Today at a surprise DC Fandome panel on Milestone Media, Oscar nominated filmmaker Reginald Hudlin revealed that a Static shock film was in development as part of DC’s revitalization of the impression dedicated to African-American voices.
No other specific details or talent connections were revealed about the Static shock film, but Hudlin is expanding the creative franchise that is Milestone Media, which launched in 1993, known from superheroes such as Icon, Rocket and Static Shock. Milestone’s return to publishing will be led by a brand new one Static shock digital comic series scheduled for February 2021. Future offers will be a Static Shock original graphic novel written by Hudlin with art by Kyle Baker, plus the return of Milestone heroes Icon and rocket, also written by Hudlin with art by Cowan and more to be announced.
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‘We talk to other divisions at Warner Bros., even with animations about making movies (Milestone Media), and we’re also expanding the Milestone characters into new media, such as podcasts with a series of stories on podcast . We want to deliver Milestone Media on whatever platform you want, “Hudlin said.
Static shock follows a teenager, Virgil Hawkins, in the city of Dakota with power based on electricity, who, with the help of his inventive friend, fights crime like a superhero. After walking in an area where chemical containers explode, Hawkins is mutated, given powers to generate, generate, record and control electricity and magnetism.
Static shock was an early 2000s animated series based on the comic strip broadcast by the WB television WB programming block.
Said Phil LaMarr, who voiced Static Shock on the animated series, and was also on today’s panel, “Virgil is what I always wanted as a comic book kid who grew up: Black Spider-Man. A good (comic book) story can you make it live, feel it, and when it does, it sounds on a whole different level.It was such a real world, and a structural story removed from the 1930s ‘We expose the world’. I felt it was drawn by someone who lived in a building I could fit in. It touched archetypes as a comic of which I loved, but also on my life as a Black man in the real world. “
Hudlin and LaMarr also joined DC Milestone Media co-founder Denys Cowan, DC Publisher and Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee and moderator Marc Bernardin on the panel today.
Beginning September through February 2021, DC will be digitizing classic stories from the Milestone library and make them for sale at Comixology, Amazon Kindle, Apple and other participating digital retailers. A list of titles will be announced shortly.
On the second part of DC Fandome on 12 sept. Will give fans access Milestone Returns # 0, a 17-page sampler that can be read 24 hours a day. Written by Hudlin with Greg Pak and covered by Denys Cowan and Chris Sotomayor, the sampler will introduce fans and re-introduce them to Milestone characters like Static Shock, Icon, Rocket, Duo and others. The sampler features art through an incredible lineup of Talent, including Cowan, Jim Lee, Ryan Benjamin, Khoi Pham, Scott Hanna, Bill Sienkiewicz, Don Ho, Alex Sinclair and Deron Bennett.
