DC presents 10 movies and collection
DC Studios Co-Chairs and CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran have unveiled their first slate of latest tasks and defined how a brand new slate of movies and TV exhibits will supply a unified method to DC’s storytelling.
Consisting of ten tasks as half of what is going to be known as “Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters” (and never the whole thing of Chapter 1, in keeping with Gunn), it will introduce audiences to a totally unified method to DC movies and exhibits.
Virtually every little thing that’s launched will happen in the identical universe and inform a coherent story. Gunn says: “We’ll promise that every little thing will likely be unified from our first venture. No person cared in regards to the coin, they only gave away IP like they had been social gathering favors for all of the creators who smiled at them.
Concerning casting modifications, Gunn says, “A number of the characters that we do we modify — that is a multiverse — a number of the characters we use the identical actors.” Any animated venture may additionally get a live-action model, and that is why the casting takes care of that.
The ten tasks are as follows. Launch dates embody, the place disclosed:
Creature instructions (animated collection)
An in-production animated TV collection primarily based on the comedian e-book of the identical identify, bringing vampires, werewolves and zombies to the DC Universe. Weasel from The Suicide Squad and Rick Flagg Sr. are concerned. Gunn wrote all seven episodes himself.
Waller (reside motion TV collection)
Viola Davis will reprise her function as Amanda Waller in a TV collection centered on her character. The collection will fall “between” the primary and second seasons of Peacemaker, with Peacemaker season 2 being delayed. Chrystal Henry (“Watchmen”) and Jeremy Carver (“Doom Patrol”) write.
Superman Legacy (Film – July 11, 2025)
Safran says “that is actually the start of the DCU” and is presently being written by Gunn. He says, “It isn’t an origin story, it focuses on Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage together with his human upbringing… He is kindness in a world that sees kindness as old style.”
Lanterns (Dwell Motion TV Sequence)
Greg Berlanti is changed by Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine, a earlier house opera-style collection billed as a large HBO-quality True Detective-style TV occasion. Safran says, “It is terrestrial, it has two of our favourite Inexperienced Lanterns, Hal Jordan and John Stewart, star[ring] in a True Detective fashion crime thriller and it performs a very large function that leads into the primary story that we inform in our movie and tv.”
The Authority (film)
Based mostly on the comedian e-book by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, this movie will deliver characters from DC’s Wildstorm imprint into the DCU.
Paradise Misplaced (TV Sequence)
Gunn and Safran plan to construct the world of the Amazons with the TV collection, which will likely be set on Themiscyra earlier than the beginning of Diana and can comply with the political intrigues of an all-female society. Says Safran, “It should be a Sport of Thrones-like story about Themiscyra… and in regards to the political intrigues behind an all-women’s society.” Gunn provides, “What’s the origin of an island of all ladies? What are the attractive truths and the ugly truths behind all this, and what’s the intrigue between the varied powers that be on this society?”
The Courageous and the Daring (movie)
Based mostly on Grant Morrison’s Batman run, this introduces Batman/Bruce Wayne from the DCU and the Bat-Household together with Damian Wayne. Gunn calls it a “unusual father-son story” and it is separate from Robert Pattinson’s Batman within the Matt Reeves movies (which can fall beneath the Elseworlds class outdoors of this continuity).
“This introduces the DCU Batman, Bruce Wayne, and in addition introduces our favourite Robin, Damian Wayne, who’s a little bit of a whore killer,” Gunn stated of the movie. Batman did not know Damian existed for the primary 8-10 years of his life, and Gunn describes this as “a really odd father-son factor” in regards to the duo.
Booster Gold (Dwell Motion TV Sequence)
Says Safran, “It is a couple of future loser who comes again to in the present day with fundamental future know-how and pretends to be a superhero.”
Supergirl: Tomorrow’s Girl (film)
Based mostly on Tom King’s comedian e-book collection, the movie will introduce “an entire completely different breed” of characters. Gunn says, “In ours [DCU] We see the distinction between Superman, who was despatched to Earth and raised by loving dad and mom since he was an toddler, and Supergirl, who grew up on a rock fall off Krypton and watched everybody round her die horribly and had been killed for the primary 14 years of their lives.”
The Swamp Factor (film)
The movie explores “the darkish origins” of Swamp Factor and can replicate the sonic variety of the brand new DC. It’s known as a horror movie and the one that can shut this primary chapter.
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— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 31, 2023
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