James Gunn is an absolute machine. In the time between The Batman Part 1 and Part 2 (2022-2027), Gunn will have released: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (writer/director) Guardians of...
James Gunn is an absolute machine. In the time between The Batman Part 1 and Part 2 (2022-2027), Gunn will have released:
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (writer/director)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (writer/director)
Creature Commandos (writer)
Superman (writer/director)
Peacemaker Season 2 (writer/co-director)
Man of Tomorrow (writer/director)
Not to mention overseeing all the other DCU projects in the works. I wish I had his work ethic and creative drive.
Given their target of 2 films per year, DC's film slate for 2026-2027 looks full now (Supergirl, Clayface, Man of Tomorrow, and The Batman Part II), so it looks like 2028 will be Wonder Woman and The Brave and the Bold.
Unless Brave and the Bold gets canned and the DCU gets merged with the Reevesverse. I actually think Teen Titan is probably more likely than Brave and the Bold. They assigned it to the writer of...
Unless Brave and the Bold gets canned and the DCU gets merged with the Reevesverse. I actually think Teen Titan is probably more likely than Brave and the Bold. They assigned it to the writer of Supergirl (who also got assigned Wonder Woman) and she’s rather efficient.
Yeah it's a weird situation. Publicly, Gunn has been pretty adamant about not merging the Reevesverse and that TBATB is still happening with Muschietti. It's just... strange how long it's taking....
Yeah it's a weird situation. Publicly, Gunn has been pretty adamant about not merging the Reevesverse and that TBATB is still happening with Muschietti. It's just... strange how long it's taking. I think Gunn clearly respects Reeves and the art too much to force a merger but would probably be relieved if Reeves caved. Juggling two live action Batman universes simultaneously is going to risk oversaturation and possibly some confusion with the general audience.
The thing is, as long as Reeves doesn't plan to kill Bruce in Part 3 or end Part 2 on a massive cliffhanger, it shouldn't be a big deal to have Pattinson show up in other DCU projects. The bigger issue would be integrating the batfamily characters -- I'm really curious to see if any of them show up in Part 2.
Also: we know The Penguin series explicitly takes place in 2022, while Superman takes place in 2025. If The Batman Part II and Part III take place before 2025, then the trilogy is effectively a prequel, and Pattinson could show up as an older Batman in, say, Teen Titans or a Justice League movie. Again, though, those kind of timeline shenanigans might cause some confusion. Particularly if Part III doesn't release until 2030.
As for Teen Titans, Gunn has implied it's on the backburner for now since the script is unfinished and Ana Noguiera switched to writing Wonder Woman. Regardless, I don't think there's any way we'd get Teen Titans before DCU Batman debuts (whoever that ends up being).
I think the Reeves movie is too grounded to mesh well with the cartoony nature of the DCU. Like, imagine Pattinson interacting with Krypto or Eagly. Feels off to me. We’ve actually very briefly...
I think the Reeves movie is too grounded to mesh well with the cartoony nature of the DCU. Like, imagine Pattinson interacting with Krypto or Eagly. Feels off to me. We’ve actually very briefly seen the DCU Batman in Dr. Phosphorus’s flashback on Creature Commandos. Ask yourself, does Dr. Phosphorus fit into the Reevesverse? We only have one movie to go off of but there were no Supernatural or Metahuman elements in The Batman. The Riddler, The Penguin, Catwomen, these are all grounded, human characters.
I think there’s plenty of room for both Batmen to exist in their separate films tho. I think we could get a Batman cameo in Man of Tomorrow.
We're about to get a self-serious horror film in the DCU next year with Clayface. Gunn's been pretty adamant that he wants all the films to have their own distinct feel rather than the samey feel...
We're about to get a self-serious horror film in the DCU next year with Clayface. Gunn's been pretty adamant that he wants all the films to have their own distinct feel rather than the samey feel we got from the MCU. With that in mind I think the Reeves film doesn't really disrupt the DCU.
I think the main issue with Brave and the Bold is that they announced Muschietti was directing prior to The Flash releasing. I think that was to bolster The Flash, but when reception was bad and...
I think the main issue with Brave and the Bold is that they announced Muschietti was directing prior to The Flash releasing. I think that was to bolster The Flash, but when reception was bad and Muschietti’s directions was given the biggest blame it basically killed momentum for that.
James Gunn is an absolute machine. In the time between The Batman Part 1 and Part 2 (2022-2027), Gunn will have released:
Not to mention overseeing all the other DCU projects in the works. I wish I had his work ethic and creative drive.
Given their target of 2 films per year, DC's film slate for 2026-2027 looks full now (Supergirl, Clayface, Man of Tomorrow, and The Batman Part II), so it looks like 2028 will be Wonder Woman and The Brave and the Bold.
Unless Brave and the Bold gets canned and the DCU gets merged with the Reevesverse. I actually think Teen Titan is probably more likely than Brave and the Bold. They assigned it to the writer of Supergirl (who also got assigned Wonder Woman) and she’s rather efficient.
Yeah it's a weird situation. Publicly, Gunn has been pretty adamant about not merging the Reevesverse and that TBATB is still happening with Muschietti. It's just... strange how long it's taking. I think Gunn clearly respects Reeves and the art too much to force a merger but would probably be relieved if Reeves caved. Juggling two live action Batman universes simultaneously is going to risk oversaturation and possibly some confusion with the general audience.
The thing is, as long as Reeves doesn't plan to kill Bruce in Part 3 or end Part 2 on a massive cliffhanger, it shouldn't be a big deal to have Pattinson show up in other DCU projects. The bigger issue would be integrating the batfamily characters -- I'm really curious to see if any of them show up in Part 2.
Also: we know The Penguin series explicitly takes place in 2022, while Superman takes place in 2025. If The Batman Part II and Part III take place before 2025, then the trilogy is effectively a prequel, and Pattinson could show up as an older Batman in, say, Teen Titans or a Justice League movie. Again, though, those kind of timeline shenanigans might cause some confusion. Particularly if Part III doesn't release until 2030.
As for Teen Titans, Gunn has implied it's on the backburner for now since the script is unfinished and Ana Noguiera switched to writing Wonder Woman. Regardless, I don't think there's any way we'd get Teen Titans before DCU Batman debuts (whoever that ends up being).
I think the Reeves movie is too grounded to mesh well with the cartoony nature of the DCU. Like, imagine Pattinson interacting with Krypto or Eagly. Feels off to me. We’ve actually very briefly seen the DCU Batman in Dr. Phosphorus’s flashback on Creature Commandos. Ask yourself, does Dr. Phosphorus fit into the Reevesverse? We only have one movie to go off of but there were no Supernatural or Metahuman elements in The Batman. The Riddler, The Penguin, Catwomen, these are all grounded, human characters.
I think there’s plenty of room for both Batmen to exist in their separate films tho. I think we could get a Batman cameo in Man of Tomorrow.
We're about to get a self-serious horror film in the DCU next year with Clayface. Gunn's been pretty adamant that he wants all the films to have their own distinct feel rather than the samey feel we got from the MCU. With that in mind I think the Reeves film doesn't really disrupt the DCU.
I think the main issue with Brave and the Bold is that they announced Muschietti was directing prior to The Flash releasing. I think that was to bolster The Flash, but when reception was bad and Muschietti’s directions was given the biggest blame it basically killed momentum for that.