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On Jan. 31, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn unveiled the studio's ambitious upcoming slate, which includes a caller Superman movie, a Wonder Woman prequel bid and plentifulness more.
DC Universe Slate REVEALED: Superman, Batman & More
James Gunn is wasting nary clip successful making his mark.
The Guardians of the Galaxy director, who took implicit arsenic co-CEO of DC Studios successful October 2022, has unveiled the studio's extended contented program for the years to come.
In a Jan. 31 video posted connected Twitter, Gunn announced plans for Superman: Legacy, which helium calls "the existent opening of the DCU."
"This is being written by me," Gunn revealed. "I'm successful the mediate of it. I'm having a large clip doing it. Superman volition beryllium released into theaters July 11, 2025."
Gunn besides announced a caller upcoming Batman movie called The Brave and the Bold, which helium referred to arsenic "the instauration of the DCU's Batman."
While Robert Pattinson volition not play Batman successful The Brave and the Bold, DC besides announced that Pattinson's instrumentality arsenic the caped crusader in The Batman Part II volition deed theaters Oct. 3, 2025.
On the movie side, DC Studios volition besides rotation out The Authority, based connected Wildstorm characters who, successful time, will "interact with each of our superior DCU characters," Supergirl: World of Tomorrow, which volition amusement a "much much jaded" Supergirl than fans are utilized to and Swamp Thing, which Gunn describes as "tonally extracurricular of the remainder of the DCU."
No merchandise dates for those films person been announced.
On the TV broadside of things, Viola Davis volition reprise her relation arsenic Amanda Waller from the The Suicide Squad movies successful Waller, being written by Watchmen's Christal Henry.
"It is simply a fantastic communicative that's retired of this world," Gunn said of the series. "I can't hold for radical to spot it."
The workplace besides announced plans for Paradise Lost—set connected Wonder Woman's birthplace of Themyscira earlier the events of the diagnostic films—which Gunn compared to Game of Thrones, Lanterns, described arsenic "like True Detective with a mates of Green Lanterns," and Booster Gold, a HBO Max bid astir "a loser from the future, who uses aboriginal exertion to travel backmost to contiguous time and go a superhero truthful that radical volition emotion him."
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"Storytelling is ever king," Gunn said astir the DC Studios philosophy. "It's each that matters to us. I privation to beryllium existent to those stories. I privation to beryllium existent to you guys and truly springiness you thing antithetic than you've ever seen before."
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