WB Had a Batman Beyond Movie within the Works, Now That’s on Ice

The nonetheless pretty latest hiring of James Gunn and Peter Safran to go up Warner Bros.’ DC Films arm has despatched some ripples by way of the already turbulent air of DC films. Wonder Woman’s third film was placed on ice forward of Gunn and Safran’s pitch to WB for his or her general plan, sequels for Superman and Black Adam could have gotten backburnered, and so forth. Things are at the moment so unsure that even films you’d anticipate to be a certain factor are not going ahead in the meanwhile, like a Batman Beyond film.

Yep, that was one thing within the works. Per the Hollywood Reporter’s latest Heat Vision information letter, a film for the futuristic iteration of the Caped Crusader isn’t going ahead in the meanwhile. Booooooooooo. A script was within the works from Batgirl and The Flash author Christina Hodson, one stated to have excited executives, however Hodson has now reportedly been advised to cease engaged on it. According to sources chatting with the Reporter, Michael Keaton would’ve come again as an older Bruce, and the hope was to additionally embody a romance with Catwoman, perhaps even going as far as to deliver again Michelle Pfeiffer’s model of the character from Batman Returns.

If you weren’t born but when Batman Beyond was on the air again in 1999 on KidsWB, the elevator pitch is that Batman (voiced again then by Kevin Conroy) retired and punk teenager Terry McGinnis (Will Friedle) took the mantle. The present gained a cult following again then, thanks partly to its connection to the DC Animated Universe, however its standing as part of Batman historical past since then has been…kinda difficult. Terry and his supporting forged had been built-in into the principle DC Comics canon, however that didn’t actually imply something till the aftermath of the New 52’s “Futures End” occasion, and he’s headlined his personal comedian within the years since. He’s nonetheless Bruce’s eventual son, however now the specialness of that’s diminished by the existence of Damian Wayne and DC probably not doing any time shenanigans to deliver Terry within the relative DC current day.

With how beloved Batman Beyond is, and the way a lot DC loves pulling that Batman set off, a film looks like a no brainer. Maybe it’ll nonetheless occur after Gunn and Safran’s pitch, however remember the fact that Gunn himself stated that the duo would doubtlessly make some strikes that will piss of us off. It may simply as effectively be {that a} Batman Beyond movie is one thing we don’t ever get to see.

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