This past week my inbox was filled with alerts that actor Glen Powell is rumored to be in talks with DC Studios for a "big role." (The source is Jeff Sneider's The InSneider.) Obviously, since those alerts are in my inbox, a lot of people are speculating that the speculated role will be Booster Gold. We've been here before.

Back when James Gunn first announced plans for a Booster Gold project in 2023, Glen Powell (still fresh off Top Gun: Maverick) was among the Internet's favorite picks to play the role. When asked, Powell told Entertainment Tonight that he "wouldn't say [he] was educated" about the character but after a little reading had decided that "Booster Gold was really funny." The rumor mill took it from there and decided that Powell was campaigning for the role.

For what it's worth, while the rumor mill seems to have revived the "Glen Powell looks like Booster Gold" story of 2023, what Sneider himself actually insinuated was that Powell might get the starring role in a planned John Constantine movie. However, social media seems really bothered that Powell, an American, might be playing Constantine, a Liverpudlian, apparently forgetting that Keanu Reeves, an American, played Constantine as an American in a 2005 film. At least Powell is blond-adjacent. (But does he smoke?)

Of course, as we all know by now, James Gunn and Peter Safran have, according to The Hollywood Reporter, "stepped down" as the co-heads of DC Studios to be replaced by former Marvel executive Jeremy Latcham. It's anyone's guess what this means for the slate of projects Gunn had announced but had yet to see the light of day, like, say, a Booster Gold project. But my knee-jerk response to the news was in line with Rob Snow, who emailed me "I'm guessing that means a Booster Gold TV show is statistically nil."

So make of all this what you will, Booster boosters. Your guess is at least as good as mine. Maybe Glen Powell will play Booster Gold, maybe not. Maybe Booster Gold will appear in Jeremy Latcham's DCEU, maybe not. Hope for whatever makes you happy. As for me, if Latchem decide he wants to put Booster Gold in a new Hellblazer project, that's fine. Booster Gold has been to hell once and survived. Hollywood can't be that much worse, can it?

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