News Booster Gold Our Flag Means Death Creator David Jenkins Is Writing the Pilot for a Booster Gold Series No word on who will play this not so super hero. By Molly Templeton | Published on July 23, 2025 Image: Max, by Nicola Dove Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Max, by Nicola Dove This is not, maybe, where Our Flag Means Death fans thought David Jenkins would go next. Deadline reports that Jenkins has been chosen to write the pilot for HBO’s Booster Gold series—and if it gets picked up, he may be the showrunner as well. Booster Gold was one of the ten projects announced in 2023 when James Gunn and Peter Safran took over DC Studios. At the time, Gunn described the character as “imposter syndrome as superhero.” (DC Comics ran a whole blog post about why the character is perfect for DC Studios.) Deadline explains the premise like this: Created by Dan Jurgens, the protagonist, real name Michael Jon “Booster” Carter, is a member of the Justice League born in Gotham City who attends university on a football scholarship. He is expelled for gambling and becomes a superhero, although continues to irritate others with his obsession for fame and wealth. His nickname came via Ronald Reagan after he saved the former POTUS. Reactor Entertainment Editor Emmet Asher-Perrin put it more succinctly: “He’s an idiot who wants to be good at stuff and mostly gets in the way.” Back in February, when Gunn and Safran gave updates on their upcoming projects, Safran mentioned that a previous showrunner had never committed; as The Hollywood Reporter said, “A series on time traveling hero Booster Gold was waiting for a showrunner to make time for it but ‘maybe he fell out of love, maybe he got busy,’ he says, ‘but we had to pivot.’” This would be Jenkins’ second time working with Warner Bros., which owns HBO, which cancelled Our Flag Means Death (pictured above) after only two seasons.[end-mark] The post <i>Our Flag Means Death</i> Creator David Jenkins Is Writing the Pilot for a <i>Booster Gold</i> Series appeared first on Reactor.