It’ll Be a Couple Years Before We See the First DCU Video Game, James Gunn Says, but First: Fortnite

DC Studios co-chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran have confirmed it will be a couple of years before fans see the first DCU video game.Speaking at a DC Studios presentation attended by IGN, Gunn and Safran said everything DC, from movies to video games, now runs up through the co-chiefs, which means they get to see projects at their earliest stages and work closely with video game development teams such as Mortal Kombat maker NetherRealm and Batman developer Rocksteady on character design and story.“We work incredibly closely with JB Perrette [CEO and President, Global Streaming and Games], who runs that division, and it's really the first time it's ever been this way at Warner Brothers,” Safran explained.“James and I sit with literally the guys that run the studios underneath JB, whether it's NetherRealm or whether it's Rocksteady, sit with them and talk about characters and stories that we're interested in and that they're interested in.”Gunn added: “We see designs for the projects in their very earliest stages.

We talk about those. We talk about when they're talking about what the story might be, we say, ‘Well, maybe you want to go this way because we're planning on maybe doing something with this character and so forth and so on,’ and help to deal with that.”“But it's been great, and we've enjoyed it enormously,” Safran said. “Everything had been so siloed, and now that's completely broken down, and it's been great.

Because it also applies to consumer products and experiences and everything that DC touches runs up through us now, which is awesome.”As for when the first game in the DCU will be revealed, Gunn said “a couple of years.”“Yeah, it's a couple years, but we've had some pretty active involvement in some stuff coming up,” Safran continued. “It's really interesting.”Warner Bros.

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