SCREAMS ‘cable TV’! I say that in a nice and good way.
I love Booster Gold, but this would suck… put $10,000 on it. I would prefer an Adult Swim/Archer-esque “Formerly Know as Justice League” tongue in check kinda show ….. that would rock !!!!!