With the advent of sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, more and more artists are getting the chance to create things outside of the usual areas, such as network television. Writer-director Hisonni Johnson (Fight Night Legacy) is joining in with a new approach to the origin story of Richard Grayson, aka Nightwing (previously the first Robin), in his new series Grayson: Earth One.
Below you can watch the first episode. But first here's the blurb from the series producers:
Grayson: Earth One season one is a non profit six episode season dedicated to exploring the origin story of the DC character known as Nightwing (Stephen McCain) — but with a twist. The twist being that Richard Grayson has never had the good fortune of being adopted as a child by Bruce Wayne, thus never becoming the boy wonder. Instead, we have a Richard Grayson that had to fend for himself on the unforgiving streets of Gotham and, even worse, the streets of Bludhaven. A character that has to overcome years of dog eat dog mentality to become a selfless and kind individual. To ultimately fulfill his destiny and become a HERO.
Of course, changing that single event within Richard Grayson’s life sends a ripple across the entire DC universe. It changes the history of characters such as Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Helena Bertinelli and their adversaries too.
Why is change a good thing? Simply put, we wanted to tell a story that involves characters that are beloved, but also wanted a story that the audience could not predict based its iconic source material. We would also love to attract people that had no previous interest in the comic book world by grounding these characters into situations that they could relate to. We look forward to creating a new fan base following these awesome comic book characters that we grew up with!
Here are couple of posters to check out too...
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Below you can watch the first episode. But first here's the blurb from the series producers:
Grayson: Earth One season one is a non profit six episode season dedicated to exploring the origin story of the DC character known as Nightwing (Stephen McCain) — but with a twist. The twist being that Richard Grayson has never had the good fortune of being adopted as a child by Bruce Wayne, thus never becoming the boy wonder. Instead, we have a Richard Grayson that had to fend for himself on the unforgiving streets of Gotham and, even worse, the streets of Bludhaven. A character that has to overcome years of dog eat dog mentality to become a selfless and kind individual. To ultimately fulfill his destiny and become a HERO.
Of course, changing that single event within Richard Grayson’s life sends a ripple across the entire DC universe. It changes the history of characters such as Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Helena Bertinelli and their adversaries too.
Why is change a good thing? Simply put, we wanted to tell a story that involves characters that are beloved, but also wanted a story that the audience could not predict based its iconic source material. We would also love to attract people that had no previous interest in the comic book world by grounding these characters into situations that they could relate to. We look forward to creating a new fan base following these awesome comic book characters that we grew up with!
Here are couple of posters to check out too...
