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‘Superman’ Spin-Off Officially Wraps Filming With a Very Different Take on the DC Universe

Nairavoice · Oct 31, 2026 · 6 min read

DC Studios’ newest project is set to bring one of the strangest villains in comic books to life like never before. A new mockumentary series will put DC’s greatest ape on trial in the court of public opinion in The People v. Gorilla Grodd, which will be DC’s next live-action TV project arriving in 2027. Collider’s Steve Weintraub caught up with star Skyler Gisondo at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia.

Gisondo debuted as Clark Kent’s pal, Jimmy Olsen, in 2025’s Superman, and he’s set to reprise that role in the new comedy series, which will see him investigate the case of Gorilla Grodd (Jimmy Tatro). Grodd, who was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino in 1959’s Flash #106, hails from Gorilla City, a nation-state of gorillas who were given super-intelligence and mental powers by a crashed alien spaceship. Unlike his peaceful compatriots, the megalomaniacal Grodd uses his powers in the pursuit of world domination. The series was announced earlier this year, and Gisondo has an exciting filming update: “We’re done. We just wrapped a couple of weeks ago, and…yeah. It’s in the can, man.”

Gisondo wasn’t sure how much he could say about the series without getting fired or in trouble, but he was effusive in his praise for the series’ creators, American Vandal veterans Dan Perrault and Tony Yascenda. He promised a series that takes a look at the DC Universe in a way that’s never been seen before:

“I can say it’s Dan Perrault and Tony Yascenda who are so brilliant, some of my favorite writers and filmmakers…they did, like, American Vandal, which is such a lights-out show, that first season’s like ten out of ten. They were the perfect guys for the job. This is like an approach to this world that we have not seen. I’m excited to see how it all shapes up.”
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“I can say it’s Dan Perrault and Tony Yascenda who are so brilliant, some of my favorite writers and filmmakers…they did, like, American Vandal, which is such a lights-out show, that first season’s like ten out of ten. They were the perfect guys for the job. This is like an approach to this world that we have not seen. I’m excited to see how it all shapes up.”

Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger
for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it
would cost you to stay.

You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are
loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the
room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.

The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and
reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process.
You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the
real entry requirement here.
The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement,
usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building.
When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.

You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The
X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something
in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.

This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being
wanted gone by the same people they keep saving.
You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will
not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable.
The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else
to go and are never once asked to explain themselves.
You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.

You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are
the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an
inconvenient side effect.

Every Titan is somebody’s sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the
villain of the week, is what the team is actually about.
You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you,
which is far less lonely than being the only one.
The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more
honest model of growing up than any other team here manages.
The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.

You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a
while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people
in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.

The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage,
patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences.
You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed
not to mention.
This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged
people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean.
You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.

What’s Next for Skyler Gisondo?

Gisondo was at the festival as one of its annual Breaking Big honorees, an award bestowed on a group of up-and-coming actors. Other honorees this year include Adia (Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother), India Amarteifio (Clarissa), Jalen Thomas Brooks (Off Campus), Summer H. Howell (Carrie), and fellow DC Studios star Tom Rhys Harries (Clayface). Gisondo’s star is certainly on the rise; after an acclaimed turn in the Lance Oppenheim docudrama Primetime, he’s set to star in the comedy sequel Focker-In-Law this holiday season as the son of Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) and fiancé of Olivia Jones (Ariana Grande). He’ll also lend his voice to Shrek 5 next year as one of the sons of the title character. In addition to The People v. Gorilla Grodd, he’ll return as Jimmy Olsen in next year’s silver-screen superhero slugfest Man of Tomorrow.