Present STATUS of upcoming DC movies..
It has been confusing for people
trying to keep in touch with what is going on in Warner Bros. movie UNIVERSE,
called DC Extended Universe (DCEU).
Here are all the movies & their plans –
Justice League (And Sequels)
Here are all the movies & their plans –
Justice League (And Sequels)
Release Date – November 17th,
2017.
A sequel to the movie was announced
for 4th June 2019, but
has been pushed back. Still in the cards is Man of Steel sequel, which Amy Adams had said is
at least in the stage for scripting.
Aquaman
Release Date - December 21st , 2018.
The standalone Aquaman movie, is
been the most stable slate. James Wan,
has stuck it out as the director. It’s currently filming. Despite reports that
he was considering leaving,
Shazam!
and Black Adam
Release Date - April 5th , 2019.
The movie was firstly set to come out
in April 2019, & plan appears to start filming early in 2018. David F. Sandberg is the director.
It was originally presumed that Black Adam, played by Dwayne Johnson, would be the villain
of Shazam, but
since been granted very own
standalone movie.
Cyborg
Release Date - April 3rd , 2020.
Cyborg’s standalone movie is supposed
to come out in April 2020. That’s all we know till now, note that Joe Morton is going to play Dr. Silas Stone.
Green Lantern Corps
Release Date - July 24th , 2020.
Just like Cyborg, Green Lantern Corps is going
to release in 2020 but not more for now. David
S. Goyer and Justin Rhodes
are writing the script based on idea from Goyer and Geoff Johns.
Justice League Dark
Firstly known as Dark Universe, which was very confusing when Universal decided to share monster verse same name, that was announced in 2013 with Guillermo del Toro at helm. He was replaced last year with Doug Liman, with whole new script surrounding John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Deadman, Zatanna, and Etrigan. Liman also left in 2017, leaving the project without a director.
Flashpoint
Strap in, kids, this one’s especially bumpy. A standalone Flash movie was announced in 2014 and for a long time it was presumed that Ezra Miller would play Barry Allen in a move coming out on March 16, 2018. That release date receded into the realms of fiction as Warner Bros. didn’t get its first choice of director—the team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, whom the studio signed to script the movie and was courting for the director’s chair. Then Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) was hired to write and direct. He left in 2016, with his script put in the hands of Dope’s Rick Famuyiwa. Who also left that year.
The Batman
Affleck - hired to play Bruce Wayne in Batman v. Superman and was then set to take the reigns behind the camera for the Dark Knight’s standalone movie. There was a script and Joe Maganiello was about to play Deathstroke.
None of these things is certain
anymore, including Affleck even staying on to play Batman. Early this year,
Affleck stepped down as director and was with Matt Reeves. He’s scrapped Affleck’s
script and recently managed to confuse everyone by When they approached me, what they said was, Look, it
is a standalone, it’s not part of extended universe. Which could just mean it’s
a standalone within the continuity of the DCEU but without the burden,
say, Batman v Superman had
to set up things for the rest of the universe. Or, given recent other
announcements about the direction DC and WB are headed, could literally mean a
parallel universe Batman movie. I think the former is still slightly more
likely. But, at this point, either could be true. It’s still unclear.
Batgirl
Joss Whedon entered DCEU in order to write and direct Batgirl. It will begin production in 2018.
Nightwing
This year, another Batfamily picture was announced centered on Dick Grayson’s post-Robin identity. Chris McKay was hired to direct and Bill Dubuque was hired to write.
Lobo and Deadshot
Neither of these movies officially exist yet, but Jason Fuchs was supposedly writing a Lobo movie at some point and Deadshot was rumored to get a Suicide Squad spinoff his own.
Suicide Squad 2
The sequel was formally announced at Comic-Con last month. Last night, The Hollywood Reporter said the movie was being fast-tracked and it could come before some other just-announced plans.
Joker Movie
This Tuesday came the news that Warner Bros. is expanding their DC slate with a Joker origin movie that falls outside the canon of the DCEU. So the movies will have several universes—the exact opposite of Marvel’s “it’s all connected” mantra.
This Joker movie is intended to be
made without Jared Leto, with Martin Scorsese producing and Todd Phillips (The Hangover) directing. It’s
supposed to be a “gritty and grounded hard-boiled crime film set in early-’80s
Gotham City.”
Joker and Harley Quinn Movie/Gotham City Sirens
In further Joker news, last night we learned that Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (This Is Us and Crazy, Stupid, Love) are in the final stages of being hired to write and direct a “criminal love story” with Leto and Margot Robbie back as the Joker and Harley
There was a brief moment when it was
reported by Deadline that this movie was going to replace the previously
announced Gotham City Sirens,
which has Suicide Squad’s
David Ayer attached to direct. That version of the story is gone now. Gotham
City Sirens will be another villain team-up movie and also have Robbie and Leto back
in their DC roles.
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