The brand new DC Universe will embody a thus-far-unannounced TV sequence being penned by filmmaker and DC Studios co-chief James Gunn.
On Thursday night, Gunn hopped on Twitter to sum up an apparently busy day, writing, “My day: wrote 1/3 of an unannounced DC TV show (😃); okay’d 100 VFX photographs, did reference appearing for Rocket, & gave enhancing notes for Vol 3; & had two large DC Studios conferences.”
Previous to being put answerable for DC Studios (fka DC Movies) with Peter Safran this previous November — and along with his work for Marvel — Gunn’s DC credit included writing/directing 2021’s The Suicide Squad in addition to its HBO Max offshoot, Peacemaker (which streamed January/February 2022).
Now, nearly a yr in the past, Gunn instructed Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast, “We’re engaged on one thing else now, one other TV present that’s related to that [The Suicide Squad] universe,” however he held again on sharing even the tiniest of particulars. So, let’s assume that that mission is just not the “unannounced” certainly one of which he now speaks. (Although its particulars, I suppose, stay unannounced.)
DC’s TV slate is in fact in all sorts of flux these days. Past no matter Gunn and Safran have deliberate as a part of the brand new DCU they’re outlining, large adjustments at The CW (and simply plain ol’ longevity) have whittled away on the once-robust Arrowverse. The Flash is getting into its ultimate season subsequent month, forsaking solely Superman & Lois and the yet-to-premiere, Batman-less Batman sequence Gotham Knights.
Over on HBO Max, each Titans and Doom Patrol are in the midst of their fourth seasons; Peacemaker was renewed for Season 2 some time in the past, although it’s been crickets on that entrance; Pennyworth Season 3 got here and went this fall with little fanfare; and the grownup animated hit Harley Quinn has a Valentine’s Day-themed particular forward, on prime of a Season 4 for which dialogue was way back recorded.
Within the pipeline, in the meantime, there’s the Inexperienced Lantern sequence for HBO Max that just lately went by means of a revamp; The Penguin, spun off of Matt Reeves’ The Batman; and so far as anybody is aware of, J.J. Abrams’ Justice League Darkish concept.
Devoid of any additional context from the person himself, what do you suppose Gunn is likely to be writing for the smaller display screen?
