Booster Gold TV Show 'Won't Be Moving Forward' at DC, Writer Says

It's a sad day for superhero fans, as just hours after actor Mahershala Ali announced he's no longer working on Marvel's Blade, writer David Jenkins confirmed his Booster Gold TV show also "won't be moving forward."

The Our Flag Means Death creator offered an unceremonious conclusion for his long-in-development series adaptation with a post on Threads. It's an announcement that followed months of speculation that the show's demise was near, with Jenkins pointing to Ali's cancelation confirmation as a good example for his feelings.

For now, it's unclear if the project as a whole is dead, or if only Jenkins' version of the show has come to a halt. At the very least, it seems like quite the setback for the DCU.

"My Booster Gold won't be moving forward," he said. "Can't improve on Mahershala's lovely statement so I'll just apply it here as well."

It's curtains for yet another big superhero project, though it's unclear if it could materialize in the future. Jenkins, however, doesn't think he could have said it any better than Ali, who confirmed his Blade movie for the Marvel Cinematic Universe had taken a stake through the heart.

"For whatever reason, that project is not for me," the segment from Ali's interview with GQ before it was shared by Jenkins said. "If they wanted to do it, we would've done it. So I have to move on, and I have moved on.

"Again, you had me under contract, they have billions of dollars, if they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie. I feel ready to move on from the Blade questions. Those questions are for them. They didn't want to do it, so they should answer that question.

DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn previously announced his plan to bring a live-action story based on the witty time traveler during an all-encompassing DCU reveal video back in 2023. It was a moment that had fans hopeful for the future of the company's movie ambitions, but in the years since, we've heard crushingly little about the project.

"Booster Gold is one of comics' really popular cult heroes," Gunn promised at the time. "He is a fascinating guy. He's a loser from the future who uses future technology to come back to the present day and become a superhero, so that people will love him. It is basically the superhero story of imposter syndrome on an HBO Max series."

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