David Jenkins said Friday that his Booster Gold series will not be moving forward at DC Studios and HBO Max, putting his version of the project on hold just after he had turned in the pilot script. In a post on Threads, Jenkins wrote that his “Booster Gold” would not be moving forward.
The timing matters because Jenkins had only recently handed in the script, on June 15, and had called it one of his favorite pilot scripts. His comment on BlueSky was upbeat then; by Thursday, he was posting that he had “lost the thread” and did not understand the objective of a streamer anymore. The shift gives the cancellation note a sharper edge than a routine development update. It reads like the end of one path for the show, not the end of the character.
That distinction is important because Booster Gold was one of the first projects James Gunn announced for DC Studios’ first chapter, Gods and Monsters. Peter Safran described the premise as “a loser from the future who uses basic future technology to come back to today and pretend to be a superhero,” while Gunn called it “basically Imposter Syndrome as a superhero.” The series was set to follow Michael Carter, the DC superhero created by Dan Jurgens in 1986.
Yet Jenkins’ message does not close the door on the property itself. The project will still move forward at DC Studios with a new creative team, even though no actor had been cast. That leaves the cleanest reading of Friday’s announcement: Jenkins is out, the show is not dead, and DC Studios now has to decide who takes over a project that has already lived through one major reset before the cameras ever rolled.
For viewers and for DC Studios, the unresolved question is no longer whether Booster Gold exists. It is when the next team is named and whether the new version can keep the same offbeat pitch that made it one of the early DCU announcements in the first place.
