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Ahead of this summer’s release of Superman — its first big screen production — the people behind DC Studios want the world to know that things are continuing to evolve behind the scenes, which will lead to all-new adventures onscreen… including three entirely new animated shows currently in production for younger audiences.

Speaking to press at a closed event earlier this month, DC Studios co-chair Peter Safran said that, prior to the formation of DC Studios, the DC properties were suffering from some confusion from audiences.

“The DC brand was being defined by different creative teams at the company, each was pursuing their own distinct vision of the characters, the story… the result was not one DCU but many. This fracture proved very challenging to consumers and it chipped away at the identity of the brand,” he said, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Since Safran and Gunn came onboard and launched DC Studios, he continued, We’ve unified the brand, we’ve greenlit five theatrical films, made three live action series, and are producing five animated series.”

Five animated series? We already know about Creature Commandos and Harley Quinn, but those are just two shows; where did the five figure come from? That, it turned out, was a cue to announce that three brand-new animated shows described as “younger-skewing” have been greenlit for production:

• My Adventures with Green Lantern, executive produced by Jake Wyatt and Stephanie Gonzaga, which will follow Jessica Cruz as a high-school student who is chosen by a Green Lantern ring, only to be drawn into an intergalactic war that followed the ring to Earth.
• DC Super Powers remains the Justice League as a bunch of students at the Alliance School for Heroes, studying under Principal Martian Manhunter. (The students are Lightning, Flash, Plastic Man, Aquagirl, Green Lantern, and Terra.) Matt Beans executive produces, Michael Chang is supervising producer.
• Starfire comes from My Adventures with Superman executive producer Josie Campbell, who serves the same role here alongside Brianne Drouhard; it reimagines the origins of the Teen Titans character as the Tamaran princess escapes her planet and runs into other characters from the cosmic side of the DCU, including Crush, Lobo’s teenage daughter.

No release dates or even platforms were revealed for the new shows. Keep your eyes on Popverse for the latest on each of these shows, and DC Studios as a whole. Superman flies into theaters July 11.

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