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Sneak Peek: A New Rockstars Podcast

DCU FUTURE: Batman, Warner Bros Sale, Jimmy Olsen Spinoff

Sneak Peek: A New Rockstars Podcast

New Rockstars & Studio71

Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.7636 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Is the future of the DC Universe in jeopardy with the coming Warner Bros sale? What is this Jimmy Olsen spinoff series? Welcome back to the Sneak Peek, the weekly podcast on New Rockstars that looks ahead to the future of fandom! This week, Erik Voss and Brandon Barrick talk about the newly announced Jimmy Olsen Gorilla Grodd series, and how that could explore DC villains and other characters across Metropolis and Gotham City. How will the Gotham of the DCU be different, and what does that tell us about the DCU Batman? And how certain is James Gunn's reign at DC Studios if Warner Bros sells to another buyer? Written by: Erik Voss Head of Content & Executive Producer: Erik Voss General Manager: Zach Huddleston Head of Production: John Costa Senior Producer: Jessica Clemons Producer: Gina Ippolito Staff Editors: Abby Freel, Brian M Kim, Joshua Steven Hurd Studio Tech: Brian M Kim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm a little worried that like people won't take this seriously if it's like Gorilla Grod sitting in like a director's chair like where do I clip the lapel mic. Do we think that they could introduce the Batman of the DC? No way, no way. Do you think they reference like the Bat Signal? Do they go to Gotham? They will reference Gotham. They could go to Gotham. That might be interesting. I do think DC crime has got to be a placeholder title. I agree with you.

0:24.2

It's too

0:24.5

meta. Yeah. So what do we think the name of the show will be? Jimmy's jailers.

0:29.1

He got it. Welcome back to new rock stars. The future of the DC universe is coming into focus as

0:34.4

DC Crime. A Jimmy Olson Daily Planet Gorilla Grods spin-off series

0:39.4

is coming to HBO.

0:41.0

Will this show, along with whatever James Gunn

0:43.3

is planning with Checkmate,

0:44.9

be essentially DC's Agents of Shield,

0:47.8

an agents of Shield that is actually watched

0:50.5

by the head of the studio.

0:51.8

Whoa, how dare you.

0:54.1

And where is Mr. Terrific in this

0:56.1

update, Mr. Gunn? Yeah. Where is he? Where is he? This is the sneak peek, the weekly show on

1:02.3

new rock stars where we look ahead to the future of fandom. We are Eric Boss and Brandon Barrick.

1:07.0

And we are happy to be here. Good to have you here in particular. We've missed you. It's always wonderful to have you here. So we don't have an Ebert and Roper screen to kind of turn back or Siskel and Ebert. Let's look at the highlights from our past. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, there's the little dancing cursor that I thought was in my brain. Should have never grown this mustache. So here's what

1:29.1

we're going to do. We're talking DC News this week. Variety reported that DC studios and HBO Max

1:34.6

are developing a fictional true crime series set in the DC universe titled DC Crime. The show would

1:41.0

be presented as a true crime docu series that would be hosted by

1:44.6

Jimmy Olson, Skylar Gazondo.

1:46.6

The first season would focus on Gorilla Grod, a DC villain best known for his battles

1:51.2

with the Flash.

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