Superman: Legacy, standalone Batman without Robert Pattinson, Supergirl movies, and Wonder Woman series – James Gunn announces 10 new DC projects under his leadership

Under the new leadership of James Gunn and Peter Saffran, DC Universe is undergoing a change. On Tuesday, Gunn announced 10 new projects that are in the works including a new Superman movie sans Henry Cavill set for 2025, a standalone Batman movie which will be set apart from Robert Pattinson starrer, a Supergirl movie and several series including one prequel on Wonder Woman.

The Superman movie written by James Gunn is officially titled Superman: Legacy, a movie on Batman and Robin, and a Green Lantern mystery series. “DC Studios is unprecedented,” Safran said, as per Variety. “It is a standalone production entity and studio. It is the first time ever that everything DC related — film, television, live-action, animation, gaming — is all centralized under one creative vision, that of James and myself.”

Superman: Legacy is set to open in theatres on July 11, 2025, and will mark the start of the DCU. It focuses on Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing,” Safran said. “He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way. He is kindness in a world that thinks of kindness as old-fashioned.”

“Superman is for everyone,” Gunn said. “That’s a four-quadrant film that should speak to everyone worldwide.” Interestingly, a separate Superman is also being produced by J.J. Abrams and written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which is definitely in development and will exist outside of DC Universe.

The Gunn-written film will directly lead into The Authority which will be an ensemble movie about superhumans. He said this is a project he’s “really excited” to bring to life. As per the report, “The characters come from Wildstorm, which was launched in 1992 as an independent entity under current DC Comics chief Jim Lee and ultimately made an imprint of DC. The Wildstorm characters were later folded into the main DC comics universe when the company rebooted its continuity with the New 52 initiative in 2011.”

“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,” Gunn said. “There are very questionable people, like the Authority, who basically believe that you can’t fix the world in an easy manner, and they take things into their own hands.”

Added Safran, “They’re kind of like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. They know that you want them on the wall, or at least they believe that.”

Another movie announces is The Brave and the Bold which is the new version of Batman in the DCU world, separate from Pattinson’s version. It will introduce the Bat-family. Robin will be a part of it: Damian Wayne. At the press meet, Gunn described Wayne Jr. as “our favorite Robin,” “a little son of a bitch,” an “assassin” and a “murderer.”

“It’s a very strange sort of father-son story about the two of them,” Gunn said. Damian Wayne is the son of Bruce Wayne who isn’t aware of his existence for the first ten years.

Next up will be Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which is based on King’s comics run of the same title from 2021 and 2022, featuring Superman’s cousin, Kara Zor-El. “We see the difference between Superman, who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he’s an infant, versus Supergirl, who was raised on a rock chip off of Krypton, and watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible ways for the first 14 years of her life,” James Gunn said.

Apart from these projects, Swamp Things, TV animated series Creature Commandos focused on “Frankenstein’s monster teaming up with a werewolf, a vampire and a gorgon to fight Nazis in World War II”, Waller, Lanterns, Wonder Woman prequel Paradise Lost, Booster Gold have been announced.

Meanwhile, four DC Titles to release in 2023 include Shazam! Fury of the Gods starring Zachary Levi on March 17, The Flash starring Ezra Miller on June 16, Blue Beetle starring Xolo Maridueña on August 18 and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom starring Jason Momoa on December 21.

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