Culpepper

Chronicled through the eyes of former Detective Charles Culpepper of the Gotham City Police Department, Culpepper, a Gotham spinoff, is a reimagined and dangerous origin story revealing the birth of one of the most popular super villains of all time, Darkseid.

Culpepper is a three-season series spinoff of Gotham, which takes place between episodes 99 and 100 of Gotham. Our story tells the reimagined birth of Darkseid and The Consortium’s attempts to kill Superman. It is a dark, highfalutin drama ala’ Billions and Succession, centered around former Detective Culpepper, a character in Gotham Ep. 406, titled “A Dark Knight: Hog Day Afternoon.” In our story, our protagonist Detective Culpepper is “Charles Culpepper” from Action Comics Weekly who becomes a member of The Consortium, a group who believe they must destroy Superman to save the world.

Our dark, reimagined interpretation of events leading up to and culminating with Darkseid’s encounter with Superman from the original Action Comics Weekly series will appeal to the existing Gotham fan base, DC movie and show enthusiasts, and DC comics readers. Our series protagonist is a former character from Gotham. Our story is a clever and complex weave of canonized DC events, with subtle and meaningful Easter eggs. We are strictly loyal to the Gotham series, streamlining elements from the comics and the entire DC universe that will satisfy even the most uncompromising DC loyalists.