{"id":941543,"date":"2026-10-22T02:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941543\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T02:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:34:08","slug":"hbo-dipping-back-into-the-bat-villain-well-with-a-live-action-poison-ivy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941543\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO dipping back into the Bat-villain well with a live-action Poison Ivy show"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years back\u2014presumably around the time Joker\u00a0was busy becoming one of the least probable billion-dollar movies of all time\u2014folks at Warner Bros. figured out that there\u2019s serious money in them thar Batman villain hills. How else are we to explain the absolute glut of studio projects focused on comicsdom\u2019s most famous Rogues Gallery that\u2019s rolled out since? Heroes like Batgirl might get tossed in the tax write-off dustbin, but Clayface<\/a> and The Penguin<\/a> have all gotten starring roles over the last few years\u2014a fascination that\u2019s now been extended to everybody\u2019s favorite femme fatale ecoterrorist, Poison Ivy.<\/p>\n

This is per\u00a0THR<\/a>, which reports that the recently-purchased studio is pushing forward with development of a live-action Poison Ivy\u00a0show, complete with reports that Lauren LeFranc, showrunner on\u00a0The Penguin, might sign on to serve as a producer. (To be clear, those same reports note that, unlike that series, this one won\u2019t be set in Matt Reeves\u2019 aggressively grounded\u00a0The Batman franchise.) The series would be the first TV or film project to focus solely on the semi-nefarious Dr. Pamela Isley, who\u2019s gotten recent boosts in popularity from both a prominent appearance in DC\u2019s animated Harley Quinn\u00a0show\u2014which cemented years of subtext by making Ivy and its lead character an actual item\u2014and through a recent series of high-profile runs in the comics, especially G. Willow Wilson\u2019s body horror-heavy run on the character that started in 2023.<\/p>\n

Ivy\u2019s one of those characters who\u2019s come into and out of vogue over the years, as aspects of her character have become more or less in line with modern tastes; her initial \u201cevil sexpot\u201d persona, which was highlighted with Uma Thurman\u2019s performance in 1997\u2019s\u00a0Batman And Robin<\/a>, has mostly fallen out of favor in recent years. But her self-appointed role as the extremist guardian of the natural world, venting her rage against humanity\u2019s environmental carnage with giant plant monsters and deadly viruses, has only become more relevant. There\u2019s no word yet on which aspects of the character will be highlighted for the series, which is still apparently in its early planning stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple of years back\u2014presumably around the time Joker\u00a0was busy becoming one of the least probable billion-dollar movies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-941543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}