Batman and Mister Miracle writer Tom King joins Ava DuVernay's New Gods

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Warner Bros. tapping Ava DuVernay to direct a movie about Jack Kirby’s New Gods characters from DC Comics seemed like a surprising choice, if only because of how unexpectedly awesome it was, and now it looks like she’s brought in a bit of a ringer to help her craft the cinematic adaptation of Kirby’s “Fourth World” stories. As announced on her Twitter page (via Deadline), DuVernay has hired comic writer Tom King to help her write The New Gods, which seems like a pretty smart choice considering King has won awards for his work on his New Gods-adjacent Mister Miracle series and his Batman comics, so he’s not only a guy with a solid familiarity with the DC universe, but with Jack Kirby’s weird corner of the DC universe specifically.