Now in the course of a surprise DC Fandome panel about Milestone Media, Oscar nominated filmmaker Reginald Hudlin uncovered that a Static Shock motion picture was in enhancement as element of DC’s revitalizing the imprint which is devoted to African American voices.

No other unique details or expertise attachments ended up unveiled about the Static Shock motion picture, but Hudlin is involved with increasing the creative franchise that is Milestone Media, which released in 1993 recognized for superheros like Icon, Rocket and Static Shock. Milestone’s return to publishing will be led by an all-new Static Shock digital comedian sequence scheduled for February 2021. Foreseeable future choices will incorporate a Static Shock unique graphic novel written by Hudlin with artwork by Kyle Baker, plus the return of Milestone heroes Icon & Rocket, also created by Hudlin with art by Cowan and a lot more to be introduced.

“We’re speaking with other divisions at Warner Bros, even individuals in animated about doing (Milestone Media) element films, and we’re also included in extending the Milestone characters into new media, like podcasts with a collection of tales on podcast. We want to provide Milestone Media on regardless of what platform you want,” claimed Hudlin.

Static Shock follows a teenage boy, Virgil Hawkins, in the town of Dakota with electrical energy dependent powers, who with the support of his ingenious good friend, fights crime as a superhero. Following walking into an area where chemical containers explode, Hawkins is mutated, gaining powers to create, make, absorb, and manage electric power and magnetism.

Static Shock was an early 2000 animated collection dependent on the comic-ebook that aired the WB Television network’s WB programming block.

Explained Phil LaMarr, who voiced Static Shock on the animated series, and was also on today’s panel, “Virgil is what I usually preferred as a comic e book kid expanding up: Black Spider-Person. A excellent (comedian-ebook) tale can make you live it, feel it, and when it does, it resonates on a total other amount. It was so real globe, and a textured tale taken out from the 1930s ‘We are exhibiting the world’. I felt like it was drawn by any person who lived in a creating I could go into. It touched on archetypes as a comic supporter that I liked, but also touched on my daily life as a Black gentleman in the serious planet.”

Hudlin and LaMarr were also joined by DC Milestone Media co-founder Denys Cowan, DC Publisher and Main Artistic Officer Jim Lee and moderator Marc Bernardin on today’s panel.

Commencing in September as a result of February 2021, DC will digitize basic tales from the Milestone library and make them available for invest in at Comixology, Amazon Kindle, Apple and other collaborating electronic merchants. A list of titles will be declared soon.

On the 2nd element of DC Fandome on Sept. 12, fans will acquire accessibility to Milestone Returns #, a 17-webpage sampler, which will be available to read cost-free for 24 hours. Created by Hudlin with Greg Pak and deal with by Denys Cowan and Chris Sotomayor, the sampler will introduce and re-introduce fans to Milestone figures these kinds of as Static Shock, Icon, Rocket, Duo and other folks. The sampler characteristics artwork by an extraordinary lineup of Talent, like Cowan, Jim Lee, Ryan Benjamin, Khoi Pham, Scott Hanna, Invoice Sienkiewicz, Don Ho, Alex Sinclair and Deron Bennett.