The revamped DC Universe has lastly made its theatrical debut with Superman, starring David Corenswet, releasing to majorly optimistic opinions and setting a brand new field workplace report for live-action Supes movies. However amid the Man of Metal’s return, followers couldn’t assist however marvel when his foil, Batman, would get his personal film set within the DCU. Some folks mechanically assumed that Robert Pattinson’s Batman and Coren-Supes are destined to share the massive display screen down the road within the new DCU, but it surely’s not that straightforward.
See, there are at present two Batman initiatives lurking concerning the Warner Bros. corridors: The Batman Half 2 and a Batman movie tentatively titled The Courageous and the Daring, with the latter revealed again in 2023 throughout a DC Studios announcement.
On the time, Gunn provided a quick synopsis concerning the movie, calling the film the “introduction of the DCU’s Batman” in its Marvel Cinematic Universe-like part, titled Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters.
“The Courageous and the Daring is the story of Batman and his precise son, Damian Wayne,” defined Gunn. “That is primarily based on Grant Morrison’s nice comedian e-book run. Damian Wayne is my favourite Robin; he’s slightly murderer that Batman tries to get in line. So, that is the story concerning the two of them and…the start of the Bat Household within the DCU.”
Extra lately, Gunn supplied an replace about The Courageous and the Daring, telling GamesRadar, “We’re engaged on a script. We’ve a screenwriter who’s hammering away at it. I’m very concerned, and so we’ll see what occurs subsequent. I want I had extra information for you, however I don’t.”
The Flash Director Andy Muschietti has been connected to direct the film, however admitted again in January that he and Gunn hadn’t talked concerning the undertaking since earlier than Superman started filming in June 2024.
“I’ve had conversations with James Gunn concerning the story idea, however we haven’t talked since earlier than Superman started filming,“ Muschietti advised Radio TU.
The one different replace presently relating to The Courageous and the Daring is that James Gunn is working carefully with the movie’s author to “[try] and get it proper,” whereas telling Rolling Stone that the film’s title is secure in the interim.
Elsewhere within the Batman live-action financial system, author and director Matt Reeves beforehand shared information that the script for The Batman: Half 2 has lastly been accomplished, transferring ahead with the second installment within the Patts-Man franchise, separate from the bold cinematic targets kicked off by Superman.
Reeves’ The Batman is its personal standalone trilogy (or Crime Saga, as quite a few DC execs have labeled it) and exists exterior of the newly established DCU (e.g. 2019’s Joker). The Batman’s sole connection is to the critically acclaimed HBO collection, The Penguin, which, once more, exists exterior the DCU.
When Tom Rhys Harries was forged because the lead in DCU’s Clayface, Gunn and Peter Safran, DC Studios co-CEO, tried to clear any confusion relating to the place every upcoming film suits into DC Studios’ “daring ten-year plan.”
“Clayface is completely DCU,” stated Gunn in the course of the DC Studios Presentation earlier this yr, whereas asserting that The Batman isn’t DCU however “below DC Studios.”
“The one factor that’s in Matt’s world, his Crime Saga that he’s telling, is the Batman Trilogy, the Penguin collection, that’s in that lane,” Safran later added. “So nonetheless below DC Studios, nonetheless below us. We’ve an unbelievable relationship with Matt, however these are the one issues…It was necessary that Clayface be a part of the DCU. It’s an origin story for a traditional Batman villain that we need to have in our world.”
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With Superman returning to a extra colourful and optimistic theme, it is smart that followers instantly consider the darkish and gloomy Batman and the way he would work together with Corenswet’s interpretation of the character. At the moment, although, it seems that DCU Batman is years away, and folk should wait a bit for that particular interplay. However who is aware of? One thing may change within the days and weeks forward.
As for now, DCU’s Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow is scheduled to hit theaters on June 26, 2026, and Clayface is about for a 2026 launch.
Matt Reeves’ The Batman Half 2 is about to start filming by the tip of this yr, with the movie scheduled for launch on October 1, 2027.
