The artist and co-creator behind The Boys is set to bring another superhero property to the screen. He joins a project that aims to fuse Eastern and Western sensibilities into a single, sprawling franchise. The news landed as The Boys ended the fifth and final season on Prime Video.
Darick Robertson joins new superhero TV show
The Boys’ Darick Robertson has signed on as a co-producer and writer for Crestar and the Knight Stallion, a Detroit-rooted superhero universe developed by Exxodus Pictures. The franchise is the brainchild of Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad, Abdallah Jasim, and Najam Syed.
They have pitched it as “the first truly East meets West superhero universe developed for a global audience.” The story pulls its heroes from Detroit and neighbouring Dearborn, Michigan. Crestar, a hardened vigilante who operates as the self-styled Guardian of Detroit, stumbles upon a young man named Ali who might just be the world’s first actual superhuman (via Deadline).
He trains Ali to join his crusade against systemic corruption and violence. Ali eventually suits up as the Knight Stallion, caught between rooftop battles and the pressures of his Arab-American household. Crestar, meanwhile, has no family to speak of — a void the creators suggest is as defining as any superpower.
The blueprint will look familiar to anyone who followed The Boys from its grimy comic book origins to its dominance on Prime Video. Two Crestar and the Knight Stallion graphic novels are already there: The Legend Begins and Devil’s Night, the latter penned by Robertson himself, and now a live-action television series is in active development.
Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad, who co-created the franchise, will also star as Crestar. Abdallah Jasim, a comedian, producer, and digital creator, co-created the property and will play Knight Stallion. The creative team spans the U.S. and the Middle East, a structure meant to bake authenticity into the project rather than bolt it on later.
The tone, per the creators, aims to sidestep genre rigidity. They describe the live-action series as a superhero action-adventure that “blends and bends genres” and juggles “the hilarious and the heroic, the horrific and the heartfelt.” Now fans will have to wait for the release date update.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on SuperHeroHype.com.
