1 month ago | By GameInformer
Warner Bros. Discovery revealed last year that Guardians of the Galaxy and Peacemaker director James Gunn and Aquaman producer Peter Safran had been hired to lead as co-CEOs of DC Studios. Since that reveal, DC fans have speculated what Gunn and Safran's new DCU, as the duo is calling the new DC cinematic universe, will look like in the coming years.
Gunn has teased on Twitter multiple times that he, Safran, and others were formulating their long-spanning plan for the DCU and now, today, the duo has pulled back the curtain on the first 10 projects. All 10 of these projects, which span...
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1 month ago | By GameSpot
After an uneven couple of years trying to build the next big cinematic universe, Warner Bros. is essentially hitting the reset key on the DC Universe and starting over from scratch with a small but focused slate of films and TV projects. Led by Co-Chairmen and CEOs of DC Studios, James Gunn and Peter Safran, the first ten DC Studios projects-five movies and five HBO Max TV series-are all set in the same universe and will see comic book icons star alongside a squad lesser-known anti-heroes, a con artist from the future, intergalactic cops, and Gotham's best vigilantes. Matt Reeves will...
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1 month ago | By GamesRadar
Though new actors are being cast in James Gunn and Peter Safran's new DC universe, Ezra Miller may not be out as The Flash after all. Miller has previously appeared as The Flash in Justice League and Zack Snyder's Justice League , and will reprise their role in Andy Muschietti's blockbuster summer film. "Ezra is completely committed to their recovery. We're fully supportive of that journey that they're on right now," said Peter Safran. "When the time is right, when they feel they are ready to have the discussion, we'll all figure out what the best way forward is. But right now, they are...
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1 month ago | By GeekTyrant
It's a huge day for James Gunn and Peter Safran as they have revealed their plans for the first slate of DC Studios films, which is being called Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters. Those projects include Superman: Legacy, The Brave and the Bold, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Paradise Lost, Booster Gold, Lanterns, The Authority, Creature Commandos, Waller , and Swamp Thing. You can read all of the details on those projects here. The projects will spin out of the events of the upcoming Flash movie, which will be a soft reboot for the DC Universe, but Aquaman and Blue Beetle , among others, will...
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1 month ago | By Digital Trends
James Gunn and Peter Safran unveiled the first slate of upcoming projects for DC Studios, including The Batman Part II and Superman: Legacy.
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1 month ago | By GeekTyrant
DC Studios just shared its upcoming slate of films and TV shows that will be developed under the direction of James Gunn and Peter Safran. It's quite a list, but there's another movie that DC fans have been excited about that is separate from what Gunn and Safran are working on. That project is the sequel to Matt Reeves ' The Batman , which is now officially titled The Batman - Part II. During the big DC Studios event, it was announced that The Batman - Part II will be released in theaters on October 3, 2025. It's a long way to go, but it's coming! Gunn and Safran shared their excitement...
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1 month ago | By GameSpot
Co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn announced Paradise Lost, a live-action television show about the Amazons of Themyscira aka Paradise Island, as part of the upcoming DC Universe slate. In a video describing upcoming film and television projects for the DCU, Gunn described Paradise Lost, "It's almost like Game of Thrones... but with all the inhabitants of Paradise Island." Via this description the show will be a mystical drama, with massive battles and political intrigue. Themyscria has been a setting in live action DC films before, like in Wonder Woman and both versions of Justice League...
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1 month ago | By GamesRadar
DC Studios has unveiled the full slate of what it's calling DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters. The new line-up features 10 brand-new shows and movies, based on some familiar characters, as well as some more obscure choices. James Gunn and Peter Safran have been teasing their 10-year plan ever since the pair took over as joint DC Studios CEOs at the end of 2022. Since then, we've had some major leaks, including Henry Cavill's exit as Superman as well as the scrapping of Wonder Woman 3. The new line-up shows they're focusing on rebooting and revamping many aspects of the existing DC...
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1 month ago | By CNET
The superhero studio's new boss lays out his plans.
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1 month ago | By GameSpot
James Gunn and DC have unveiled their first big steps for the rebooted DC Universe that will unfold across the next several years. But not every series is getting reset. Both The Batman 2 and Joker 2, according to Gunn, will continue and be clearly labeled as "DC Elseworlds." This allows DC to both reboot and reconnect its many sometimes disparate franchises while also still giving the necessary breathing room to some of its big successes in recent years. In a video shared to Twitter, Gunn also named Teen Titans Go as another such Elseworlds project, and it may stand to reason that more...
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1 month ago | By GameSpot
During the round of announcements that James Gunn revealed for the new slate of the DC Universe movies and television series saw some of the most famous characters in the DC pantheon return to the big screen once again, including Swamp Thing and Supergirl. The last Supergirl film was in the 1980's following the success of Christopher Reeves' Superman movies starring Helen Slater (who went on to voice other DC characters like Talia al-Ghul on Batman: The Animated Series). Here are just a few of our plans. Up, up, and away! DCStudios DCU DCComics pic.twitter.com/8XNDNLUEPq - James Gunn...
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1 month ago | By GameSpot
DC Studio co-head James Gunn has commented on the situation surrounding actor Henry Cavill and how he will not be returning to play Superman in the next film, Superman Legacy. At an event attended by The Hollywood Reporter , Gunn said Cavill was not the right fit for the story Gunn wanted to tell with the next Superman film. "We didn't fire Henry. Henry was never cast," Gunn said. "For me, it's about who do I want to cast as Superman and who do the filmmakers we have want to cast. And for me, for this story, it isn't Henry." Gunn said he is a fan of Cavill's and believes he is a "great...
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1 month ago | By GamesRadar
James Gunn and Peter Safran have unveiled more details from their new DC slate - and as part of that update, The Batman 2 finally has a title and release date. The sequel to Matt Reeves's The Batman is simply titled The Batman Part II and will be arriving on October 3, 2025. That means we'll be heading back to the dark streets of Gotham just in time for Halloween, which fits Batman's spooky aesthetic perfectly. Plot details are still firmly under wraps, but we do know that the Penguin spin-off starring Colin Farrell will directly set-up the sequel. "There's actually a whole little fabric...
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1 month ago | By Forbes
James Gunn and Peter Safran are ready to start talking about their enormous DC slate deemed “Chapter 1,” which includes major and minor DC characters as they look to move on from the DCEU and Arrowverse alike across movies and TV.
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1 month ago | By GeekTyrant
After months of wondering and speculating what James Gunn and Peter Safran have been planning for DC Studios, they have revealed the first slate of film and TV projects in the pipeline, and some of them are pretty exciting! We already knew that Superman and Batman were going to play a big role in the new plans and the two films announced with those characters are titled Superman: Legacy , which is being written by Gunn, and Batman: The Brave and The Bold , which will feature both Batman and Robin. Superman: Legacy will be released on July 11th, 2025. Wonder Woman is also getting a new...
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1 month ago | By GameSpot
The newly formed DC Studios recently announced a large slate of 10 projects for film and television. Among the heavy hitters like Wonder Woman and Batman & Robin, studio heads James Gunn and Peter Safran announced a hybrid animated/live action series for HBO Max titled Creature Commandos. The series is already in production, and every episode was written by Gunn. Here are just a few of our plans. Up, up, and away! DCStudios DCU DCComics pic.twitter.com/8XNDNLUEPq - James Gunn January 31, 2023 Based on the comic book characters first introduced in an issue of Weird War Tales, Creature...
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1 month ago | By GameSpot
One of DC's brightest and most opportunistic heroes is about to make a big return, as Booster Gold is getting his own TV series. Announced as part of the new DC Universe film and television initiative being led by James Gunn and Peter Safran, this will be a comedy series, with Gunn describing it as "imposter syndrome as a superhero." Here are just a few of our plans. Up, up, and away! DCStudios DCU DCComics pic.twitter.com/8XNDNLUEPq - James Gunn January 31, 2023 A fan-favorite character, Safran added that Booster is "a loser from the future who uses basic future technology to come back to...
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1 month ago | By GameSpot
One of DC's most iconic heroes is getting a reboot with a TV show under the new continuity. Lanterns was announced as part of the new slate under the leadership of James Gunn and Peter Safran, and it will focus on two of the most famous Green Lanterns in DC continuity: Hal Jordan and John Stewart. Variety reports that Lanterns aims to be an HBO-quality event, and Safran compared it to True Detective. The two will pair up to investigate a mystery that "plays a really big role leading us into the main story that we're telling across our film and television." As part of this announcement...
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1 month ago | By GameSpot
As the DC Universe begins a new era that is being spearheaded by James Gunn and Peter Safran, one of the surprise announcements today was The Authority, a comic from the Wildstorm publishing imprint. This project is still very early in development and is currently being written, although Gunn declined to reveal who the scriptwriter is. Here are just a few of our plans. Up, up, and away! DCStudios DCU DCComics pic.twitter.com/8XNDNLUEPq - James Gunn January 31, 2023 "It isn't just a story of heroes and villains, and not every movie and TV show is going to be about good guy versus bad guy...
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1 month ago | By GamesRadar
A new Batman and Robin movie has been announced as part of James Gunn and Peter Safran's new DC slate. Via Deadline , Chapter One, titled "Gods and Monsters," will include a new film called The Brave and the Bold. The movie will Batman and his son, Damian Wayne, as Robin, who according to Gunn is "a little son of a bitch." “Assassin, murderer who Batman takes on, who is Batman's actual son that he doesn't know exists for the first 8-10 years of his life...it's a strange father and son story about the two of them and based on Grant Morrison's run of the Batman," he explained. Batman and...
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