"I took on a role at DCE because I love the characters and this universe more than anything. But, I want to spend my days writing and on set," Johns said Monday in a statement. "I’m thrilled to get back to a more hands-on creative role. It’s a dream job on dream projects, reaching even deeper into DC’s vast pantheon of characters."
One of Johns' first projects will be
Green Lantern Corps, based on DC’s intergalactic police heroes, which he is already very familiar with, having spent nine years writing
Green Lantern comics and its spinoffs and publishing events. Johns will write the screenplay and act as one of the producers on the feature film. He is already writing and producing
Wonder Woman 2and will have a co-writing and executive producing credit on
Aquaman, this year's only DC offering, which is set to open in December.
"Geoff is a super-talented writer and truly embedded in the DC Universe and its characters," said Emmerich. "We’re thrilled that he’s returning to his passion and his roots as a writer and producer. And, it’s even better that he’s staying in our Warner Bros. family. We look forward to working with him on
Green Lantern and other projects going forward."
On the television side, Johns co-developed and is executive producing (alongside Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Jeremy Carver) and writing on
Titans, the first original series for the upcoming DC Universe digital service. Johns also wrote the
Titans episode "Doom Patrol" that it is spinning out into its own 13-episode original series for the digital service.
On the publishing side, Johns will write and curate a DC pop-up label under the moniker The Killing Zone, focusing on new and lesser-known or dormant DC characters and titles. He will also write a new
Shazamcomic series, scheduled to bow this fall, as well as a comic titled
Three Jokers, drawn by Jason Fabok. The latter was a project that was sidelined as Johns’ time was taken up by executive and screen commitments.
“Geoff is one of DC Comics’ most prolific writers, and we can’t wait to see what he does next now that he will be dedicating 100 percent of his time to telling the best DC stories possible across all media," said DiDio and Lee.
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