“DC Studios is unprecedented”Saffron said. “It is an entity and independent production studio. It is the first time that everything related to DC (film, television, live action, animation, games) is centralized under one creative vision, that of James and mine.
The plan, Safran and Gunn said, was to release roughly two movies and two TV series per year in the DCU. However, that result will not sacrifice quality to meet deadlines. Gunn and Safran insisted that movies and series won’t go into production until the scripts are finished, which isn’t the norm for expensive tentpoles that need to raise awareness by planting flags on the calendar. Still, the list the co-leaders announced Monday will run through 2027. Only “Superman: Legacy” Y “The Batman Part II” They have set release dates.
Movies announced for the new DC Universe
“Superman: Legacy”
Scheduled for release on July 11, 2025, “Superman: Legacy” will mark “the beginning of the DCU,” as Safran put it, but it won’t be an origin story for the Man of Steel.
“It focuses on Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing,” Safran said. “He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way. It’s kindness in a world that thinks kindness is old-fashioned.” Gunn is writing the project, and Safran said he hopes Gunn “maybe he can be persuaded to direct it as well.”
“The Authority”
“Superman: Legacy” will lead directly into “The Authority,” an ensemble film about superhumans who take a less-than-idealistic approach to saving the world.
Gunn spoke at length about “The Authority,” a project he said he’s “very excited” to bring to life. The characters hail from Wildstorm, which launched in 1992 as an independent entity under current DC Comics head Jim Lee, and eventually made a mark on DC. The Wildstorm characters were later incorporated into the main DC comics universe when the company rebooted its continuity with the New 52 initiative in 2011. Gunn said that he and Safran intend to do the same for the Wildstorm characters in the DCU.
“The Brave and the Bold”
In addition to introducing the DCU’s version of Batman, which will exist separately from the version played by Robert Pattinson in the “The Batman” movies, “The Brave and the Bold” will introduce “the Bat family,” Gunn said. The first of these is Robin, who returns fully to live-action movies for the first time since 1997’s ill-fated “Batman and Robin.”
This version of Robin is Damian Wayne; Gunn described him as “our favorite Robin”. Damian is the biological son of Bruce Wayne, a fact unknown to Wayne for the first eight or ten years of Damian’s life. “It’s kind of a very weird father-son story about the two of them,” Gunn said.
“Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow”
Based on King’s 2021 and 2022 comics of the same title, “Woman of Tomorrow” features Superman’s cousin Kara Zor-El, who, as Gunn explained, “is a very different type of Supergirl.”
“We see the difference between Superman, who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from a baby, versus Supergirl, who was raised on a shard of Kryptonian rock, and watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible for the first 14 years of his life.”
Swamp Thing
“Swamp Thing” will “investigate the dark origins of the Swamp Thing,” said Safran, through the prism of horror. “This is a much scarier movie, but we will still have the Swamp Thing interacting with the other characters,” she added.
Series announced for the new DC Universe
Creature Commandos
This animated series for HBO Max is the first project approved by Safran and Gunn, who wrote each episode. The show is already in production.
The Creature Commando characters were first released in 1980. The premise features Frankenstein’s monster teaming up with a werewolf, a vampire, and a gorgon to fight the Nazis in World War II. It doesn’t seem like Gunn’s version takes the same approach: Weasel, one of the characters in Gunn’s 2021 film “The Suicide Squad,” is one of the Commandos, along with Rick Flag’s father, Rick Flag Sr.
“waller”
With Gunn focused on “Superman: Legacy” for the foreseeable future, “Peacemaker” season 2 has been put on hold. Instead, the “‘Peacemaker’ team” will appear alongside Viola Davis as a “continuation” to that show, Gunn said, which (spoiler alert for “Peacemaker” season 1) ended with Waller’s daughter, Leota Adebayo. (Danielle Brooks), introducing Task Force X. (aka the Suicide Squad) and Waller’s role in bringing it to the world.
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Lanterns
Of all the TV series, Safran and Gunn seemed most excited about “Lanterns,” which Safran described as “a great HBO-quality event” that is “very much in the vein of ‘True Detective’.”
The show will focus on two of the best known members of the Green Lantern Corps: Hal Jordan (the test pilot first played on screen by Ryan Reynolds in 2011’s “Green Lantern”) and John Stewart (an ex-Marine and one of DC’s first black superheroes), who are investigating a mystery that Safran says “plays a huge role in leading us into the main story we’re telling in our movies and TV.”
Paradise Lost
This “Game of Thrones-esque story,” Safran said, is set on the island of Themyscira before the birth of Diana (aka Wonder Woman).
“It’s really about the political intrigue behind an all-woman society,” Safran said.
Gunn added: “How did that happen? What is the origin of an island of all women? What are the beautiful truths and the ugly truths behind it all? And how are the intrigues between the different power players in that society?
Booster Gold
While he may not be familiar to casual DC fans, the character, also known as Mike Carter, is a fan-favorite among devoted readers. Safran called Booster “a loser from the future who uses basic future technology to come back to the present and pretend to be a superhero.”
In the 25th century, Mike is a disgraced former football star who uses a time machine on display at the Metropolis Space Museum.
Gunn added, “Basically, ‘Booster Gold’ is imposter syndrome as a superhero.”
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