James Gunn announced the new DC projects which will start in 2025, and for 10 years. Among them, a film on Superman, on Batman and Robin, on Supergirl, or even a TV series prequel to Wonder Woman.
It is James Gunn and Peter Safran who have been chosen by the DC Comics team to pilot its new audiovisual strategy. They have become, between them, the Kevin Feige of the cinematographic (and serial) universe of DC. The announcement of the first projects was expected for this January 31, 2023, which James Dunn delivered through a video posted on his Twitter account.
His job and that of Peter Safran is to make sure the DC Universe is ” well connected through films, series, video games and animation. That the characters are consistent, played by the same actors and that it works within the same story “, he first recalled. He also believes that the universe he has created over several years around Guardians of the Galaxy help with this task.
These projects will see the light of day from 2025 and this is a plan for approximately 10 years.
Superman, Supergirl, Swamp Thing… 5 DC movies
- Superman: Legacy : not an origin story, but an early exploration of management between superheroic life and human life. It will be written and directed by Gunn and Safran, but there is no casting information.
- The Authoritydedicated to villains with “good intentions”
- The Brave and the Bold : a new story with Batman and Robin, but new actors
- Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, a solo adventure of Superman’s cousin. It remains to be seen whether it will be Sasha Calle, as in the film Flash coming.
- Swamp Thinga fantastic and horrifying DC thriller that already got a TV series on HBO Max.
Paradise Lost, Booster Gold, Lanterns… 5 TV series
- Lanterns, which will obviously address the story of Green Lantern, but through two heroes, Hal Jordan and John Stewart. It would be oriented like a detective thriller (the green lantern with additional magical powers, therefore).
- Waller is a solo series for Amanda Waller (seen in Suicide Squad), with Viola Davis, and set between seasons 1 and 2 of Peacemaker.
- Paradise Lost would be a prequel to Wonder Woman, life on Themyscira before Diana, and oriented around the political issues of the Amazons.
- Gold Boostersuperheroes of the future armored with technological gadgets.
- Creature Commandos is the only animated series of the lot, with for example Doctor Phosphorus, Richard Flag Sr., Nina Mazursky, and all the rest of this commando well known to readers of DC comics.
