Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship to develop a Naomi DC comics series for The CW
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The CW’s Arrowverse is set to get a little young blood injected into its increasingly aging veins, with Variety reporting that Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship are teaming up to potentially bring a series based on DC Comics character Naomi to the multiverse. Blankenship is best known for her tenure on Arrow itself, where she eventually rose to the rank of executive producer, while DuVernay—in addition to her long list of credits as a director—has carved out a comfortable niche for herself in TV in recent years with shows like Queen Sugar. (She’s also a noted comic book nerd, having signed on for the presumably still-in-the-works-somewhere New Gods movie with Warner Bros.)
